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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 216589" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Anyone who tells you they can "totally transform" ANY child, especially a teenager, is blowing sunshine up your patootie.</p><p> </p><p>Sorry to be so blunt, but that is a fact.</p><p> </p><p>You can't just "transform" anyone. THEY have to want to change, and work on changing. And most teens don't want to change - they want YOU to change.</p><p> </p><p>The best advice I can give you, with-o knowing a whole lot more about the situation, is to follow the link to amazon.com and buy the book "Parenting Teens With Love and Logic" (It may be titled Love and Logic Parenting for Teens, but I don't think so). THis book give strategies to help you parent your child effectively while preserving that loving bond between parent and child.</p><p> </p><p>I am sorry things are so tough. I wish I could tell you otherwise. I CAN tell you that after many many many years of therapy, medication, psychiatrists, visits to phosps, and finally having Gpa and Gma take my son so that he can be the only child in the house (something about having the younger kids and all the chaos that come with that is very very difficult for my Wiz), and having Gpa work WITH Wiz in the yard doing hard physical labor every time Wiz got out of control, well, we do have a real transformation of Wiz.</p><p> </p><p>But it took a LONG time. And a LOT of people. But we went from thinking we would be looking at prisons for Wiz because his violence and total refusal to follow ANY rules to having colleges sending recruiting info, and talking about a FUTURE that involved technical school next year and college after that! </p><p> </p><p>So I know you are frustrated, and at the end of the rope. Hang in there, it will take time and effort but hopefully you will see progress soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 216589, member: 1233"] Anyone who tells you they can "totally transform" ANY child, especially a teenager, is blowing sunshine up your patootie. Sorry to be so blunt, but that is a fact. You can't just "transform" anyone. THEY have to want to change, and work on changing. And most teens don't want to change - they want YOU to change. The best advice I can give you, with-o knowing a whole lot more about the situation, is to follow the link to amazon.com and buy the book "Parenting Teens With Love and Logic" (It may be titled Love and Logic Parenting for Teens, but I don't think so). THis book give strategies to help you parent your child effectively while preserving that loving bond between parent and child. I am sorry things are so tough. I wish I could tell you otherwise. I CAN tell you that after many many many years of therapy, medication, psychiatrists, visits to phosps, and finally having Gpa and Gma take my son so that he can be the only child in the house (something about having the younger kids and all the chaos that come with that is very very difficult for my Wiz), and having Gpa work WITH Wiz in the yard doing hard physical labor every time Wiz got out of control, well, we do have a real transformation of Wiz. But it took a LONG time. And a LOT of people. But we went from thinking we would be looking at prisons for Wiz because his violence and total refusal to follow ANY rules to having colleges sending recruiting info, and talking about a FUTURE that involved technical school next year and college after that! So I know you are frustrated, and at the end of the rope. Hang in there, it will take time and effort but hopefully you will see progress soon. [/QUOTE]
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