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difficult child 17. How will he handle adulthood?
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<blockquote data-quote="ck1" data-source="post: 105119" data-attributes="member: 3767"><p>I also wanted to say hello! Everyone here has given great advice, so there's not much for me to add. Tough love and natural consequences are hard on us as parents, but so necessary. For years, my son didn't experience these because I was so busy trying to keep the peace. It was absolutely exhausting for me and didn't help my difficult child, just furthered his sense of entitlement! He's been bumped down a few notches...we're still a work in progress and I still struggle with it, but it's a lot better for me and will be for difficult child.</p><p></p><p>I know this advice may sound hard to enforce, but it's very necessary. You should never listen to your son argue with you about anything for three hours, or any hours. If he doesn't learn, or at least accept that he must respect authority, finding and keeping jobs is going to be a problem. You want to be the one to teach him this and now is the time!! </p><p></p><p>So many wonderful people are here for you...glad you found this site!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ck1, post: 105119, member: 3767"] I also wanted to say hello! Everyone here has given great advice, so there's not much for me to add. Tough love and natural consequences are hard on us as parents, but so necessary. For years, my son didn't experience these because I was so busy trying to keep the peace. It was absolutely exhausting for me and didn't help my difficult child, just furthered his sense of entitlement! He's been bumped down a few notches...we're still a work in progress and I still struggle with it, but it's a lot better for me and will be for difficult child. I know this advice may sound hard to enforce, but it's very necessary. You should never listen to your son argue with you about anything for three hours, or any hours. If he doesn't learn, or at least accept that he must respect authority, finding and keeping jobs is going to be a problem. You want to be the one to teach him this and now is the time!! So many wonderful people are here for you...glad you found this site!!! [/QUOTE]
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