Well...S12 has been to counseling before, for anxiety problems (wonder where he gets that from??) once when he was 7 and once back in the spring, around the time his dad was diagnosed with cancer. In the spring he was having problems being in crowds, riding the metro link, heights..etc etc.
That's faded, but his pediatrician thinks all his headaches and stomachaches and sleeping problems, and even crying jags sometimes, are signs of depression/stress whatever.
So it's more than how H talks to him per se. I get to witness that for myself.
I will think about what you said though...maybe he's playing me somewhat...but when his dad is on him all the time, maybe he needs some extra attention anyway.
Also, back just before we had to stop with the counseling, the doc wanted to have a sitdown with H and me, and he was really angry about it, before anyone even said anything! He said we were paying her to fix HIM. And she had said the conversations about sports were to stop, that S12 had a coach and to limit our conversations to positive comments only. Well, he wasn't having any of that either...he was very angry about that as well. It's his JOB to critique S12 (he LOVES to say he's trying to HELP you when he's running you down. Funny how he doesn't need any "help") I am switching to a male counselor, because we had already reached the point where anything he didn't like that she said was because she was a "liberal woman." Bad enough that she was a woman! I think he'd let Sarah Palin counsel us...but that's about it.
H has some interesting ideas about women.
He'll say things about how stupid women are, and they shouldn't be allowed to vote (half kiddingly), and then he'll say, well I'm not talking about YOU.
