romz169

A little background to start.

DW and I started seeing each other 3 years ago and just officially got together and moved in with each other just under a year ago. We are now married and have a son of 5 months. She has a son (10 year old) that I am now a step father too. Before me she was with very little men and it was just her and her son.

The last year has been good, up until 8 weeks ago when we started planning our wedding. DS(10 year old) has started acting out in school. It seems like at least once a week he is getting into trouble. Not regular kid trouble but in-school suspension trouble. We are also getting reports from his teachers that his work is degrading. He has also talked about ending his life and hurting himself.

None of this behavior is exhibited at home at all. Around any of his family he acts just fine, this seems to only come up while at school.

We started with punishments, but they don't seem to be working. DW is getting him into consoling and not really continuing with punishment till we talked with his consoler.

How would you guys handle this?

Kaytee

I would think that if this is happening only at school then maybe the problem is there. Maybe he is being bullied so he is acting out. I would talk to the school and see about getting him to talk to a counslor about his problems.

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