Hormones and behavoir

[zak frost]

Lizzy and anyone else with older boys...

I need some help/ideas. Beak is just being a total butthead. Please please please say that it is hormones. We have tried everything, but he continues to be a butthead. I so hope this just isn't his personality.

Actually, he got put on a timeout all day yesterday because his actions and being a butthead. Today, he seems somewhat better. Maybe, the long long long timeouts will work.

So, is it hormones? And, if so, when does it end? (Soon?)

Beak is 12 and will be 13 in February.

[WhoserMomma!]

Jay goes through that. :twitch

He is naturally a great kid, but he can be the biggest butthead! :gaah

I do believe it's a part of growing up to see the limits they can push.

Sadly, I don't know when it ends for boys...I'm still going through it with you. :sigh

We will have to hold each other.



:snicker

[TheBudsMom]

Caleb will be 15 in Feb and is still a butthead most of the time :cry
He is a good kid but he, like most people, needs a time out from time to time. Sometimes when he is smarting off or picking on his sisters I will send him to his room for a couple of quite hours. It does seem to help :yep

I do think it is a stage and them trying to adjust to all the new changes they are going through but dang! I am the only one allowed to be PMS'ing in this house right now :tantrum

[zak frost]

Dayna:

Does he have any "changes" yet?

Beak's voice is changing and he has, um, "bodily changes". He is 5'6" and weighs about 106 lbs. People keep thinking he is 14. And, I am like, nope...12. Of course, then I get the "oh my, he's a big boy." I feel like saying, "Really?" with a real questioning look on my face. Well, either that or slapping them on the forehead...

[WhoserMomma!]

I do think it is a stage and them trying to adjust to all the new changes they are going through but dang! I am the only one allowed to be PMS'ing in this house right now :tantrum
LOL! It's sooo bad at my house with Sammi and me PMSing at the same time! Jay really doesn't PMS. He's usually a smart anus! :shakehead He loves to pick at people and make Daniel scream like a DANG GIRL! :gaah Sorry :para

Does he have any "changes" yet?

Beak's voice is changing and he has, um, "bodily changes". He is 5'6" and weighs about 106 lbs. People keep thinking he is 14. And, I am like, nope...12. Of course, then I get the "oh my, he's a big boy." I feel like saying, "Really?" with a real questioning look on my face. Well, either that or slapping them on the forehead...

Jay won't be 13 until June and he hasn't went through any changes yet! :para When do they start to change??? I was raised with 4 sisters...Dennis don't remember! I think us girls only remember that stuff! LOL!

[zak frost]

Lisa:

Oh god... He is 15 and it is still happening. Argh!!! I am so screwed!

I have Beak and then I have the twins following up behind him.

You know, that rubber room is looking better and better all the time.

[TheBudsMom]

I really think things started going crazy with Caleb at about 13 :para

[zak frost]

Well, everyone is different. Usually, it is somewhere around 12, but some are later and it is more like 14. You are so lucky.

[Iggy]

My brother was a butthead roughly between the ages of 12 and 23 :para

[Bare Maiden]

My boys are butthead now sometimes....I am so screwed when they are 12 :gaah

I hope things start to improve for you Zak...or you are in the rubber room by the time the twins hit it...

[Jennifur]

My brother is still a butthead at 33 :para Thank goodness he lives in Houston :crack

[SnowBirdie]

My brother was a butthead roughly between the ages of 12 and 23 :para

Umm...I was going to say that was about what my son did.:roll

[zak frost]

Oh great... Until 23... He may not live until 23 at this rate.

Digging a big hole and burying him up to his neck sounds like a good idea most of the time.

[Blended]

Oh man, I'm in denial that my kids will ever go through puberty. I was the worst kid once I hit 12. I didn't get better much better until 20ish. I know I'm going to get payback and more so with Brooklyn. She is so much like me. :sigh I feel for you. :comfort

[Dixie Momma]

oh crap. My oldest will be 10 in a few days and he's already been moody and irritable a good bit of the time and he doesn't have any "changes" yet, but he's beginning to get some odor in his pits. :kickcan

I am worried about how bad this is going to get.

