text: This is kind of hard to answer without knowing the details, but I'll give it a shot.  You can talk until you are blue in the face and not ever change his mind.  All you can do is to keep on doing what is right without worrying about what he thinks.  Parents tend to judge their children too hard, and I am sorry to say that I have been quilty of this myself, but I have three out of four boys that will lie in a heartbeat and look you straight in the eye while doing it.\nHang in there, things will improve.  Keep on keeping on.