Thank you all for your thoughts and suggestions (and empathy). We've had a crazy few weeks so sorry for the delay.

DS reads at roughly high school level. He did like the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books. I'll look at the others.

Bought a copy of the Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child book aeh had recommended a few months ago. I had a library copy then but think we need to own it. Fortunately, DS isn't all the way to the right on all the scales, but I'm pretty sure we have temperment mismatches with each other (and DS/DH even worse). Now if only I could figure out a "natural consequence" for throwing himself on the stairs and refusing to go to his room for a timeout...

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