| No Images? Click here  I know I’ve written before about getting kids to listen. This week is not about that. It’s about when your kids *hear* you — they’re actively looking at you as you tell them something — but they have an almost pathological reaction to do the exact opposite of what you’ve just told them to do. Which leads me to my six year old and his new favorite thing to do. And not only is it worrisome on its own, but my three year old is watching his older brother and copying his behavior. When I ask him why he’s actively not listening, he just shrugs his shoulders and says he doesn’t know. I’ve read a handful of books on talking to your kids, but I don’t recall any chapters on What To Do When Your Kid Might Be A Sociopath. What frustrates and scares me most, I think, is that this is the first time where I feel like he’s slipping away from me. ‘Is this the moment,’ I think to myself, ‘when I lose him for good?’ As a mom of two boys, I have a fear of losing them, to spouses later on, sure, but more immediately to peer pressure, media and so on. I need to know that I can get through to him — that I haven’t lost him and that this just a navigable phase. So, dear fellow parents, please help me. Have you been through this? What’s worked? What’s not? Drop me a line at katea@huffpost.com. And if nothing else, please know that I’m going through it with you.
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