[zak frost]

10 was the worst year with Beak. It was horrid. He was not listening to me at all. Now, is is better, but he is just a butt. You know, a fit when they are 2 is cute. A 12 year old having a fit is so not cute.

[LizzardFace GizzardBreath]

:comfort If it helps, I hear girls are worse teenagers than boys

[zak frost]

Good thing I have three boys then if they are driving me crazy already...

:twitch I can't even imagine if they were all girls.

[Smidget]

ugh i am SO not looking forward to three teenage girls! i was EVIL as a teenager...from 12 till about 17. And A is JUST like me so far :twitch

[zak frost]

I have been jokingly threatening to move out when they all hit puberty. You know, I just might. Leave their hormonal butts with DH.

[Smidget]

i told DH when they all hit puberty he's gonna have to leave for a week every month. shoot, i may have to leave for a week every month :para

[Double Blessings]

i hope it is not too bad for you all!:hugs

[zak frost]

My guys all started wearing deo about 10. Actually, I think the twins were 9, but they stink more or something. Maybe it is the stench of both of them together.

When they first started wearing it, they all wore crystal deo.

[TheBudsMom]

Do they ever start caring about their looks (ie clean clothes, clean hair, brushed teeth, and no bo)?

[Blended]

I have been jokingly threatening to move out when they all hit puberty. You know, I just might. Leave their hormonal butts with DH.
I'm counting on my Dd to say she wants to live with her Dad at that point. I'll be like.. see ya :crack

[zak frost]

Well, house rule is that you have to bathe every few days or before we go somewhere. Also, if they played outside, then they have to bathe when they come in.

At home, I don't care how long they wear their clothes, but if I ask for them, they had better strip naked quick. Going out, they are required to be presentable. They have "good" clothes for going out in public and "play" clothes for around the house.

If they do not brush their teeth enough (after sweets, after meals, and before bed) and they have cavities, they have to pay me back for the fillings.

[Iggy]

You know, I was thinking about this, and my mom and I agree that my bro seemed to go through the worst of the buttheadedness from about 12 to 16. After that he leveled off a bit. And the bathing thing, I remember my mom lecturing my brother to shower: "Take off your clothes. Get in the tub. Turn on the water. Use soap. Soap your entire body. Rinse it off. You might have to do that twice. Dry off." If she didn't do that, he sometimes would just turn on the water and stand next to the tub, or get in and "rinse" without actually using soap, or he'd just wash his hands or whatever. Damn he was gross :lol My brother played sports and did a lot of camping too, so he was always really dirty. Around 16 is when he started having girlfriends. It was like something clicked for him, "When my sisters tell me I stink, other girls don't come near me either. There may be a correlation between being clean and girls not finding me disgusting." :snicker

He's almost 28 now and he's still a butthead a lot of the time though :para

[WhoserMomma!]

:comfort If it helps, I hear girls are worse teenagers than boys
:twitch :twitch :twitch
I can't believe Sam is going to be 15 this month. I love that child...LOVE HER...but :twitch :twitch

Do they ever start caring about their looks (ie clean clothes, clean hair, brushed teeth, and no bo)?

Jacob has somewhat started. Daniel has, but he has his Dad's OCD about it. :para Jacob will take a shower if I ask him only 2x! :woot He also LOVES cologne! Maybe a little too much :para

[Dixie Momma]

Jonathan will "shower". He'll stand in there for hours if we let him... but we still have to remind him to actually "bathe" with soap and shampoo. :gross

He has a girlfriend, but we only see her a few times a year, so I guess she isn't much of a drive.

He did tell me he didn't want to eat too much and get fat, though, because she wouldn't like him anymore.

I need to look into deodorant I guess. :sigh

[Dixie Momma]

..and I will have 3 hormonal eating machines and 2 bitchy girls. :skeert

[Iggy]

Military school :yep