Elenfair: Might we little people have a sample of what you gave the nimrod? It sounds as though he at least responds when you work on his attitude.
As distasteful as this may seem, is it possible that you could make something closer to human out of him? This is just a WAG on my part y’unnerstand, but the parents, at this stage of the game, just aren’t all that likely to change.
Would it even be worth your time to try at this point?
[sub]I’m thinking “fuck no” but hell, sometimes those impossible jobs pay off the best.[/sub]
He’s got some things better now - he picks far less on the younger sister, for one, and he responds well to my correcting him on it when he’s being an asshole.
The problem is that he’s fine for a day or so after I… erm… deal with him. The minute he’s had a few seconds with mommy, he’s back to his old ways, because he’ll whine to her, and she’ll tell him just how EVIL the rest of us all are.
I’m sure it COULD be worth my time, in the end, if I were willing to put up with two steps forward, one and three quarters steps back (sometimes, three steps back, depends who he interracts with.)
Beh.
Oh, and for the record, it’s gold he shits. And truffles, on good days.