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Despite issues...why don't they understand the law?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 638336" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I disagree. Our difficult children don't understand consequences. Our PCs do or they aren't really PCs. There are a lot of teens who want nothing to do with breaking the law, don't get into trouble, don't overly drink or do drugs, go to college to get a career, want to grow up and be independent and have great lives.I've had both. They are like night and day. </p><p></p><p>High risk kids tend to be impulsive, defiant, uncaring of the laws (they understand them, but still try not to get caught doing the wrong things) and most teens know they are not above the law. </p><p></p><p>My daughter, the older one who got into a bad crowd and made horrible choices from age 12 to 18, has gotten Facebook requests from her old crowd of drug using lawbreakers. In fact, she has gotten friend requests from many of them. Except for one other female who changed, she tells me they are still doing the same dance now as they did in their teens only they are thirty, like her. They are in and out of jail, on probation, doing drugs and a negative bonus is they often have kids too that they don't support and the mothers don't like them. Hardly can blame that on their age, but they started eqarly like my daughter.They just did not feel the urge to change their lives. </p><p></p><p>It is my hope that every adult child here decides to change his life and does not end up like my daughter's motley crew of losers. And guess what? A lot of them are still living at home, in between jail/prison time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 638336, member: 1550"] I disagree. Our difficult children don't understand consequences. Our PCs do or they aren't really PCs. There are a lot of teens who want nothing to do with breaking the law, don't get into trouble, don't overly drink or do drugs, go to college to get a career, want to grow up and be independent and have great lives.I've had both. They are like night and day. High risk kids tend to be impulsive, defiant, uncaring of the laws (they understand them, but still try not to get caught doing the wrong things) and most teens know they are not above the law. My daughter, the older one who got into a bad crowd and made horrible choices from age 12 to 18, has gotten Facebook requests from her old crowd of drug using lawbreakers. In fact, she has gotten friend requests from many of them. Except for one other female who changed, she tells me they are still doing the same dance now as they did in their teens only they are thirty, like her. They are in and out of jail, on probation, doing drugs and a negative bonus is they often have kids too that they don't support and the mothers don't like them. Hardly can blame that on their age, but they started eqarly like my daughter.They just did not feel the urge to change their lives. It is my hope that every adult child here decides to change his life and does not end up like my daughter's motley crew of losers. And guess what? A lot of them are still living at home, in between jail/prison time. [/QUOTE]
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