As hard as it is, I hope you spend 95% of your energy encouraging what he does right. (I know, it's tough.) My name is Alex, and at 15 I was a lying, stealing, drinking, drugging jackass. Aside from my normal -type personality, my home life was a very poor example. My parents constantly criticized me from an early age. They were amazed when I fullfilled their prophecies. (Dropout, won't amount to anything, etc.) They almost were right. Fortunately by age 22 I was sober and starting to appreciate what they did right.