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    gap year ideas?

    so, difficult child is likely not returning for spring semester of Freshman year at college. Our options are work, community college, or some combo. We are also considering a gap year/semester. Without offering opinions of which way we should go...can anyone please recommend any gap year ideas so we can...
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    Free fall freshman year

    So, we sent difficult child to a college he really wanted to attend that is perfect for him. Beautiful campus, beautiful people, easy academics. He's popular and having fun but overdoing the partying and missing classes and assignments due to being tired, run down, easily swayed by others to blow off...
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    I'm actually going to send him to college??

    So..he graduates HS with barely a D average in the classes that count and barely gets into the college he really wanted. Spent a month at the Summer semester offered at his college and received a B-,D- and an F (in PE!). Obviously screwing off and smoking pot. Total charmer, winning...
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    Been through a lot, hoping to see light at end of tunnel..

    Seems like difficult child has been pushing limits for two years straight since returning from intervention. Every week its something..either we find pot or he does something dumb (speeding tickets, unauthorized withdrawals from atm, cuts a class, stays out past curfew). We have taken to withholding...
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    Normalizing teen behavior?

    I know I could post this in substance abuse forum, but I am looking to any parents emeritus to share any been there done that experience. difficult child is working hard this summer on his football. He also realizes that his 11th grade report card of C's and D's should have been better..but he is the typical ADHD ODD...
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    No driver test

    So, we warned him clearly..."if we catch that you smoked weed, we'll cancel your driving test next week". Of course we caught him today..getting ready for the fireworks when we tell him. Almost wish we could tranquilize him first. We;ll try some dbt, not hopeful. It gets very ugly for the...
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    medications question

    so..difficult child is doing "ok-ish". Getting by with C- average thanks to the tutors, inclusion classes, and resource room.. We want to restart an ADHD medication, and looking for any anecdotal experience when adding these to a current mix of lexapro and risperdal. We have licensed p-docs, etc. thanks Enzo
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    Oy vay

    so...difficult child was having an "ok" summer. Better peer group, but still too much partying. He went to a 3 week summer enrichment program at a midwestern university, and of course found a way to get high every day. He came home to find he was grounded, and went thru the roof. Refused to take his...
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    Need advice: "can I just smoke a little?"

    difficult child is trying to comply with our rules, and has been mostly good at home. Problem is that his positive peers are now smoking pot instead of drinking.(runaway pot use was difficult child's downfall earlier this year). Positive peers are all responsible achievers who can be responsible the next day...difficult child...
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    Reasons for hope...

    Hi All, We visited with difficult child this weekend for a family weekend at his "character boarding school", and it was pretty darn good. Although we had our moments, he is cooperating with the program and knows he has to stay away from pot if he wants to spend the summer at home (instead of wilderness)...
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    Holding the line, can use support!

    Like many stories up here, our difficult child discovered pot as a self medicating way to feel good, and it quickly got out of control. We forced him into a 28 day dbt program (it was that or "wilderness"..) and he just started a "character intensive" boarding school (his other choice was, you guessed it...
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    Sending son to rehab and then boarding school

    Very sad for us. difficult child has been going downhill at 80 mph(barely D's, cutting classes to get high with dangerous friends, buying pot from anyone and everyone) and aggressive towards us, amongst other things..We're not going to let him go down the tubes. We check him into a 30 day inpatient and...
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    Aspen Education Group?

    We are thinking of sending difficult child to a month of Wilderness program this summer sponsored by Aspen Education Group. Any experience or stories to share would be appreciated! We are looking at the Adirondacks or PHoenix House program. Many thanks,
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    New Member, can use advice,

    got a feeling you've all heard this one before! difficult child son is 15, oppositional from day 1, but a very sweet kid when he's not having a tantrum. Always needed a "pacifier" (toy trucks, batman figures, etc). Was diagnosed ADD, executive function issues a few years ago. Hates to read, or sit...
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