I've written before about my stepson 12 who doesn't listen and needed advice on how to handle him. Last night was the most awful experience! He has been living with us since his Mom is ill...he doesn't listen, lies, talks back, has to be right etc. Last night he was in a mood, he received detention from school for not listening and disrupting his classroom and got mad that i couldn't leave work to get him after detention, so it was postponed. I then suggested he wear jeans instead of shorts because it was cold out and he slammed the door and gave attitude. He demanded to call his Mom who doesn't want him calling her everytime he gets mad. We asked him to wait until after, he continues, we punished him, sent him to his room, he refused, 10 plus times, Dad finally had enough and took him by the arm to put him in his room, step son went wild, swearing and attacking his Dad, dragged his Dad on the floor of his room kicking him and hitting him, ripped his shirt even, step dad spanked his behind telling him to stop...first time EVER Dad had spanked him...I had to push stepson off of his dad...he then said we "beat the shit out of him and would make sure we got in trouble for it". next thing we know, he snuck out of the house, went to the neighbors, claiming we beat him, called his mother and had the mother call the police!!!! We had to discipline him, he was out of control...the mother would not even talk to us about what happened, just took his story of he was beaten and kicked which was not the case at all. We told the police the truth, no one was arrested thankfully, but the mother came and picked up the son. Now what do we do? The boy will now call the police when he doesn't get his way and lie??? I am beyond disgusted that he would go this far. Any advice? This child needs serious help!! TY!