Dad reports:
Mom and I are at wit’s end. I think we are both at the brink of wanting to just send Tommy away. We’ve even had discussions of sending him to his biological father. Tommy says he doesn’t want to go up there but during the trip Tommy seemed to be having a fine time.
This morning Tommy stirred easier but became irritated when I would not bring his clothes to him. Already I let him get away with rudeness, backtalk, disrepect and actions that regular kids would be punished for severely. Am I supposed to be his manservant too?
He became enraged when his bus arrived and slammed his fist down on our glass top stove to which I had to tell him not to hit our appliances and it ended in raised voices. When you are saying something Tommy doesn’t want to hear, whether or not he was speaking, he interupts you to yell, “Stop interupting me!” He makes you want badly to give him a belting.