Thursday, February 12, 2009
I just may MANAGE to kill my brother
The biggest management problem I am currently facing is at home and involves my younger brother. My two brothers and I have been living on our own since about October and it has been a rough couple of months. My younger brother has no regard for other people’s living space. He decided he’d rather live in the communal livingroom instead of his bedroom and takes up the one room that has all of the houses amenities. Saying he is a pig is definitely an understatement. He refuses to contribute in any way to the household and I feel like I’ve become the mother of a teenager going through puberty. Getting him to work together with the rest of his family is the general management issue I am facing and I really see no solution in sight. My father used to try bossing him around and that never worked, so my attempt to politely beg him for a small favor in return for all the things I do for him has also failed to get through to him. I’m out of options and out of luck. I have unfortunately surrendered and spend all my time in my room with my laptop.
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He lives in the living room now??? What nonsense.
ReplyDeleteI really don't know what to say. I wish i had the right answer for you. Have you tried to behave just like your him. I am not suggesting that you be like him, disconsiderate towards the others. Mabey, in this case, may work out. Give him a little taste of his own medicine. try to step on his privacy, for a short period of time. Let him realise how the others feel by his disrespect. Good luck to you!
ReplyDeleteYou are certainly having parenting problems and I don't think you are one. Well, I will also invade his privacy as the previous blogger suggested. Maybe listen some of his conversations or things like that so you could actually find out what is really bothering him. Check if he is like that with everybody or only with you. You could also try to see how he is doing at school. If he is having problems there, you could ask him what is happening or arrange him an appointment with the school counselor (perhaps suggest that). Maybe like that he will tell you what is going on. If he is still refusing to open up and tell you, just make sure to let him know that you are there for him for anything he needs to talk to you about.
ReplyDeleteI know that my advice will probably sound a little bit too old or whatever, but as a parent that is what I would probably do in such circumstances. Remember that we all went through that. Ones more tough than others, but we were there. Also, remember that those years are the ones in which we do silly things without really thinking about them.
Hope my advice helped you and good luck with it.