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can you make a teen difficult child take medication?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bunny" data-source="post: 477371"><p>difficult child is usually medication compliant, but we have had times where I trusted him too much and discovered that he was throwing the pills in the garbage or down the drain. Now I've become warden mom when it comes to medications. Either husband or I give them to him, watch him put them in his mouth and I make him open his mouth so that I can see that he swallowed them. I agree with the others. medications should be a non-issue. If she doesn't want to take them, fine, but then she gets to do nothing other than sit in her room and do nothing.</p><p></p><p>As far as the homework, again, I agree with the others. Let her fail if that is her choice. She's old enough to learn that there are consequences for not getting her work done and handing it in on time. difficult child tried this with me once. He came home on a Friday and told me that he had alot of homework and that he was going to do it little by little over the weekend. Great, right? I kept reminding him that he needed to do it, and he kept telling me, "Later!" (that seems to be his favorite answer). Finally, it was Sunday night and nothing was done. husband and I found him having a screaming fit, rolling around on the floor of his room, telling me that I had to call the teachers and tell them that they gave too much work for him to get done and that he couldn't do it. Either that, or I had to do the work for him. I told him no, and he said that then he would go into school and tell the teachers that it was all my fault, that I didn't "let" him do his work. I called his bluff and said, "Fine. Let them call and I will explain it to them." He did get the work done, but if need be I would have let him go without it done and let him figure it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunny, post: 477371"] difficult child is usually medication compliant, but we have had times where I trusted him too much and discovered that he was throwing the pills in the garbage or down the drain. Now I've become warden mom when it comes to medications. Either husband or I give them to him, watch him put them in his mouth and I make him open his mouth so that I can see that he swallowed them. I agree with the others. medications should be a non-issue. If she doesn't want to take them, fine, but then she gets to do nothing other than sit in her room and do nothing. As far as the homework, again, I agree with the others. Let her fail if that is her choice. She's old enough to learn that there are consequences for not getting her work done and handing it in on time. difficult child tried this with me once. He came home on a Friday and told me that he had alot of homework and that he was going to do it little by little over the weekend. Great, right? I kept reminding him that he needed to do it, and he kept telling me, "Later!" (that seems to be his favorite answer). Finally, it was Sunday night and nothing was done. husband and I found him having a screaming fit, rolling around on the floor of his room, telling me that I had to call the teachers and tell them that they gave too much work for him to get done and that he couldn't do it. Either that, or I had to do the work for him. I told him no, and he said that then he would go into school and tell the teachers that it was all my fault, that I didn't "let" him do his work. I called his bluff and said, "Fine. Let them call and I will explain it to them." He did get the work done, but if need be I would have let him go without it done and let him figure it out. [/QUOTE]
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