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has anyone moved to give their difficult child a new start?
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 388921" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I was in mild trouble when I was in Jr. High School. I'd been at the same private school with the same kids since I was 5. I was a total outcast. I convinced my parents to send me to a different school when I went into 8th grade. I found more trouble than I had ever imagined within a month and had to change schools again. By January I was in so much trouble I was in foster care and never went home again. </p><p></p><p>We had tons of kids move here from California in the 90's when they were getting a fortune for their homes there and we were selling them for peanuts here. Kids who were minor troublemakers came into town with their notorious (sometimes self-generated) stories and did way more than they had done at home in California. And their parents had no clue as to what was going on because they didn't know or have a past with the new people their kids were hanging out with. Many of them have been tried as adults and in jail since then.</p><p></p><p>I would hesitate greatly to move to put my difficult child into a new environment. At 20 there is no way in hockey sticks I'd even consider doing it for<em> him</em>. He's a man and he has to figure this out. A new place is not going to change him. He is the only thing that can change him. There are places in your community that he can go, even if it is a small community. He can volunteer at any number of places to prove to himself and to others that he is becoming a responsible man. Then good things will follow him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 388921, member: 99"] I was in mild trouble when I was in Jr. High School. I'd been at the same private school with the same kids since I was 5. I was a total outcast. I convinced my parents to send me to a different school when I went into 8th grade. I found more trouble than I had ever imagined within a month and had to change schools again. By January I was in so much trouble I was in foster care and never went home again. We had tons of kids move here from California in the 90's when they were getting a fortune for their homes there and we were selling them for peanuts here. Kids who were minor troublemakers came into town with their notorious (sometimes self-generated) stories and did way more than they had done at home in California. And their parents had no clue as to what was going on because they didn't know or have a past with the new people their kids were hanging out with. Many of them have been tried as adults and in jail since then. I would hesitate greatly to move to put my difficult child into a new environment. At 20 there is no way in hockey sticks I'd even consider doing it for[I] him[/I]. He's a man and he has to figure this out. A new place is not going to change him. He is the only thing that can change him. There are places in your community that he can go, even if it is a small community. He can volunteer at any number of places to prove to himself and to others that he is becoming a responsible man. Then good things will follow him. [/QUOTE]
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