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<blockquote data-quote="mom_in_training" data-source="post: 5425" data-attributes="member: 2727"><p>"line up ladies...I'm ready for the "I told you so's..." </p><p></p><p>CAmom, I can assure you that there is nobody here that will be lining up. I was thinking about you today and almost posted to see about an update. Sorry things have gone this far with your difficult child but you know this might just have been what he needs to turn things around for the better. I have been through plenty with my difficult child and she is 17-1/2 and it is even hard for me to be able to say that she will make good choices in her future. All we can do as parents after we have already given it our all to save them as well as provide the necessary tools is just hope that they make better choices. Of course we continue guiding them but we parents do not have the power to change them, Nobody has that power, It is up to the individual to change willingly once they recognize that they have to do something different for themselves. Or it might just take your difficult child getting caught doing something illegal or somehow being involved to get them on the right path. My difficult child was smoking marijuana a while back and to this day I still do random drug testing and so far she has tested clean. But I can tell you that her personality did change quite a bit and she lost interest in school, old friends, disrespected me and other adults in which she had never done before. It was crazy. Thank you for the update. Hopefully his trip to juvenile hall has sent a messege and he will start making better choices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mom_in_training, post: 5425, member: 2727"] "line up ladies...I'm ready for the "I told you so's..." CAmom, I can assure you that there is nobody here that will be lining up. I was thinking about you today and almost posted to see about an update. Sorry things have gone this far with your difficult child but you know this might just have been what he needs to turn things around for the better. I have been through plenty with my difficult child and she is 17-1/2 and it is even hard for me to be able to say that she will make good choices in her future. All we can do as parents after we have already given it our all to save them as well as provide the necessary tools is just hope that they make better choices. Of course we continue guiding them but we parents do not have the power to change them, Nobody has that power, It is up to the individual to change willingly once they recognize that they have to do something different for themselves. Or it might just take your difficult child getting caught doing something illegal or somehow being involved to get them on the right path. My difficult child was smoking marijuana a while back and to this day I still do random drug testing and so far she has tested clean. But I can tell you that her personality did change quite a bit and she lost interest in school, old friends, disrespected me and other adults in which she had never done before. It was crazy. Thank you for the update. Hopefully his trip to juvenile hall has sent a messege and he will start making better choices. [/QUOTE]
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