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<blockquote data-quote="mom_to_3" data-source="post: 657227" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>I hear your anxiety and understand you want her to graduate. I also hear you are fearful of the DA. I probably would be too! Have you ever thought to let your daughter "own" this? Because basically she is, because she is calling all the shots and you are the one tearing your hair out worrying about what will become of her and what trouble you will get into.</p><p></p><p>Why don't you just go to the DA yourself? She has been old enough for quite some time to realize she needs to go to school and is required to go to school and if she doesn't there are consequences for YOU! There is not too much it seems to be motivating her to go to school. It seems every accommodation has already been made and your daughter is not willing to even meet a quarter of the way. Go to the DA. Tell them what has been happening in your home. What you have tried, what arrangements you've made, how you go out of your way to pick her up at lunch time....... Tell them!</p><p></p><p>What are they going to do ARREST you because you went to them asking for help? No they will not. They will see that you are not the problem and quite possibly there is something they know of to motivate your daughter to do the things she needs to be doing. There truly are no excuses, not one, why she has missed so much school other that it is a big power play on her part and she has gotten away with it.</p><p></p><p>It should be obvious by now that not ONE thing you are going to do will make her get her education. She doesn't want it and she does not want to be responsible or held accountable and she has learned to get the things she wants in her own way. The only responsible thing I can see you doing as her mother and as an adult who cares about her future is to go to the DA. Hugs CB, you keep spinning your wheels with her and have gotten nowhere. It's time to stop spinning and make her go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mom_to_3, post: 657227, member: 30"] I hear your anxiety and understand you want her to graduate. I also hear you are fearful of the DA. I probably would be too! Have you ever thought to let your daughter "own" this? Because basically she is, because she is calling all the shots and you are the one tearing your hair out worrying about what will become of her and what trouble you will get into. Why don't you just go to the DA yourself? She has been old enough for quite some time to realize she needs to go to school and is required to go to school and if she doesn't there are consequences for YOU! There is not too much it seems to be motivating her to go to school. It seems every accommodation has already been made and your daughter is not willing to even meet a quarter of the way. Go to the DA. Tell them what has been happening in your home. What you have tried, what arrangements you've made, how you go out of your way to pick her up at lunch time....... Tell them! What are they going to do ARREST you because you went to them asking for help? No they will not. They will see that you are not the problem and quite possibly there is something they know of to motivate your daughter to do the things she needs to be doing. There truly are no excuses, not one, why she has missed so much school other that it is a big power play on her part and she has gotten away with it. It should be obvious by now that not ONE thing you are going to do will make her get her education. She doesn't want it and she does not want to be responsible or held accountable and she has learned to get the things she wants in her own way. The only responsible thing I can see you doing as her mother and as an adult who cares about her future is to go to the DA. Hugs CB, you keep spinning your wheels with her and have gotten nowhere. It's time to stop spinning and make her go. [/QUOTE]
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