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<blockquote data-quote="GitPicker" data-source="post: 551482" data-attributes="member: 15234"><p>Thank you everyone for your encouragement and support. You asked for some history on my son. He is a very bright kid, but very, very much a non-conformist. He has a winning personality and is very popular with people in many groups. He is a master manipulator which is one reason he is so spoiled. Until he was fourteen he did well in school, played drums in the school band and was pleasant to be around. Then he got in with a group of kids that were just the opposite. In a month he dropped band and became a different person. Used a lot of drugs and alcohol etc. Then he was arrested and a week in Juvenile detention turned him around. He did pretty well after that. He always had a problem with authority and could never follow the rules completely and at times could be extremely verbally abusive. That was until about six months ago. After a lot of part time jobs and lawn mowing, he got a good job. Full time with benefits. The works. He was unhappy tho because he didnt have enough time with his friends. He quit after not quite a month. We wonder if he didnt meet someone at the job and start using drugs again because of the hours because that is when he started going down hill. After he quit it got much worse. Verbal abuse was off the charts, coming and going at odd hours and the stealing began. The kid has great potential. He is smart and knows how to work hard. He is doing everything he can to get us to relent. We pay for his cell phone - for now. He is constantly calling and trying different ploys to get us to let him come home. The problem is he hasn't changed and he doesnt see that the problem is with HIM. It is me or his mom or everything else but him. I have done all I can to make him understand that point but he just will not admit it. Until he does and makes serious efforts to change his life and behavior I see no way for him to come home. That is a hard truth for his Mother and I to accept and we are struggling with it daily. Thanks again. GitPicker</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GitPicker, post: 551482, member: 15234"] Thank you everyone for your encouragement and support. You asked for some history on my son. He is a very bright kid, but very, very much a non-conformist. He has a winning personality and is very popular with people in many groups. He is a master manipulator which is one reason he is so spoiled. Until he was fourteen he did well in school, played drums in the school band and was pleasant to be around. Then he got in with a group of kids that were just the opposite. In a month he dropped band and became a different person. Used a lot of drugs and alcohol etc. Then he was arrested and a week in Juvenile detention turned him around. He did pretty well after that. He always had a problem with authority and could never follow the rules completely and at times could be extremely verbally abusive. That was until about six months ago. After a lot of part time jobs and lawn mowing, he got a good job. Full time with benefits. The works. He was unhappy tho because he didnt have enough time with his friends. He quit after not quite a month. We wonder if he didnt meet someone at the job and start using drugs again because of the hours because that is when he started going down hill. After he quit it got much worse. Verbal abuse was off the charts, coming and going at odd hours and the stealing began. The kid has great potential. He is smart and knows how to work hard. He is doing everything he can to get us to relent. We pay for his cell phone - for now. He is constantly calling and trying different ploys to get us to let him come home. The problem is he hasn't changed and he doesnt see that the problem is with HIM. It is me or his mom or everything else but him. I have done all I can to make him understand that point but he just will not admit it. Until he does and makes serious efforts to change his life and behavior I see no way for him to come home. That is a hard truth for his Mother and I to accept and we are struggling with it daily. Thanks again. GitPicker [/QUOTE]
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