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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 292933" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thanks! Like all of us moms, I know I can't expect that attitude and level of achievement all the time and as a mom of a difficult child, I can't expect it most of the time. But as DDD implied, I'll sure enjoy whatever moment I can get!</p><p></p><p>The boy that's in there with him for stabbing his grandmother to death told difficult child that he is very lucky and should be very glad and thankful that he did not carry thru with his threat on me. difficult child told me this at the last visitation. It makes me think that <em>maybe</em> difficult child is getting to a point where he can see the seriousness of what he did. I don't know. I hope someday he can be thankful that he spent a year locked up for a threat instead of many, many years for killing his mom and no longer having his mom.</p><p></p><p>Still, I have a concern because even though I realize he has to remain confident that he can succesfully do his time, and they do use some positive reinforcements to encourage the boys to hang in there, I don't want difficult child accepting this life as one that isn't so bad and re-offending because he doesn't have the same fear of it anymore. There are a lot worse facilities, even for juveniles, that he could be in so I hope he's hearing from other boys in there that it gets worse if they re-offend and have to go back. I hope he doesn't see that as a challenge to prove his manhood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 292933, member: 3699"] Thanks! Like all of us moms, I know I can't expect that attitude and level of achievement all the time and as a mom of a difficult child, I can't expect it most of the time. But as DDD implied, I'll sure enjoy whatever moment I can get! The boy that's in there with him for stabbing his grandmother to death told difficult child that he is very lucky and should be very glad and thankful that he did not carry thru with his threat on me. difficult child told me this at the last visitation. It makes me think that [I]maybe[/I] difficult child is getting to a point where he can see the seriousness of what he did. I don't know. I hope someday he can be thankful that he spent a year locked up for a threat instead of many, many years for killing his mom and no longer having his mom. Still, I have a concern because even though I realize he has to remain confident that he can succesfully do his time, and they do use some positive reinforcements to encourage the boys to hang in there, I don't want difficult child accepting this life as one that isn't so bad and re-offending because he doesn't have the same fear of it anymore. There are a lot worse facilities, even for juveniles, that he could be in so I hope he's hearing from other boys in there that it gets worse if they re-offend and have to go back. I hope he doesn't see that as a challenge to prove his manhood. [/QUOTE]
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