We have a moody little 8 year old teenage boy. The tone is sometimes unbelievable. DH sometimes gets into shouting matches as if he actually were thirteen or above and I have to calm them both down. In his case, we know it's the tension leaking out from school where he is among the well behaved group suffering from very ill behaved classmates but I want to refuse it let these kids, by proxy, set our whole family on edge. It's not easy because all "consequences" make the tension worse. Really, he needs time in, calm adult attention, no siblings, the right kind of stimulation AND the food he just cannot concentrate on and is rude abot, but sometimes we simply cannot provide that.
