The Know-It-All

Effects: How does my child’s behavior affect other people at home and in school?

• Family and classroom conversations are monopolized.
  
  
• Demands are made on the time of others.
  
  
• Parent, teachers, and other children are irritated.
  
  
• Other children know their responses are likely to be answered or contradicted by the know-it-all.
  
  
• Peers like to see this child put down or put in his or her place. When the know-it-all fails, others are happy.
  
  
• Parent and siblings may be threatened by this child's know-it-all attitude.
  
  
• Individual participation is restricted because other children feel intimidated.
  
  
• Other children like to urge this child on because they get excitement from seeing a teacher, parent, or another child put down by the know-it-all's behavior.
  
  
• Resentments can build among children and parent.