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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 13 year old son has always been a handful.  Moody and impulse control issues.  Generally, he's a good kid at school and a very volatile kid at home or in sports.    It was bad from 4-8 better 8-11 and -'11-13 getting pretty bad around here.   He hit in trouble at school and lied to us about the situation.  We defended him to the school who informed us of a far different story.  When we discussed very calmly and with empathy after school tonight, he went into a rage.  Throwing things, terrible language and insults, took a baseball bat to a few framed pictures in his room , I think he may have peed on the carpet in his bedroom (no joke) than took off with the dog fur half hour.  Now sitting in room not talking but not in a rage.  How to reach him?  We are reasonable good parents, no issues like this with other children.  Honestly, I don't know what to do anymore.  These kinds of episodes happen about once a week sometimes more and can be triggered by fairly minor things ( time to get off the computer and take a shower) etc all advice welcome.  [/quote]

Since you already know that he has impulse control issues, that is enough reason to start with at least a psychologist.

You'll need to be more than just a reasonable parent- you'll have to be an informed parent who may need to make adjustments to your parenting style to accommodate your kid.  I say this with a lot of sympathy and support for you. I think that the changes I've made with myself as far as my expectations, my style of talking, etc. has made so much improvement with my relationship with my kid. You'll need to first find out what is going on with your kid. Mine has ADHD, anxiety, depression.  There is so much that goes in each one of those conditions and it also "alters" their perception of events- which looks like lying on the outside, but they have some other thought process that is going on in there that may not make sense to you at all. It's really complex, you'll need to do a lot of learning to be able to manage and be able to help your kid.

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