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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 304863" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Trish...what kinds of drugs is your son doing? I somehow get the feeling that maybe things are a bit different in Australia than they are in the US. Is the drinking age lower there? He seems able to go into pubs to buy beer and alcohol with no problem. </p><p></p><p>It would almost be absurd for us to tell someone in the Netherlands that their child or adult child had a problem if they visited the "smoking dens" that are rampant in that part of the world. Same with the opium dens in Turkey. It is just part of their culture. May not be our culture or our idea of what is good for us but really not our place to say. Maybe the age for drinking is lower in Australia. </p><p></p><p>On another note, we had an awful time with entitlement with my youngest. He gave us heck for an awful long time. He got so bad for most of his teen years and it just got worse once he became an adult. We finally had to make him leave a year ago and it was the best thing we ever did for him. Not so much for us, though it has been great, but it has made him grow up by leaps and bounds. He is much happier. We have a much better relationship now. I almost hated him the last year or two. I know his dad could barely stand to look at him. Now we love having him around. Absence does make the heart grow fonder...lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 304863, member: 1514"] Trish...what kinds of drugs is your son doing? I somehow get the feeling that maybe things are a bit different in Australia than they are in the US. Is the drinking age lower there? He seems able to go into pubs to buy beer and alcohol with no problem. It would almost be absurd for us to tell someone in the Netherlands that their child or adult child had a problem if they visited the "smoking dens" that are rampant in that part of the world. Same with the opium dens in Turkey. It is just part of their culture. May not be our culture or our idea of what is good for us but really not our place to say. Maybe the age for drinking is lower in Australia. On another note, we had an awful time with entitlement with my youngest. He gave us heck for an awful long time. He got so bad for most of his teen years and it just got worse once he became an adult. We finally had to make him leave a year ago and it was the best thing we ever did for him. Not so much for us, though it has been great, but it has made him grow up by leaps and bounds. He is much happier. We have a much better relationship now. I almost hated him the last year or two. I know his dad could barely stand to look at him. Now we love having him around. Absence does make the heart grow fonder...lol. [/QUOTE]
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