With all the other chaos going on in their lives, only a relative few articles have mentioned Octomom Nadya Suleman’s oldest six children and how their lives have changed. Most predicted it wouldn’t be for the better, and that’s clearly the case. One of the kids viciously attacked his grandmother Angela with a knife, while Nadya sat there and did nothing. The National Enquirer doesn’t name which child it is, other than to say that the youngest boy, Caleb, 2, was also attacked by him. That leaves three other boys as possibilities.

The Enquirer says Nadya refuses to discipline the child for fear of angering him more. And she won’t let anyone else do it either. So instead of addressing the problem, she’s choosing to ignore what is clearly an extremely dangerous situation.

One of Nadya Suleman’s older children attacked his grandmother with a steak knife, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. Her son has also kicked his younger brother Caleb, 2, in the head – but the beleaguered Octo-Mom refuses to discipline him, nor does she allow others to do so, sources say.

“I’ve begged my daughter to get help for this child before he hurts someone, but she won’t listen to me,” Nadya’s anguished mom Angela Suleman revealed to The ENQUIRER in an exclusive interview. “He goes into wild rages and becomes uncontrollable. He went after me with a knife, and he’s thrown hard objects at me. But Nadya will not discipline him because she’s afraid of provoking him into even more of a rage.”

The boy exploded at his grandmother when she tried to discipline him shortly after the octuplets’ birth in January, said a source. “He screamed at Angela, ‘I’ll kill you!’ and grabbed a steak knife,” a family friend of the Sulemans told The ENQUIRER. “First, he began stabbing at her and then, when he didn’t connect, he began slashing at her wildly. Nadya, who rarely disciplines the children, just sat and watched.

“Angela finally managed to wrestle the knife away from the troubled child. But then he ran at her, kicking and punching.” Terrified, Angela – a 69-year-old retired schoolteacher – tried to escape her rampaging grandson by fleeing down a hallway. “But the out-of-control boy followed her, throwing punches at her,” said the family friend. “Angela ran into her bedroom, locked the door and stayed there for 10 minutes.”

Angela – who thankfully no longer lives with Nadya, 34, and her 14 children – believes her grandson is acting out because he’s depressed. “This boy was used to getting his mother’s attention. But now Nadya’s new house is full of new babies, and Nadya doesn’t have time for him,” she told The ENQUIRER.

[From the National Enquirer]

This poor little boy isn’t the problem. It’s the same as any other case where you see a child acting out: you don’t blame the kid, you blame the parents. Especially when the parents aren’t doing anything. It doesn’t take a psychologist to figure out the six older kids are not getting the attention they need. I’m sure the octuplets won’t either. They have one parent and fourteen kids. What are the rest of them going to resort to in order to get Nadya’s attention? And what will it take for her to actually react – if eve this can be ignored?

Of course this little boy is depressed – imagine how sad his life is. He’s got 13 siblings, 8 of which are newborns. It’s safe to assume that in the four bedroom home, he’s obviously sharing a room with several other kids, and that will probably only get worse in the future. He’s never going to get the positive attention he needs, unless someone outside the home does it. You want to hope for the best, but it’s hard to imagine how his situation could realistically improve. It’s probably safe to bet he’s acting out at school too – if so, hopefully his teachers can address the problem and get him some help. My heart just aches for this poor little boy.

Nadya Suleman is shown with some of her kids at the park on 5/5/09. Credit: Fame Pictures