Hi Guys- wow wow wow-I stopped off at Bible gateway 2 seconds ago and did a search for rebellious child and couldn't find anything and then i come here and find the post before  this one-hve you ever felt like Jesus knows you've had so much chaos that you're dumbfounded and He decides to look in on you-like looking right over your shoulder. my p/n son won't (can't ?) follow the simplest rules (today drinking out of the oj jug-sounds picky of me i know but stay w/me). A.the rule is not his idea and B.he knows i don't like it. Lately instead of entertaining him with an argument when he chooses undesirable behavior i'll send him to his room so his N is't being fed by getting attention from any one. so i did and said sit on your couch and don't do anything else for a few min. Of course instead he dicides to rearrange his room . That way when he's corrected I look like the nutty one when he says  I got in trouble for cleaning my room. I went in his room and told him to sit. He began to insult me I said stop he said get the f**k out of my roon (well now...)I've as a last resort warned him that when anything foul comes out of his mouth directed toward me i'll tap his mouth (i've tapped my own mouth in frount of my 3 younger ones to let them know how hard it is and that i'm not hurting him). it went from the tap on his mouth to him telling my husband that when his ms  has progessed enough to have him in bed he would beat him up because 'that would be fair'   because my hubby is stronger than him now and has had to hold him down.. i'm enterested in what u all have to say-belrose777