The one thing I will tell you from watching our family. If you think you have a problem you address it aggressively and immediately. Don't wait thinking it will work itself out. I watched my niece and nephew not sent to therapy when they should have been. Denial was the method of coping in their home. Now they have much bigger issues. Especially the little girl who is now a very willful defiant teenager. And no not in the normal way.

If you see behaviors that seem out of the ordinary and don't get better with your own techniques you get immediate help from professionals who can help you cope. I think things would be very different for my sister's family if they had aggressively sought help when the kids were small and not waited until now.