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Coping with grief after kicking difficult child out
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<blockquote data-quote="sadandlost" data-source="post: 628390" data-attributes="member: 18078"><p>This makes so much sense to me. And in a way that is not a bad thing, that he is trying to strike out on his own. Maybe the anger is just the motivation he needs to make it happen. I don't know. This is a kid who has always been pretty independent. He always loved spending the night at friends houses, even at 3. He's kind of a social butterfly. He's disrespectful, deeply self-centered, incredibly argumentative, ungrateful and lazy but deep down, he is a sweet and very smart kid. </p><p></p><p>Sooner or later he is gonna have to learn that what he gets out of life is roughly equal to what he puts into it. That the world doesn't owe him anything. Resilience is a good thing and he will have to learn to be resourceful, and hopefully it won't involve doing illegal or immoral things. I suppose this is what worries me the most, besides getting lost in addiction, which I believe he is very suseptible to.</p><p></p><p>I just now got a phone call that a friend of mine's daughter died last night from a blood infection. 19 or 20 years old, she was a drug addict that my friend kicked out of the home before she was 18. In and out of rehab, never really pulled it together. The illness she that killed her was a result of her drug use. This is so close to home for me, it scary. </p><p></p><p>We live in a very upscale, high socioeconomic community but our kids are dying at alarming rates because of drugs. It's truly the scourge of our generations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sadandlost, post: 628390, member: 18078"] This makes so much sense to me. And in a way that is not a bad thing, that he is trying to strike out on his own. Maybe the anger is just the motivation he needs to make it happen. I don't know. This is a kid who has always been pretty independent. He always loved spending the night at friends houses, even at 3. He's kind of a social butterfly. He's disrespectful, deeply self-centered, incredibly argumentative, ungrateful and lazy but deep down, he is a sweet and very smart kid. Sooner or later he is gonna have to learn that what he gets out of life is roughly equal to what he puts into it. That the world doesn't owe him anything. Resilience is a good thing and he will have to learn to be resourceful, and hopefully it won't involve doing illegal or immoral things. I suppose this is what worries me the most, besides getting lost in addiction, which I believe he is very suseptible to. I just now got a phone call that a friend of mine's daughter died last night from a blood infection. 19 or 20 years old, she was a drug addict that my friend kicked out of the home before she was 18. In and out of rehab, never really pulled it together. The illness she that killed her was a result of her drug use. This is so close to home for me, it scary. We live in a very upscale, high socioeconomic community but our kids are dying at alarming rates because of drugs. It's truly the scourge of our generations. [/QUOTE]
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