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<blockquote data-quote="everywoman" data-source="post: 24675" data-attributes="member: 1436"><p>"Please understand sometimes trying something like this works - other times it doesn't."</p><p></p><p>That goes with everything any of use tries--medications, inpatient care, outpatient care, docs, Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s....</p><p></p><p>Linda, I admire so much your ability to take the situation you've been given---or actualy you took on---and just deal! I know that this is not what you dreamed your life would be like...but then did any of us here ever imagine we would be here. But, you...you have a tenacity that I find amazing. I know you get tired and that at times it seems too much, but I've also seen that you know when you've had enough and had the sense to back away. This parenting of difficult children is hard and they don't put this kind of stuff in the parenting manual I was given when mine were born (LOL). </p><p></p><p>I think so much of what we do as parents---of both difficult children and easy child's is trial and error. Whta works for one may not work for all. We do what we can with the resources available to us. We learn to be advocates for our children. I have never been beyond trying anything to get help for difficult child. Somethings helped; others were a wash, but at least I never gave up. I would have moved a mountain if I was told it would help. </p><p></p><p>Sometime we are left at the mercy of the professionals---and we all know they aren't always right. They, like us, are humans. They will make mistakes. Even when it's there job to do the best thing for the child, how can anyone know what is the best thing for each child. The professionals we trust with our children don't have a crystal ball---they can't possibly know, anymore than we can, what will work.</p><p></p><p>I don't expect anything out of anyone that I don't expect out of myself. After all, in the end, I am the parent. The decisions are mine and the choices are my son's. No gov't agency, hospital, Residential Treatment Center (RTC), justic system will change any of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="everywoman, post: 24675, member: 1436"] "Please understand sometimes trying something like this works - other times it doesn't." That goes with everything any of use tries--medications, inpatient care, outpatient care, docs, Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s.... Linda, I admire so much your ability to take the situation you've been given---or actualy you took on---and just deal! I know that this is not what you dreamed your life would be like...but then did any of us here ever imagine we would be here. But, you...you have a tenacity that I find amazing. I know you get tired and that at times it seems too much, but I've also seen that you know when you've had enough and had the sense to back away. This parenting of difficult children is hard and they don't put this kind of stuff in the parenting manual I was given when mine were born (LOL). I think so much of what we do as parents---of both difficult children and easy child's is trial and error. Whta works for one may not work for all. We do what we can with the resources available to us. We learn to be advocates for our children. I have never been beyond trying anything to get help for difficult child. Somethings helped; others were a wash, but at least I never gave up. I would have moved a mountain if I was told it would help. Sometime we are left at the mercy of the professionals---and we all know they aren't always right. They, like us, are humans. They will make mistakes. Even when it's there job to do the best thing for the child, how can anyone know what is the best thing for each child. The professionals we trust with our children don't have a crystal ball---they can't possibly know, anymore than we can, what will work. I don't expect anything out of anyone that I don't expect out of myself. After all, in the end, I am the parent. The decisions are mine and the choices are my son's. No gov't agency, hospital, Residential Treatment Center (RTC), justic system will change any of that. [/QUOTE]
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