Or - is there an exchange depot where I could swap him for a more rational one???
ooooh I think that the queue would be HUGE!! Many, many, many days recently I think I could've lined up there very easily! I feel exhausted from speaking most days. I feel so drained because I also have a teenager and it seems that the listening skills of both are very much on a par! Oh yay! NOT! I have tried, like you, the whole quiet gentle voice, eye contact etc. *sighs* I pray for patience and strength because there are days where I feel so pushed that it takes everything in my power not to lash out. Some days, like today I will admit (and yesterday too actually) where I do yell, I lose the plot - I feel like a pressure cooker to be honest! Part of it is I'm tired emotionally, physically and mentally at the moment and it's not helping at all.

I have no ideas at all at the moment, so will keep an eye on the replies!! Just know that you are NOT alone.

SA, might have to try that one myself. Today I did do the whole "mummy doesn't like it when...." will keep up that one and see if it does help.