I posted a couple weeks ago that my difficult child started her junior year of hs and I was worried about some of her classes and the kids that would be in them, but resigned that she would have to prove that she changed and make her choices.
Well..........sad to say she's proved that she is still drawn to the "bad boys". I knew she was hiding something in her purse Tuesday night, her friend wrote on her myspace wall "be smart, don't do drugs". We got into an argument yesterday morning when she refused to show husband and I what was in her purse. She texted me after school and said she wasn't coming home, she was going places.
After many texts and calls back and forth and the threat of the cell phone company tracing her location and giving the info to the police she told me where she was. I suspected it all along. He drinks and uses drugs, as do all his friends. Stupid kid had a blog on his myspace with his full name (it is a very different name and I could never have guessed the last name or spelled it).
By 6:15 p.m. she was suppose to be at flags but we had a feeling. I found the phone number in the book, husband called, read him the riot act and picked difficult child up and took her to flags after telling her that she was now grounded indefinitely, her temp license was pulled, I would be picking her up every day after school and if she didn't like any of those consequences her cell phone would be disconnected and she could find someplace else to live.
You know I felt something coming for a while now. I have a strong sense when something is wrong with my family, it's almost overpowering. Maybe it's come from years of reading signals from my dad who was an alcoholic and caused turmoil in the home.
I wish I had better news but the only good thing in all this is when I called all her friends yesterday trying to find her they all told me they were very upset with her and hadn't talked to her in days now. Hoping peer pressure takes over.
Nancy
Well..........sad to say she's proved that she is still drawn to the "bad boys". I knew she was hiding something in her purse Tuesday night, her friend wrote on her myspace wall "be smart, don't do drugs". We got into an argument yesterday morning when she refused to show husband and I what was in her purse. She texted me after school and said she wasn't coming home, she was going places.
After many texts and calls back and forth and the threat of the cell phone company tracing her location and giving the info to the police she told me where she was. I suspected it all along. He drinks and uses drugs, as do all his friends. Stupid kid had a blog on his myspace with his full name (it is a very different name and I could never have guessed the last name or spelled it).
By 6:15 p.m. she was suppose to be at flags but we had a feeling. I found the phone number in the book, husband called, read him the riot act and picked difficult child up and took her to flags after telling her that she was now grounded indefinitely, her temp license was pulled, I would be picking her up every day after school and if she didn't like any of those consequences her cell phone would be disconnected and she could find someplace else to live.
You know I felt something coming for a while now. I have a strong sense when something is wrong with my family, it's almost overpowering. Maybe it's come from years of reading signals from my dad who was an alcoholic and caused turmoil in the home.
I wish I had better news but the only good thing in all this is when I called all her friends yesterday trying to find her they all told me they were very upset with her and hadn't talked to her in days now. Hoping peer pressure takes over.
Nancy