GEEZ... TALK ABOUT HAVING TOO MUCH PRIDE

Oh my word hun, I can so sympathize with you there. My son is very prideful, and learned it from my bloomin' ex! The 2 of them have to always be right and it makes me nutty. I am currently trying to get that crap out of my son. Because my son will not cry, he will get angry. I have no idea how these little versions of ourselves can be so head strong. LOL

See my husband and I are very laid back and easy going. I don't know how this littleguy got like this.
I can't help but laugh at times because he is sitting there angry and all he can do is cry.

jace is like that lol

wow...at 10 years old??

Ya my boys can be this way.
I feel it is how they feel about themselves, not much self confidence maybe? It take a big person to admit when there wrong.
Then of course knowing it is ok to be wrong. Heck no one is right all the time, right?
Wish him and you well!

sounds like a stubborn little guy who is a adorable!

lol. My 2 soon to be 3 year old son does that at his age and i let him know it is not right all the time, maybe i can knock some of the strange pride off before he get to the age where it wont be possible. lol. You have one of them in a family.

PIF

Fear of failure, maybe? Some people are actually AFRAID of being wrong. Maybe let him know that one has to be wrong a few times before they will learn how to be right, and that being right takes practice. I type 100 words a minute, but I wasn't doing that when I was his age!!! LOL No way, far from it. It took PRACTICE for me to get up here.

Anyway, let him know that no matter how wrong he is, and no matter how right he is, you, Daddy, sister and brother will love him just the same, and that he should love himself, just the same.

I had issue with someone, growing up, who would scare me (verbally) when i got something wrong. I ended up just avoiding this person, and doing things my own way, so that no one else was involved. That way if I was wrong, no one was there to bug me, and I figured it out on my own, and if I was right I was right. I dind't make a spectacle of that either, because I feared that if the person approved of me when I was right, he'd only yell louder when I was wrong.

So let your son know that you will LOVE him whether he's right or wrong, and that any critical words you give him when he is wrong will be constructive, and only to help him learn how to be right, the next time.

Good advice, Leah.
; )

Such great advice here~

Our 22-year-old son is never, ever wrong....or so he thinks.....actually, he's gotten quite "arrogant" and i don't know how to handle it/deal with it so try to ignore it....he's always telling me "Mom" of ALL of my shortcomings.........gosh, it's really incredible that a mom who is the farthest in the world from being perfect, has such a "perfect" son (yeah, right!). I get soooo sick of his "attitude" problems....and NO, there is NO way of talking to/rationalizing with a 22-year-old, either. At that age, they know everything, Mom's just a stupid idiot who knows nothing!

Yep I remember being 22- I knew it all. lol
It wasn't till I got married and started having kids that I realized- I really don;t know it all!

Didn't really go through that with my sons. Guess I was just lucky.

HH

i only have one right now, and he is alot to handle!

My son wasn't like that at all. Odd, because his father sure was.

could it b the y chromosome - j/k - helping hands

it is amazing how strong their little personalities can be from birth.
HH

Very headstrong : )

I hope he does not have to learn his life lessons the Hard way. HH