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call 911 on difficult child again, he is out of our house now
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 506516"><p>OK I think there are lots of reasons why parents might help a kids friend and let them live there. I don't understand the concept of not talking to the kids parents, especially when they call you. That is nuts. And I certainly can't understand lying to another set of parents about where their kid is.</p><p></p><p>But I can understand taking another kid in, even a pretty troubled kid. When I was in HS I became best friends with a boy who came from a pretty messed up home life. He definitely was troubled too in some ways. He also was wonderful in many other ways. He and I were good friends but not romantically invovled. I had a big crush on him until he told me he was gay. LOL. </p><p></p><p>Anyway he spent a whole lot of time at our house. The summer before I went to college he basically lived at my house. It was not official but he stayed most nights at our house. My parents grew very very fond of him and of course he was always polite to my parents. When I was in college he got arrested for having pot in the car when he was out of town. He had one phone call and called my dad who called the judge!!</p><p></p><p>I was definitely a good influence on him. I was really a pretty good girl up to that point. He was talking to my mom once and it came out that he used to steal cars. She said "what made you stop?". He looked at her in surprise and said "I met TL". He did get me into some stuff that was risky... ie experimenting with drugs.... lucky for me I never got really into it and I don't think he was an addict either. Of course the time was different and drugs were different and not as scary as they are now. BUT he also gave me a lot and was a very special person in my life. I was always very glad that my parents gave a place to go and a refuge from his really messed up family situation. And I think it made a big difference in his life... he did eventually commit suicide when he was in his 40s but without our family I think it would have happened sooner than that.</p><p></p><p>Now my mom was in touch with his mother. I knew her as well. So it was not the situation where my parents would refuse to talk to his mom. His mom I don't think had any problem with him staying at our house... ro at one point when she kicked him out, the fact that he came to our house. I think it was probably a relief to her to be honest.</p><p></p><p>None of this is similar to the situations brought up here... but it does make me understand how families would take kids in... and I am sure the kids are a lot more polite and wonderful to other people than to you.</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 506516"] OK I think there are lots of reasons why parents might help a kids friend and let them live there. I don't understand the concept of not talking to the kids parents, especially when they call you. That is nuts. And I certainly can't understand lying to another set of parents about where their kid is. But I can understand taking another kid in, even a pretty troubled kid. When I was in HS I became best friends with a boy who came from a pretty messed up home life. He definitely was troubled too in some ways. He also was wonderful in many other ways. He and I were good friends but not romantically invovled. I had a big crush on him until he told me he was gay. LOL. Anyway he spent a whole lot of time at our house. The summer before I went to college he basically lived at my house. It was not official but he stayed most nights at our house. My parents grew very very fond of him and of course he was always polite to my parents. When I was in college he got arrested for having pot in the car when he was out of town. He had one phone call and called my dad who called the judge!! I was definitely a good influence on him. I was really a pretty good girl up to that point. He was talking to my mom once and it came out that he used to steal cars. She said "what made you stop?". He looked at her in surprise and said "I met TL". He did get me into some stuff that was risky... ie experimenting with drugs.... lucky for me I never got really into it and I don't think he was an addict either. Of course the time was different and drugs were different and not as scary as they are now. BUT he also gave me a lot and was a very special person in my life. I was always very glad that my parents gave a place to go and a refuge from his really messed up family situation. And I think it made a big difference in his life... he did eventually commit suicide when he was in his 40s but without our family I think it would have happened sooner than that. Now my mom was in touch with his mother. I knew her as well. So it was not the situation where my parents would refuse to talk to his mom. His mom I don't think had any problem with him staying at our house... ro at one point when she kicked him out, the fact that he came to our house. I think it was probably a relief to her to be honest. None of this is similar to the situations brought up here... but it does make me understand how families would take kids in... and I am sure the kids are a lot more polite and wonderful to other people than to you. TL [/QUOTE]
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