Originally Posted by FlyingNimbus  Hey guys, long time no see.
Well I am officially ashamed to be related to this kid.... Mmm maybe that's a bit harsh but what he's been doing has been seriously making me angry.
So my cousin who is 12 years old has been staying over with us of course with my aunt, for the past 2 weeks, he leaves in a few days now... But he's seriously agitating the (volatile) mixture.
He's obsessed with trains(which is fine, it's just what he does with them) and the little jerk is purposely chasing the dogs with them, stomping on the floors near them, tail pulling, startling them on purpose, etc... I've been keeping my dog in my room (which has little space now) and only take her out to do her business and an hour at most of outside supervised with the kid not able to go out.
The other day I caught him throwing trains near the dogs to startle them. The dog he harasses the most is my mom's dog which is a 20 something pound cocker spaniel poodle mix...
I've been consistently telling him to not do things and to stop and I sit down and explain things to him but the little imbecile just keeps at it. I even have him repeat back what I say to him a few times to make sure he actually heard me and was paying attention.... Thing is, he does these things when we're not around. Like the moment I go to the bathroom and I am there for even a few minutes I can already hear the noise of the dogs frantic barking, etc.
Honestly I kind of deep down I kind of want the dogs to bite the crap out of him so he understands what he's doing is bad. I suppose some of you may not like me for admitting to this- but I just feel frustrated.
I remove the dogs from his prescence most of the times because of this but the dogs dont want to be cooped up in a room, which is very much explainable. I want to be able to give them free roam of the house.
My mom also notices him when he does it and she takes the dog away, and when he apologizes later on she lets him play with her again but he repeats. I may come off as paranoid but I can clearly tell he has no actual remorse over it.
Why? Because when I was his age, and I did something bad I had the same stupid little grin he's giving. The only difference is, that I never teased, tormented or abused animals like that. I may have accidentally startled some accidentally but never on purpose unless they were doing something self-endangering...
Now for those of you who may think he's not old enough to know at the very least that what he is doing is bad, mean and just downright evil-- he's smarter than he lets on, you were 12 once and just think back to those times. Did you purposely like to bother animals?
I have been speaking to him constantly about it, he does it often enough a day that I can tell that he just didnt forget.
He's not even my kid, or my problem but when he's doing things to bother or hurt our animals that's when I stepped in. This same kid used to have a pet turtle once(I dont even understand why they bought him one as he was 6) and the little arseling killed the turtle within the day because he kept using it as a car.
I just don't understand why would anyone do this, or if he's just a psychopath and we don't even know it. I mean the turtle thing I get it- he was 5-6 and that was more on his parents fault, but he's not a baby/toddler/super young kid anymore.
I've met plenty of other kids who had better common sense than he does and weren't actually cruel.
I can't even give him a slap on the wrist(Figurative speech-- meaning I cant ground him) as he's not my kid but I have been feeling like disconnecting the internet, tv, etc for him for the time he spends here until he learns to behave.
All in all, I just wish he had more respect and care for other living beings. Being such a spoiled pampered little arseling isn't healthy for him or his parents. |