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<blockquote data-quote="asumama" data-source="post: 445707" data-attributes="member: 12393"><p>His earlier childhood wasn't great. Apparently his mother tried but wasn't able to totally quit smoking during the pregnancy and did consume some alcohol. I am not aware of any psychiatric issues in his mom or bio dad (although the bio dad is serving time in prison). I know the mom and my husband fought often. It's difficult to really piece together an objective view of his earlier years as I get most of the information from my husband (it seems as if his bipolar may taint his objective memory though). We are also fairly unaware of what goes on at his mom's house. Although, I do know he's been exposed to movies such as Speed, Devil, and other R rated scary movies. </p><p></p><p>His mother has lived with several friends this past year, moving when she is no longer welcome. We recently moved into a house (allowing all the kids and soon-to-come baby to have their own rooms). </p><p></p><p>I have spent the past year that we have been a family working on giving him lots of love and trying to make some difference in his behavior, yet things seem to either get worse or at the least stay consistently bad. I have just started having my daughter stay the night at my parents house when he comes over because I'm too concerned something will happen and too frustrated with the language/behavior that she picks up from him. Clearly this cannot work for very long. I'm trying to keep my hope and faith, but i'm concerned that if we haven't seen any improvements in the past year what is the likelihood that he will improve? I don't really see his mom making huge parenting changes, and my husbands bipolar I know causes some problems (broken routines, inability to focus on children for extended periods since he becomes overwhelmed easily, things of that nature).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="asumama, post: 445707, member: 12393"] His earlier childhood wasn't great. Apparently his mother tried but wasn't able to totally quit smoking during the pregnancy and did consume some alcohol. I am not aware of any psychiatric issues in his mom or bio dad (although the bio dad is serving time in prison). I know the mom and my husband fought often. It's difficult to really piece together an objective view of his earlier years as I get most of the information from my husband (it seems as if his bipolar may taint his objective memory though). We are also fairly unaware of what goes on at his mom's house. Although, I do know he's been exposed to movies such as Speed, Devil, and other R rated scary movies. His mother has lived with several friends this past year, moving when she is no longer welcome. We recently moved into a house (allowing all the kids and soon-to-come baby to have their own rooms). I have spent the past year that we have been a family working on giving him lots of love and trying to make some difference in his behavior, yet things seem to either get worse or at the least stay consistently bad. I have just started having my daughter stay the night at my parents house when he comes over because I'm too concerned something will happen and too frustrated with the language/behavior that she picks up from him. Clearly this cannot work for very long. I'm trying to keep my hope and faith, but i'm concerned that if we haven't seen any improvements in the past year what is the likelihood that he will improve? I don't really see his mom making huge parenting changes, and my husbands bipolar I know causes some problems (broken routines, inability to focus on children for extended periods since he becomes overwhelmed easily, things of that nature). [/QUOTE]
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