I’m afraid my 13 year old son has mental issues that are going to mess up his life. He refuses to do his homework, he lies, he steals, he blames everyone else for his failures, and refuses to do anything to fix his life. I’ve taken all his privileges away from him, and we are considering sending him to military boarding school. I want to help him, but I am just so tired of focusing all our attention on trying to help him and ignoring his younger siblings who do fairly well on their own, especially when he wastes every bit of help and takes advantage of anyone who tries to help him. I am giving up, and I feel like I will regret this for the rest of my life, but I can’t do it anymore.
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Have you talked to him yet? At least try and ask him why he’s doing it? Maybe there’s a reason, where did it begin?
And maybe he’s just a regular kid.
They say in order to make most psychopaths, sociopathic kids grow up well you should instead of “detestify them” “embrace them”
try that, try embracing him for it instead. Not dramatically. Just say things like I’m proud of you, or good job once in awhile. And when he does something bad like steal, just let him do it.
Maybe he’ll learn.
Or maybe you can set him up with a prison appointment. Show him what prison is like when he gets older if he continues stealing.
Also I’m 15 so you might not want to listen to EVERYTHING I say. I am mature, but that does not make me the smartest person in the world. I am still a person who makes mistakes. But I will laugh about them in the future instead of regret them.
We are 4 brother,the most corrupted one is the older and my father blames him self and says that it is his fault because he didnt give the attention that my brother needed when he was a kid,give him more attention as much as he needs,military school teach you to kill and you dont want that,maybe he is just jealous of his younger sibling.
I really feel you.
Best of luck.