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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm assuming that you have taken all the electronics away from for that remark. If you haven't, then it's no wonder he is walking all over you. If you've done this already then my heart goes out to you. Does his father get involved at all?[/quote]

We've grounded him, taken away his instruments, his sports practices, his electronics. He does not care. He reads, I take his books away then he naps. It's more than being spoiled, it's like he's just testing us and I am not sure where to go from here.[/quote]

I would recommend family therapy--it sounds like you're in a power struggle with him.  In your current approach, he holds the cards because you care and he doesn't.  I think that upping the punishment may up his resistance--sounds like it would take a lot to get him to "crack." He may be depressed, or he may not be.  Did he seem different from your other kids before he hit the teenage years?  He may have felt like he didn't fit in to the family.  The approach that worked well for your other kids didn't work for him.

As far as trying to get him to "wise up" about college, etc., is there an adult he gets along with who you can enlist to talk to him?[/quote]

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