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difficult child 17. How will he handle adulthood?
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<blockquote data-quote="Purple Cow" data-source="post: 104893" data-attributes="member: 4410"><p>Sue,</p><p>Thank you for your comments and advise.</p><p></p><p>In the past we have let our son try to take responsibility for his actions but lately we have been pushing him more because of his going off to college. His grades have gone down since 10th grade but he is still doing ok but well below his potential as most of his teachers say when we go to conferences. He has his application in for college and has been rejected by the college he hoped to get into. We are scrambling to get him into another college.We are not sure why he did not get in as his ACT was good. He has had no other activities in school (other than sports) with groups, no community service, and no leadership skills listed. And I know that they consider this thing quite a bit now days. His school counselor is totally baffled as to why he didn't get in. He was positive he would. My son was put on a postpone list so there was still a possiblity he could have gotten in. Unfortuntaly, he called to the admissions department and really read them the riot act, using four-letter words so I think he blew any chance he had. He argued with him for over an hour. Frankly, we really want him to get in somewhere as we are totally worn out.</p><p></p><p>You are correct that he has success in many things but displays all but two of the symtoms of ODD. The P. we saw definately had no question that he had ODD and thinks he should get therapy. I know that he doesn't have it as bad as others on this forum but it is definately progressing. We can only hope that he will get insight into his ODD and get therapy on his own sometime in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Purple Cow, post: 104893, member: 4410"] Sue, Thank you for your comments and advise. In the past we have let our son try to take responsibility for his actions but lately we have been pushing him more because of his going off to college. His grades have gone down since 10th grade but he is still doing ok but well below his potential as most of his teachers say when we go to conferences. He has his application in for college and has been rejected by the college he hoped to get into. We are scrambling to get him into another college.We are not sure why he did not get in as his ACT was good. He has had no other activities in school (other than sports) with groups, no community service, and no leadership skills listed. And I know that they consider this thing quite a bit now days. His school counselor is totally baffled as to why he didn't get in. He was positive he would. My son was put on a postpone list so there was still a possiblity he could have gotten in. Unfortuntaly, he called to the admissions department and really read them the riot act, using four-letter words so I think he blew any chance he had. He argued with him for over an hour. Frankly, we really want him to get in somewhere as we are totally worn out. You are correct that he has success in many things but displays all but two of the symtoms of ODD. The P. we saw definately had no question that he had ODD and thinks he should get therapy. I know that he doesn't have it as bad as others on this forum but it is definately progressing. We can only hope that he will get insight into his ODD and get therapy on his own sometime in the future. [/QUOTE]
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