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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 276559" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>I don't know if you have been "lurking" for some time or if you are totally new to the site. It really is a comfort to be able to read posts (including old ones) from loving,intelligent, sane adults who are living a life they never ever expected to have. It doesn't make everything "all right" but it is a reassurance that you're still sane! Sending you a big hug in hopes it will help.</p><p> </p><p>If you can enforce your son's education completion requirement with the excitement of his trust fund and freedom motivating him...go for it. It is not "how it's suppose to be" but he will not go back and finish his school on his own. No way.</p><p> </p><p>As a working single parent you sound like you have done a dynamite job of trying to enforce the rules and detach from the unacceptable behaviors. Many of our single parents are unable to stand up to the stress of a teen difficult child since they have no in home backup. Way To Go!</p><p> </p><p>Keep posting as often as you want to help vent your stress and hopefully get some support, too. Make it clear that when "he goes" "he's gone". Have the locks changed on the doors. Protection put on the windows and do not answer the phone every time he calls. It is important to protect yourself from the stress AND it is important for him to realize that he is not going on a vacation....he is going out into the world as a man who is responsible for himself.</p><p> </p><p>I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 276559, member: 35"] I don't know if you have been "lurking" for some time or if you are totally new to the site. It really is a comfort to be able to read posts (including old ones) from loving,intelligent, sane adults who are living a life they never ever expected to have. It doesn't make everything "all right" but it is a reassurance that you're still sane! Sending you a big hug in hopes it will help. If you can enforce your son's education completion requirement with the excitement of his trust fund and freedom motivating him...go for it. It is not "how it's suppose to be" but he will not go back and finish his school on his own. No way. As a working single parent you sound like you have done a dynamite job of trying to enforce the rules and detach from the unacceptable behaviors. Many of our single parents are unable to stand up to the stress of a teen difficult child since they have no in home backup. Way To Go! Keep posting as often as you want to help vent your stress and hopefully get some support, too. Make it clear that when "he goes" "he's gone". Have the locks changed on the doors. Protection put on the windows and do not answer the phone every time he calls. It is important to protect yourself from the stress AND it is important for him to realize that he is not going on a vacation....he is going out into the world as a man who is responsible for himself. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. DDD [/QUOTE]
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