Good Parents, Is Your Child a Bad Seed?

July 26, 2010— -- Eleven years ago Jodi Richardson had one of the happiest days of her life when her first son came into the world.

"It's kind of a wild experience because the kids don't come with an instruction manual and then all of the sudden, here you've got this little being that's totally dependent on you," Richardson told "Good Morning America."

But even before he was out of diapers, Richardson realized she needed help with the boy's ugly behavior. At first she thought it was the "terrible twos" when he would lash out at her, especially when a baby brother came along.

While Richardson has tried everything to get her boy under control and explain his behavior, according to one expert the answer is as simple as it is cold -- and one parents rarely are willing to accept: he just might be a bad seed.

"At one point I went to the library and I got a book, 'Your 3-Year-Old: Friend or Foe?'" she said. "I remember when my son called me a 'big, ugly girl' when he was 3. It was just like 'ahh!', shot to the heart there."

As the years passed, Richardson said her son's verbal assaults grew harsher.

"He said, 'Well, I wish you were dead and I wouldn't even come to your funeral,'" she said.

Now, at 11-years-old, she says he's beginning to threaten her physically.

"Just body posture, and he'll come up and kind of get u pin my face and [say,] 'What are you going to do about it, mom?'" she said.

The child's bullying in school has gotten him suspended several times and other parents have confronted Jodi about his aggressions and her parenting.

"It's embarrassing and pretty much every day you think, 'Well, what have I done to bring this on, or what am I doing wrong?'" she said. "Why am I raising a bully? I am trying so hard."

Even though Richardson's other son is perfectly behaved, she questions her parenting. No kind of discipline seems to work. She and her husband spent thousands on child psychologists and testing, but the boy's never been diagnosed with any kind of physical or emotional issues.