My second grader has gotten SO mouthy. It started this summer and has only gotten worse. If I tell him to do something like set the table or any other chore he acts like I'm killing him and says I make him work all day. If we don't have time for a game in the evening I'm the meanest mother ever and no one likes him. His grandpa rescued a kitten and it gave my kids ringworm, the other day I went to put the lotion on and he was going to run away because he didn't want me to put it on. He's been telling my 3 year old that stuff is baby making the 3 year old not want to play with it.
Please tell me that it's just his age.
We've been firm with him about what is acceptable and what isn't but he keeps doing it no matter what punishment we try.
Does anyone have any good methods that I might not have thought of yet?
I am no expert in the raising children catagory, but I have recently put my kids on a "supernanny" kind of insentive program! My kids love race cars, so I bought big race car stickers and attached them to cardstock and then onto a magnet. Everytime they do their chores they get to move down the race track (simple design on a poster board.) Once they pass the finish line, they get major praise and a treat!
I have also seen supernanny have a board with 10 "lips" and they stay on the board, unless someone is a potty mouth...then they have to take one down! At the end of the week they got something special if all 10 lips were still there!
When my kids start to cop an attitude, I take away priviledges and make them write sentences..
Oh how they HATE to write "I will not talk back to my Mother" 50 times.... trust me, it doesn't take many times of making them do this before they decide to watch what they say. If they are ungrateful, I stop doing the extra things for them and then they figure it out. I am having the same issues with my son but he is almost 13 so it is a bit stickier but more or less the same discipline applies - he gets mouthy, I take away the PS2... he insults his sister, I make him pull weeds.....
I am a single Mom of 4 so it is important that I stand my ground now before they get bigger than me! 
When my boys start mouthing, which they've been acting up more lately, we first put them in timeout and expain to them how they are speaking and why it's wrong...even if we've told them 100 times!!!
If they're mouths continue they get privileges taken away, starting with the most prized privileges.
Good Luck! I hope it gets better!!!
BTW...it is his age, and he's being normally defiant as he will continue to do for as long as he lives, lol!!! But, you just sit your foot down and don't let it up....no matter what.......he'll get the idea once he sees you're not giving up!!! Hope the ringworm clears up!!
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