Hi,
My little brother who is 9 years old has a terrible temper at home. When he doesn't get his way he spins off into a rage where he calls everyone who disagrees with him names and begins to get physical. Yelling at him only causes him to be upset for a moment and then he laughs in whoever is yelling's face. If you leave him alone to flip out on his own for a while, he chills out like nothing happened.
At school he is perfectly pleasant. His teachers have all liked him and he's never had any behavior problems at school besides having to remind him to focus on the lesson now and then. Homework, on the other hand, is a real pain with him. He'll rush through it for the sake of doing it so that he can move on to doing what he wants, but in the process he fails to read instructions throughly time after time and my mom makes him redo his homework until he gets it correct, which can take hours.
Our whole family is at a loss. We're thinking maybe he has some kind of chemical imbalance causing his hissy fits. Just today he had a massive fit because when my mom went to tell him it was time to come home from playing inside, he told her to "zip it" and ignored her. She brought him back inside at home and then he spiraled into a fit that lasted for about 15 minutes. During his fits there's absolutely no getting through to him.
What do you guys think?
Thanks.