My brother just hit my mom in the face.

[MikeW]

Great stuff.

Kevin, i hope this fully resolves itself. At least to the extent it can. Things may have calmed down now, but i think there's more to it than this one outburst. There are definitely boundary issues and control issues between him and your parents. Like Scott said, counseling would help, but only if HE wants to change. It may be too late for him, but you can always try.

[Raf99]

I can't offer any suggestions that no-one else hasn't. But I remember this age. No-one or nothing helped. I sat in my room and cursed my mom, wished she'd die! I had no direction, no idea what to do, no-one to tell me how to fix my frustration. ( i grew up without a father, not counting the drunk step-fathers that lasted a year ).

Hopefully you two are close enough that he can trust you next time he feels 'frustrated'. He will always look up to you man. He somehow learnt that violence is the way and if anyone can teach him a better way to releive his frustrations, its you. Got a punching bag? Got some tips for him on how to de-stress next time? Since this is the first incident, now is the time.

Be the person he can talk to, as I had no-one and I regret it later in life.