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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 273198" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>I agree with you Fran. I don't have much faith or hope that things will be OK. I did have hope, but each time that hope was smashed. We have tried and tried to get her on the right path. We were so hoping she would go to college, if for no other reason to mature a bit and meet other young people who had goals (and to give us some time alone without the constant chaos and worrying).</p><p></p><p>I don't ignore the negative either. I plan for it and hope that maybe somehow it won't be that bad. I'm not generally a negative person but she hasn't given us much to be positive about. She told me yesterday she knows she has made a lot of bad choices and she will have to live with them. What she really means is that she will continue making those bad choices because she hasn't learned any lessons from them.</p><p></p><p>I probably will go to the graduation ceremony. But what I really want to tell her is that I don't feel like getting dressed up. That's what she told us yesterday about the awards ceremony. Besides I earned this diploma. We aren't buying her a present. If she were going to college we would have gotten her a laptop. It just doesn't seem the right thing to do to buy her a present when she spent four years in high school doing everything she could to defy us and did nothing to prepare for the future. She didn't study for one test, didn't bring one book home the entire four years. There are no good memories we have of her high school years. Why pretend.</p><p></p><p>I started cleaning out stuff today. Dumped the boxes of old high school papers. Took the computer out of our bedroom where we put it to keep her off it at all hours of the night and put it back in the den where it belongs. I can't wait to clean out her room, fill the holes int he wall, fix the hinges of the door, put the door frame back on, paint the walls and rip up the destroyed carpeting. I took easy child out to dinner. I'm not waiting around for her any longer.</p><p></p><p>I told her recently that when I stopped caring she would be sorry. </p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 273198, member: 59"] I agree with you Fran. I don't have much faith or hope that things will be OK. I did have hope, but each time that hope was smashed. We have tried and tried to get her on the right path. We were so hoping she would go to college, if for no other reason to mature a bit and meet other young people who had goals (and to give us some time alone without the constant chaos and worrying). I don't ignore the negative either. I plan for it and hope that maybe somehow it won't be that bad. I'm not generally a negative person but she hasn't given us much to be positive about. She told me yesterday she knows she has made a lot of bad choices and she will have to live with them. What she really means is that she will continue making those bad choices because she hasn't learned any lessons from them. I probably will go to the graduation ceremony. But what I really want to tell her is that I don't feel like getting dressed up. That's what she told us yesterday about the awards ceremony. Besides I earned this diploma. We aren't buying her a present. If she were going to college we would have gotten her a laptop. It just doesn't seem the right thing to do to buy her a present when she spent four years in high school doing everything she could to defy us and did nothing to prepare for the future. She didn't study for one test, didn't bring one book home the entire four years. There are no good memories we have of her high school years. Why pretend. I started cleaning out stuff today. Dumped the boxes of old high school papers. Took the computer out of our bedroom where we put it to keep her off it at all hours of the night and put it back in the den where it belongs. I can't wait to clean out her room, fill the holes int he wall, fix the hinges of the door, put the door frame back on, paint the walls and rip up the destroyed carpeting. I took easy child out to dinner. I'm not waiting around for her any longer. I told her recently that when I stopped caring she would be sorry. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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