He's bright, funny, kind and very, very brave. He has more confidence in his little finger than the rest of the family put together.
We're having massive problems with swearing, lying and beating up his older brother and sister.
We don't swear at home at all, this has come from school 
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We are at the end of our tether, and haven't a clue what to do.
He's well behaved at school and doing very well, then at home, he's either very good, or an absolute monster. I dread taking him anywhere, as he'll try really hard to behave, then all of a sudden it gets too much and he's back to demon child - very embarrassing in public!
He swears when he thinks we can't hear him - to older Ds and dd, and to other dc out and about - if we hear him he goes and has time-out, but he always denies saying it, even if we heard him.
He lies about other things too, and again, even if we have seen him doing something he shouldn't, he swears blind he hasn't done it.
If he ever gets frustrated - if we stop him doing something he shouldn't be doing - he'll start kicking out at anything/anybody around him. He never gets away with this behaviour, but obviously we're doing something drastically wrong, as he's getting worse.
I feel like he's the child all the others kind of look up to, in that respect for bad boys kind of way, but he rarely gets invitations to play, I think he's seen as too challenging.
At school, they never see this side of him at all. This week at home, I would say we've had this 50% of the time.
I think school are too soft about swearing, and don't pull it up.
We are strict about it at home, but it's not getting through to my wild boy.
My other dc make me feel like an amazing mother - we have the normal ups and downs, but we can sort it out, ds2 however, seems to have come along with an agenda to make sure I really know what a rubbish mother I am.
Please help!