Defiantly Disrespectful

            So, my 11years old calls another student a pussy. He yanks a pillow from behind a kids head while he was in the reading corner reading a book causing the child’s head to hit the wall. When the boy goes to tell the teacher about the incident, my son calls him a p****. My son swears that he called the kid a punk but the teacher swore she hear p****.

What does a parent do when their child’s principle calls them up and says “I regret to inform you that your son is being suspended from school for calling another student a p****. My first reaction was “what the f***”.  “I’m going to whip his a**”, but I’m a Christian and I didn’t want the school to think that he got that language from me. So instead I maintained my cool, apologized for my kid’s behavior, thanked the administrator for informing me then assured her that I would get to the bottom of the issue.

Where did he get that language from? Who talks like that? Who does he think he is? A child of mine, behaving that way? Not possible! Oh… did I forget to mention that on Sunday he told my mother that she made him sick because she wouldn’t give him some cookies. Oh…and he was extremely disrespectful to his step dad and even tried to fight him. So what is a parent to do when they have a defiant disrespectful eleven year old? The law says that you can’t whip him, the doctor says that there is nothing wrong with him, and I personally think that a demon has possessed him because none of my other children behave this way.

I don’t use profanity (much) around him, I’ve never used the P-word in the presence of my kids, and I monitor what he watches on television, so where is this coming from. For some reason my son does not respect authority. He does not like to be told what to do or being yelled at. Who does he think he is? He has even gone as far as telling me – the women who gave birth to him, carried him for nine months, raised him – to P-L-E-A-S-E get out of his face. That’s right, he said please. Yes, I almost caught a charge. Yes, he is still alive by God’s grace and mercy alone.

My eleven year old son is so defiant and disrespectful. I feel like the only option I really have at this point is to PRAY.

Loretta M. Green-Warren©