[ SECRET POST #3146 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3146 ⌋

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OP

[(Anonymous)]

I bought him a toy the first time I met him and we played. I do sort of try to bring up things that might interest him. But as I said, while I feel awkward around him, he's not badly behaved towards me.

He just constantly feels the need to be at the center of everyone's attention. And while apparently it got worse after his parents split up, things were bad before that too.

Maybe he feels the need to 'perform' because I, a relative stranger, am there. Or maybe I just catch him at bad times. I'm usually there for dinner, afterwards he pretty much goes straight to bed. I doubt that's his favorite time of day.

Re: OP

[elialshadowpine]

Nope, you pretty much caught the worst time of the day for kids in general, right after waking up from school. I say this having lived with two kids only very slightly older, and from remembering vividly my sister at that age (my parents completely gave up on trying to force her to a bedtime because we were homeschooled, when we got up didn't really matter, and it just Was Not Worth It; I successfully argued into being allowed to stay up later because I was 5yrs old and being told to go to bed at 10pm when she was often staying up until midnight or later... UM, NO... I'd deal with the rest of unfair advantages she got, but that one was a hard line). IDK what it is, but dinner + bedtime were always stressy.

Especially true if he complains about bedtime, and maybe normally gets away with staying up a bit later, but knows he won't because guests are there, and he has to go to bed on time because the parents want "adult time", not kid+ time, with their friend. This is a pretty common thing.