Needing some advice with my insane 7 year old
Okay so i really just need some kind advice and help because I am really struggling. I am a 27 year old mom to a 7 almost 8 year old boy. I love him to pieces truly but it has been really difficult dealing with his behavior. He’s a good kid , he’s not violent or angry and he definitely has the knowledge of right vs wrong. I feel silly complaining about this knowing some parents deal with way more severe issues. However it used to be just me who was losing patience but now it’s my husband too. It’s hard to even do fun things with him at this point because he is beyond obnoxious and i’m not saying that in a mean way he’s genuinely obnoxious. We are a very sarcastic family but he takes it way too far. Nothing he says anymore is ever nice , it’s always jokes that are repeated quite literally 100 times a day. He is constantly making noises and it really does seem to be to try and get us to tell him to stop. He’s jumping on and off furniture, getting in our dogs face even though we have drilled it into his brain how he cannot do that.( our dog is not aggressive we just want our kid to be smart about how he behaves with animals). He doesn’t listen and can’t do anything without it being running , jumping , shouting out of nowhere. It’s just chaos pretty much all day. I don’t know how else to put it into words other than it seems like he’s going out of his way to be annoying, i know that’s harsh but that’s how it feels. i cannot even hang out with him anymore without him licking me or getting in my face , breathing heavy onto me , just really anything to be agitating. He doesn’t listen get punished and gets grounded and sent to his room to calm down but it just doesn’t seem to help long term. I miss my sweet boy and being able to do things with him and it’s gotten to the point where we just stay home because it’s even more difficult in public because i already get anxious around a lot of people these days so then his behavior in public just sends me over the edge. I feel so exhausted and the mom guilt is literally eating me alive to the point where i think it’s making me sick actually. I feel like i’m shouting all day because he doesn’t listen otherwise , sometimes he’s even trying not to laugh in my face while being reprimanded. I know that all the comments will say it’s ADHD, and at this point i know but i just really don’t want to put my 7 year old on such a heavy medication , i’m in vyvanse myself and i cannot imagine his tiny body being on something like this. I just need some advice that won’t turn my kid into a zombie , please.