KarenB
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I haven't been on here months, but things have gotten much worse. I feel like I can't go on with my son. I am looking for some kind of residential place for the Summer. He lies and steals every single day. He broke into our neighbor's house several times before we figured out it was him. He just got caught(by me) for stealing library books from school. He hoards food to the point where we locked all our cabinets and refrigerator. He has encopresis issues as well as bedwetting. He'll be 14 in August. Currently he's only seeing a psychiatrist, no therapy. Therapy hasn't done one bit of good for years, and I couldn't continue to take use time and money for nothing. He hasn't had a neuropsychologist evaluation, and I have read here it's a good idea. I don't know how to get it set up, but I'll find out. They are going to test him at school and see if he can get an IEP, but the guidance counselor said she doesn't think he'll qualify based on other testing and his IQ.
I feel like the worst mother alive, but I honestly don't want him here. I'm so angry that I can't see straight. He takes whatever he wants and lies to everyone in the family on a daily basis. We have locks on the outside of our bedroom doors so he can't take things from my husband and I, or our daughter. My three oldest kids got fed up and left! The whole family is completely unhappy and disrupted to the point of no repair. And I honestly don't want to subject my new 6 month old baby boy to his older brother at all. I am afraid of what he will learn from his brother, and I certainly wouldn't leave him alone with him! There is so much tension in our house you could cut it with a knife. It sounds like I don't care, don't want to help him. Not at all true. I feel like I've exhausted all measures, and even my sanity.
Sorry to write a book. I just don't know where to turn.
I feel like the worst mother alive, but I honestly don't want him here. I'm so angry that I can't see straight. He takes whatever he wants and lies to everyone in the family on a daily basis. We have locks on the outside of our bedroom doors so he can't take things from my husband and I, or our daughter. My three oldest kids got fed up and left! The whole family is completely unhappy and disrupted to the point of no repair. And I honestly don't want to subject my new 6 month old baby boy to his older brother at all. I am afraid of what he will learn from his brother, and I certainly wouldn't leave him alone with him! There is so much tension in our house you could cut it with a knife. It sounds like I don't care, don't want to help him. Not at all true. I feel like I've exhausted all measures, and even my sanity.
Sorry to write a book. I just don't know where to turn.