From friends I have spoken to it seems that 6 -7 year old boys stop listening to their parents and think they know best and answer back. Ok, so mine does too and its driving us crazy. He constantly ignores what we say even straight after we say it. Perhaps its a growth thing? We are sick of telling him off... am I expecting too much for him to actually stop answering us back and to do as he is told? Help!! How do we deal with this... its like he is in a world of his own, otherwise he is a good boy, always has been and it seems to upset him a bit that we are having to tell him off - but then he just seems oblivious to things we just said, even if he acknowledged what we said 2 seconds earlier.