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[quote=Anonymous]First, you are not alone.  Therapy is a good place to start, but in the meantime I recommend focusing on positive reinforcement whenever he does something that you like.  It could be something minor like cleaning up after himself after dinner or taking a shower and brushing without you needing to ask him to.  The logical parenting action is to scold and punish when your son does something wrong, but ignore when he's doing something right.  The consequence is that he gets attention for behaving poorly and therefore feels reinforced to continue it.  Ignore the negative behavior and praise the positive, but easier said than done.  I also won't agree with PPs that you need to drop the hammer because I don't know your kid.  Some kids can't handle hard care discipline and so you need to figure out ways that work for him.  Ideally, the key is to find out what is causing your son to misbehave and bother his siblings, for example.  The fact that he does it is the behavior and it's annoying as hell, but was led up to the behavior so you can shortcut it next time around.    [/quote]

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