DeeDee, you bring up a good point about learnng to accept authority. He doesn't have this problem with everybody and not with other children. He does respect his coaches, piano teacher, and various other teachers....but the ones he decides not too (for some reason or another) watch out, we have serious issues. What do you do then??? We've talked his head off about respect, we've role-played, used rewards, used consequence, techniques from nurtured heart approach...It's very difficult when he truly feels that when they don't treat his ideas/feelings with respect, that he's just suppose to forget about it because they are older and in a place of power...that he's required to treat them with respect. He has always been very concerned about what he feels is just and fair. This is the same kid that on the first day of second grade, he decided to change all of the school's rules and presented his teacher with a new rule book. Does anybody else have this problem? Ideas are welcomed!
