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difficult child age 15 headed for trouble how to avoid it your advice please
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 388987"><p>just curious how you know he is not using drugs? Has he always been this way or is there any new behavior? The reason I ask is the behavior he is exhibiting is often true with kids who are using.... and I think often parents are the last to know about any drug use. Unfortunately I speak from experience here. One thing I did when my son was 14 and he seemed tired a lot etc. was I told him we needed to check for things like anemia and I took him to the doctor. I told the doctor my concerns about his symptoms and the doctor took me aside and asked for permission to drug test him. The the doctor called difficult child and told me difficult child did not want me to know the results.... of course then I knew so I confronted difficult child and that is how I found out that in fact he had been smoking a lot of pot and as it came out he had been doing this for several months. So one suggestion is to take him in for a physical, call the doctor ahead of time and ask if they can include in that a drug test. Then you will know for sure.</p><p></p><p>So in either case, but assuming he is not using drugs, is there a youth officer in your local police department? I would call them and find out. If there is I would talk to him or her and ask them for advice. The youth officer usually spends a lot of time at the high school and knows the kids and what is going on. Hopefully anyways. I would talk to him and ask for suggestions and sometimes they will talk to the kid and let him know the path he is on. </p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 388987"] just curious how you know he is not using drugs? Has he always been this way or is there any new behavior? The reason I ask is the behavior he is exhibiting is often true with kids who are using.... and I think often parents are the last to know about any drug use. Unfortunately I speak from experience here. One thing I did when my son was 14 and he seemed tired a lot etc. was I told him we needed to check for things like anemia and I took him to the doctor. I told the doctor my concerns about his symptoms and the doctor took me aside and asked for permission to drug test him. The the doctor called difficult child and told me difficult child did not want me to know the results.... of course then I knew so I confronted difficult child and that is how I found out that in fact he had been smoking a lot of pot and as it came out he had been doing this for several months. So one suggestion is to take him in for a physical, call the doctor ahead of time and ask if they can include in that a drug test. Then you will know for sure. So in either case, but assuming he is not using drugs, is there a youth officer in your local police department? I would call them and find out. If there is I would talk to him or her and ask them for advice. The youth officer usually spends a lot of time at the high school and knows the kids and what is going on. Hopefully anyways. I would talk to him and ask for suggestions and sometimes they will talk to the kid and let him know the path he is on. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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