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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 82199" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>First of all, your son is undermining you by keeping alcohol where your difficult child can get to it. I would tell him to stop coming home on weekends if he is going to allow your daughter to use alcohol. He is contributing to the deliquency of a minor.</p><p></p><p>Second, you could be describing my difficult child in her younger days. She was also an excellent student who was in honor's and AP classes. She never got into trouble at school.</p><p></p><p>Our home life was a different story. She was defiant, disrespectful, used drugs, and stole from us and our easy child on numerous occasions.</p><p></p><p>We finally had to kick her out (not once but twice) before she finally started to straighten out. She is now living on her own, has a job delivering pizza, and has gone back to college full time (after several false starts). She has also become loving and pleasant now ~ something that I wouldn't have thought possible when she was 16.</p><p></p><p>Looking back, I wish we had sent her to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) or EGBS when she was your difficult child's age but I didn't even know that they existed back when she was in what we now call her dark years.</p><p></p><p>We did go to counselor after counselor but things didn't get better until we forced her to grow up by refusing to let her bring drugs and chaos into our lives anymore.</p><p></p><p>You can't do that, though, since your difficult child is only 16. I would do what the others are suggesting and get her evaluated. </p><p></p><p>Welcome to the board. So many of us have lived through what you are going through now. </p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 82199, member: 1967"] First of all, your son is undermining you by keeping alcohol where your difficult child can get to it. I would tell him to stop coming home on weekends if he is going to allow your daughter to use alcohol. He is contributing to the deliquency of a minor. Second, you could be describing my difficult child in her younger days. She was also an excellent student who was in honor's and AP classes. She never got into trouble at school. Our home life was a different story. She was defiant, disrespectful, used drugs, and stole from us and our easy child on numerous occasions. We finally had to kick her out (not once but twice) before she finally started to straighten out. She is now living on her own, has a job delivering pizza, and has gone back to college full time (after several false starts). She has also become loving and pleasant now ~ something that I wouldn't have thought possible when she was 16. Looking back, I wish we had sent her to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) or EGBS when she was your difficult child's age but I didn't even know that they existed back when she was in what we now call her dark years. We did go to counselor after counselor but things didn't get better until we forced her to grow up by refusing to let her bring drugs and chaos into our lives anymore. You can't do that, though, since your difficult child is only 16. I would do what the others are suggesting and get her evaluated. Welcome to the board. So many of us have lived through what you are going through now. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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