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<blockquote data-quote="elizabrary" data-source="post: 557581" data-attributes="member: 11235"><p>Here's what I would do. I used to do stuff like this with-Kat and it oddly worked. I still do it and she's frickin' 22. Anyway, tell her to go home after school. Then each day give her a list of 3-5 chores that have to be done by the time you get home. If she doesn't do them spell out the consequences in advance- loss of cell phone, don't give her any money, whatever. Ground her and if she leaves call the police and report her as a runaway, whatever you have to do. Then you have to follow through. At one point I took Kat's car away and she tried to say I couldn't because she had to go to work. I drove her and she said she would have her 22-year-old boyfriend (she was 16) pick her up. I went into her work and asked to speak to her manager. I told him if she left with anyone but me he needed to call me immediately as she would be considered a runaway and I would call the police. She stood there crying and calling me a *****. I didn't care. Nobody else picked her up from work. My point being, figure out what loopholes she will try to get through and have a plan to close them. These kids are geniuses at figuring out ridiculous ways around things. Good luck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elizabrary, post: 557581, member: 11235"] Here's what I would do. I used to do stuff like this with-Kat and it oddly worked. I still do it and she's frickin' 22. Anyway, tell her to go home after school. Then each day give her a list of 3-5 chores that have to be done by the time you get home. If she doesn't do them spell out the consequences in advance- loss of cell phone, don't give her any money, whatever. Ground her and if she leaves call the police and report her as a runaway, whatever you have to do. Then you have to follow through. At one point I took Kat's car away and she tried to say I couldn't because she had to go to work. I drove her and she said she would have her 22-year-old boyfriend (she was 16) pick her up. I went into her work and asked to speak to her manager. I told him if she left with anyone but me he needed to call me immediately as she would be considered a runaway and I would call the police. She stood there crying and calling me a *****. I didn't care. Nobody else picked her up from work. My point being, figure out what loopholes she will try to get through and have a plan to close them. These kids are geniuses at figuring out ridiculous ways around things. Good luck [/QUOTE]
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