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17 year old son has us feeling trapped
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<blockquote data-quote="Elisabeth" data-source="post: 702778" data-attributes="member: 21048"><p>This sounds very much like my 18 year old who is a senior. Straight A student, high standardized test scores, super smart kid - but last year he started hanging out with a cool group of kids and smoking pot. I didn't understand what was going on - I thought the problem were that he was having troubles with focus and since ADD runs in our family (I have it), I got him on ADD medications which made him anxious (according to him) so he started to smoke pot. I found pot - the house smelled of skunk - I confronted him and he promised that he wouldn't do it again. I know have a kid with Straight Fs who is stoned nearly all of the time hanging out with kids that I hate but since he is 18 I have no control over being held hostage - Can I talk to the school without my kid getting busted is my question? I have no idea what to do - his dreams from a few years ago of going to an elite college and doing something with his life just seems to melt away and the whole family is now fighting fighting fighting and he takes this high ground that he is 18 and it is his life. I am so tired of it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elisabeth, post: 702778, member: 21048"] This sounds very much like my 18 year old who is a senior. Straight A student, high standardized test scores, super smart kid - but last year he started hanging out with a cool group of kids and smoking pot. I didn't understand what was going on - I thought the problem were that he was having troubles with focus and since ADD runs in our family (I have it), I got him on ADD medications which made him anxious (according to him) so he started to smoke pot. I found pot - the house smelled of skunk - I confronted him and he promised that he wouldn't do it again. I know have a kid with Straight Fs who is stoned nearly all of the time hanging out with kids that I hate but since he is 18 I have no control over being held hostage - Can I talk to the school without my kid getting busted is my question? I have no idea what to do - his dreams from a few years ago of going to an elite college and doing something with his life just seems to melt away and the whole family is now fighting fighting fighting and he takes this high ground that he is 18 and it is his life. I am so tired of it! [/QUOTE]
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