time she stepped into our office with her eight-year-old son, Dillon, in tow. As she recounted her problems with Dillon, her tone grew increasingly negative. “He’s never happy unless he’s making somebody else miserable,” she complained. “He picks on his younger sister until she blows up at him. When I tell him to leave her alone, he goes off like dynamite. He stomps his feet and screams at me. And discipline does nothing. I yell, I scream, I take things away, I ground him, I spank him … absolutely nothing