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<blockquote data-quote="jaj6786" data-source="post: 377093"><p>How old is he? I assume late teens, if he can get into a frat house party.</p><p></p><p>If you can afford it, the boot camp idea is a good one. There are very expensive "therapeutic boarding schools" out west ($6K+ per month), but beneath the marketing veneer, they're just corrals for teen psychopaths (I know this from bitter experience with a teen family member difficult child). Their "graduates" recidivate nearly universally upon release, or learn how to more cleverly evade detection in their misbehaviors. If he's a high school grad or approaching graduation, I hate to tell you that by far the best bet is to give him the old but always effective ultimatum: a hitch in the military (navy these days, as we're fighting no wars on the water these days or in the projected future) or ejection from the house. It takes guts to do this, but it's the most certain path toward his reformation/maturity. Your description of his behavior indicates a great unlikelihood that he'll turn a new leaf via mere counseling or a school program, etc--it appears that he's just pacifying you with occasional & insincere good behavior in the face of being taken again to the PD, etc. None of it sounds sincere on his part, and the rest of the picture is pure CD (if you have to lock up everything, you're there), which will inevitably lead to early adult sociopathy if stern measures aren't taken now. Time to be tough and set aside ineffectual half-measures. Better a hitch in the navy now, with the maturation and discipline and college funds that'll derive from it, than a sentence behind bars in a few years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaj6786, post: 377093"] How old is he? I assume late teens, if he can get into a frat house party. If you can afford it, the boot camp idea is a good one. There are very expensive "therapeutic boarding schools" out west ($6K+ per month), but beneath the marketing veneer, they're just corrals for teen psychopaths (I know this from bitter experience with a teen family member difficult child). Their "graduates" recidivate nearly universally upon release, or learn how to more cleverly evade detection in their misbehaviors. If he's a high school grad or approaching graduation, I hate to tell you that by far the best bet is to give him the old but always effective ultimatum: a hitch in the military (navy these days, as we're fighting no wars on the water these days or in the projected future) or ejection from the house. It takes guts to do this, but it's the most certain path toward his reformation/maturity. Your description of his behavior indicates a great unlikelihood that he'll turn a new leaf via mere counseling or a school program, etc--it appears that he's just pacifying you with occasional & insincere good behavior in the face of being taken again to the PD, etc. None of it sounds sincere on his part, and the rest of the picture is pure CD (if you have to lock up everything, you're there), which will inevitably lead to early adult sociopathy if stern measures aren't taken now. Time to be tough and set aside ineffectual half-measures. Better a hitch in the navy now, with the maturation and discipline and college funds that'll derive from it, than a sentence behind bars in a few years. [/QUOTE]
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