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Troubled 13yo from tough background is extremely defiant
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 457556" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>We get: "I'm running away to live with (person of the week)". We're the most simple basic family setup you can get. M & D and two bio kids. This whole "get me outta here" stuff is <strong><u><em>normal teenage stuff</em></u></strong>. Its just that when you have a complicated family situation, the lines they pull hurt more, and they don't understand that part. But really. I pulled lines like that (I'm leaving to go live with auntie xx). Adopted bro threatened to call his social worker to take him away. We ALL pulled that - on a regular basis. Now, granted, we weren't exactly a neuro-typical family. (3 difficult children minimum). But... my more-neurotypical friends were doing the same thing.</p><p></p><p>One of the challenges of challenging kids is, sometimes its hard to differentiate between the "over the top difficult child behavior" and the "over the top teenage behavior".</p><p></p><p>This is one area where family therapy might help though... an independent third party may help Niece see that the sentiment is normal but the approach is "fighting dirty" and she'll get farther with a different approach.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 457556, member: 11791"] We get: "I'm running away to live with (person of the week)". We're the most simple basic family setup you can get. M & D and two bio kids. This whole "get me outta here" stuff is [B][U][I]normal teenage stuff[/I][/U][/B]. Its just that when you have a complicated family situation, the lines they pull hurt more, and they don't understand that part. But really. I pulled lines like that (I'm leaving to go live with auntie xx). Adopted bro threatened to call his social worker to take him away. We ALL pulled that - on a regular basis. Now, granted, we weren't exactly a neuro-typical family. (3 difficult children minimum). But... my more-neurotypical friends were doing the same thing. One of the challenges of challenging kids is, sometimes its hard to differentiate between the "over the top difficult child behavior" and the "over the top teenage behavior". This is one area where family therapy might help though... an independent third party may help Niece see that the sentiment is normal but the approach is "fighting dirty" and she'll get farther with a different approach. [/QUOTE]
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