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16 Year old son is having multiple issues
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 718417" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Sounds like drugs may be involved...beyond pot. That may or may not be his main draw to her.</p><p></p><p>My daughter is now 34 and doing well, but she did drugs at your sons age. At sixteen we have some control but, trust me, not so much. They are able to elude our barriers. Unless we lock them in the house 24/7.</p><p></p><p>We pulled Daughter out of school and gave her a homeschool cirriculum, stopped her using our car, gave her no allowance and in that day and age cell phones were new and most didnt own one, her included. She literally was just allowed to go to work. And we drove her and picked her up. Problem.l solved, right? No money for drugs and very limited contact with peers.</p><p></p><p>She used drugs anyway. She found a way to sell drugs to get money. Of course, she also had a job although nothing extra from us. She must have bought drugs at work.</p><p></p><p>They find ways.</p><p></p><p>Yet I am not sorry we made it hard for her. In the end, her motivation for quitting was "Drugs are too hard. Not worth it."</p><p></p><p>Stand firm is my advice. It may or may not work, but we all have to do what we feel is best. There are no guarantees, but I feel our kids see the light more often if we make it hard for them to do bad things.</p><p></p><p>by the way, my daughters earliest drug dealer was a 35 year old neighbor. She used to babysit for his child. We turned him in but he got out of it by saying he was innocent...that my daughter had a crush on him and was angry when he told her no. Such a lie, but there was no proof.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 718417, member: 1550"] Sounds like drugs may be involved...beyond pot. That may or may not be his main draw to her. My daughter is now 34 and doing well, but she did drugs at your sons age. At sixteen we have some control but, trust me, not so much. They are able to elude our barriers. Unless we lock them in the house 24/7. We pulled Daughter out of school and gave her a homeschool cirriculum, stopped her using our car, gave her no allowance and in that day and age cell phones were new and most didnt own one, her included. She literally was just allowed to go to work. And we drove her and picked her up. Problem.l solved, right? No money for drugs and very limited contact with peers. She used drugs anyway. She found a way to sell drugs to get money. Of course, she also had a job although nothing extra from us. She must have bought drugs at work. They find ways. Yet I am not sorry we made it hard for her. In the end, her motivation for quitting was "Drugs are too hard. Not worth it." Stand firm is my advice. It may or may not work, but we all have to do what we feel is best. There are no guarantees, but I feel our kids see the light more often if we make it hard for them to do bad things. by the way, my daughters earliest drug dealer was a 35 year old neighbor. She used to babysit for his child. We turned him in but he got out of it by saying he was innocent...that my daughter had a crush on him and was angry when he told her no. Such a lie, but there was no proof. [/QUOTE]
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