He might be tougher than I thought

I really planned the "punishment" to hurt, I really wanted the "punishment" to make a long lasting impression on Bubba.

I am not sure it did.

If it did, that boy can lie and act, cause he didn't really seem phased at all.

He sat in his room all weekend.  He was allowed out to eat (and to use the bathroom of course), which he milked the hell out of.

I've never seen it take someone over one half hour to eat one hot dog.  I must also say, he had a BIG appetite all weekend.

He saw his opportunity and he took it.

There were so many times when I wanted to break, to let him out of his room.  He missed out on so much, but that boy doesn't know when to quit.  He slammed doors, he threw anything he could on his way back to the room.

It made it just a little easier to stick to the grounding.

I did "cave" and let him off Monday morning.   It just seemed fruitless at that point.  I don't think it was making the impact on him that I wanted it to.

When others would ask how being grounded was he'd respond with, "OH, it's fine." or "GOOD."

As infuriating as it was, I really did question if it was any kind of long last affect at all.

I guess time will tell.

He will start seeing a counselor this summer.  I can only hope that the inappropriate talk is being speared by playground talk.  I can also hope that talking to someone will help with his other anger issues.  I know that it will help me with insight on what is going on with him and how to better parent him.

Man he's tough.  I don't know if this is karma or what, but I will get this figured out and continue to do the best I can.

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Making this even more difficult, it's like a rock and a hard place. 

You are being told your son is lying.  Three others say he is lying.  He throws himself on the floor proclaiming his innocence.  There is nothing more that I want to do than to believe him.

What if he is telling the truth and I don't believe him?

What if in the future something does happen to him, something bad and he doesn't tell me because I won't believe him again?

Even disciplining him on the stuff he is admitting to lying about?  One being that he saw a movie at his dad's that then led to the drawing.  I caught myself saying, "Do you know the trouble you could get your dad in lying about stuff like that?"

I stopped mid sentence, because IF for some ungodly reason something does happen at his Dad's and he's too afraid of getting his Dad in trouble.  It's so difficult.

Anyway, that's where we are...and it's not easy, or fun, but hopefully it will get resolved.