How Do You Spell That?

Wow! Thanks for sharing, I had no idea. Good luck to you both.

Thanks Lynne. Honestly, I put that up after someone said my wife and I were mistreating Tyler. We're honestly very close to sending him back to the state because he is impossible to live with. My greatest fear (may be unsubstantiated) is I wake up to Tyler trying to harming one of us while we sleep. He's hitting puberty and all of the joys that come with that coupled with his defiant behavior make it impossible to function normally. For me, it's extremely hard to stay cool and collected after he's refused to mow the lawn, or pissed on his floor, or smacked his little brother around.

My latest favorite is the "wrestling" he is doing with one of our neighbor kids. Tyler suffers from an inflated sense of self, thinks he can take anyone (not just normal bravado, he thinks he can take down his former Tang Soo Do instructor with what he knows....which is pretty much nothing). He keeps getting his butt whipped by one of the neighbor boys (which he comes running to us asking permission to do it....he'll do anything else on his own, but for this he needs our permission for some reason) and then gets his ass kicked in about ten seconds. After the "match" is over, he'll come in crying saying it was our fault, we forced him to do it, etc. You know, writing this, it makes sense for him. He doesn't want to do it to a point, but our "permission" pushes him over the top. Ugh....I really dislike this disorder.....

Having a kid hit puberty in any walk of life sucks, I can't imagine a kid with other problems too.