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I love this kid - he knows what he wants and is able to get them without whining to his parents. I think the parents have done a pretty good job.
Sure did! With this type of enabling behavior at such a young age, who knows what might happen? He might be president one day!
Rather, what I'd take away (from a cursory level, anyways) is not his glibness and glaringly ostentatious demeanor-- it's his glibness and glaringly ostenation demeanor at such a young age.
Rarely would we encounter such a young individual with such brazen behavior that he feels not that he's merely able to operate with an adult's social capabilities, but that he's in fact entitled to operate in such capacities.
While I realize that this boldness and brashness can be jealously misconstrued as simple pomp... this kid has true (thought perhaps not intellectual) genius and is certainly nothing akin to anything as depraved as, say, a Paris Hilton.
I have to wonder if the attention he gets is because of his age. He certainly wouldn't get away with a lot of the things mentioned in the article if he were, say, 20.
My official diagnosis is that he is a Factor 1 psychopath exhibiting symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder for positive effect according to PCL-R Model of psychopathy.
Alex behaviour demonstrates a strong correlation with the known symptoms of psycopathy including: glib and superficial charm, grandiosity, need for stimulation, pathological lying, conning and manipulating, lack of remorse, callousness, poor behavioral controls, impulsivity, irresponsibility, failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions.
I recommend that he eats humble pie three times a day before he gets his just desserts, after all you are what you eat.
I'm off to pop a few jealously tablets.
He's like a tiny Paris Hilton. Except even more worthless, if that's even possible.