Failure to MYOB Runs in the Family

My son is getting in trouble in school for being all up in everybody's business. And, ahem, I have no idea at all where he would have learned such behavior.

Last week, a classmate of his got lunch detention, and when he volunteered to write that troublesome student's name on the board, he got lunch detention, too.

His private speech therapist regularly comes out after group sessions and mentions that my son was the Rule Police, enforcing proper playing of games and otherwise running the room.

It seems to be getting more noticeable and more annoying as he gets older and louder, but getting into other people's trouble is nothing new for him. I remember his second-grade teacher telling me that he argued with her about whether his friend's time-out had gone too long. When he was a little bit of a thing, that sort of behavior was endearing. Now that he's a big deep-voiced teen, not so much.

And sometimes I wonder whether this is a side effect of my advocating for him. After all, I'm awfully involved in every single solitary thing he does. I keep up a steady patter of corrections when we're out in public -- part of being his protective, directive "external brain" -- and speak up for him if somebody does him wrong.

To some degree, he's just doing the same for the kids in his class or his speech group, letting them know when they're off-base, supervising disciplinary activities, talking back to authority when it needs talking back to. I'm sure there have been times teachers would have liked to give me lunch detention, too. (I was evicted from a lunchroom once. Does that count?)

Does your child have problems with MYOB? Share with your fellow bossy boots in the comments.