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Reminder - Dr. Phil today
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 527699" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I didn't see yesterday's show but did see a few of the much earlier ones about this family over the past couple of years. That mom/grandmom was VERY controlling. Now that doesn't mean I couldn't see where she was coming from but there is a fine line between rewards/consequences and trying to manipulate grown kids to do what you want them to do and it's often easily crossed, in my humble opinion. It's one thing to draw a line in the sand and have healthy boundaries but it's another to try to bribe adult kids into doing what you want them to- that is actually trying to control them- and those parents did that a lot before Alex got into tx this time. I know in their minds they were trying to encourage tx and discourage continued drug use and poor choices but they were going about it all wrong. They couldn't see that the way they were going about it was just as dysfunctional as Alex was acting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 527699, member: 3699"] I didn't see yesterday's show but did see a few of the much earlier ones about this family over the past couple of years. That mom/grandmom was VERY controlling. Now that doesn't mean I couldn't see where she was coming from but there is a fine line between rewards/consequences and trying to manipulate grown kids to do what you want them to do and it's often easily crossed, in my humble opinion. It's one thing to draw a line in the sand and have healthy boundaries but it's another to try to bribe adult kids into doing what you want them to- that is actually trying to control them- and those parents did that a lot before Alex got into tx this time. I know in their minds they were trying to encourage tx and discourage continued drug use and poor choices but they were going about it all wrong. They couldn't see that the way they were going about it was just as dysfunctional as Alex was acting. [/QUOTE]
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