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Ramping up to the teen yrs and police intervention
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 461736" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>((HUS)) You know my/difficult child's stories so I won't repeat them.</p><p></p><p>It's a catch 22. We either find a way to try to hang in there and ultimately enable it to continue or we turn them over to a system that's extremely difficult to get out of and really doesn't help them at all. In the end, you do have to protect yourself and remember that they carry some responsibility (if not all) for pushing things to the point that we parents are in this position to begin with. There is such a fine line between a parent doling out the rewards/consequences and ending up with a life where all we're doing is constantly reacting to the difficult child's actions or lack thereof, thus leaving the difficult child in control of the house.</p><p></p><p>difficult child and I saw so many police officers in the last jurisdiction that we couldn't tell if we were looking at a "new" one or not when we'd run across them. The image of seeing my son in handcuffs numerous times will be burnt in my mind forever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 461736, member: 3699"] ((HUS)) You know my/difficult child's stories so I won't repeat them. It's a catch 22. We either find a way to try to hang in there and ultimately enable it to continue or we turn them over to a system that's extremely difficult to get out of and really doesn't help them at all. In the end, you do have to protect yourself and remember that they carry some responsibility (if not all) for pushing things to the point that we parents are in this position to begin with. There is such a fine line between a parent doling out the rewards/consequences and ending up with a life where all we're doing is constantly reacting to the difficult child's actions or lack thereof, thus leaving the difficult child in control of the house. difficult child and I saw so many police officers in the last jurisdiction that we couldn't tell if we were looking at a "new" one or not when we'd run across them. The image of seeing my son in handcuffs numerous times will be burnt in my mind forever. [/QUOTE]
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