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difficult child is back in jail....and God it is depressing
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<blockquote data-quote="Hopingforthe best" data-source="post: 621475" data-attributes="member: 12294"><p>Hello, </p><p>Echo, Com,Alba, and Mwm. I want you to know i read each and every one of your replies many many times and cried lots of tears because of the wisdom and comfort i found in them. And every time i cried, the burden felt lighter and i didn't feel so alone anymore. As a result, i can tell you that for the first time in three days, i was able to come home, make dinner and do the dishes. Later, i cleaned my house and went out for a walk. I hope to do more tomorrow and take each day at a time but i am glad that there are moms like you who get. Like that anecdote you wrote about regrets echo, it is like you were speaking what i have been thinking because my biggest regret is not being able to take difficult child to outward bound wilderness program after he got into trouble the first time. I always beat myself up wondering whether he missed an opportunity to change. Another thing i can't seem to let go of is not taking difficult child to a private school. At the time he was ready to enter high school, i went in and enrolled him in a very reputable catholic school in our area but a chance meeting with my land lord at the time who was a high school principal made me change my mind after he convinced me how good his school was. I have always wondered how difficult child would have turned out if he went to a more structured school. Now i know it is not the school or friends. Whatever was meant to happen would have happened anywhere and i have to accept that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hopingforthe best, post: 621475, member: 12294"] Hello, Echo, Com,Alba, and Mwm. I want you to know i read each and every one of your replies many many times and cried lots of tears because of the wisdom and comfort i found in them. And every time i cried, the burden felt lighter and i didn't feel so alone anymore. As a result, i can tell you that for the first time in three days, i was able to come home, make dinner and do the dishes. Later, i cleaned my house and went out for a walk. I hope to do more tomorrow and take each day at a time but i am glad that there are moms like you who get. Like that anecdote you wrote about regrets echo, it is like you were speaking what i have been thinking because my biggest regret is not being able to take difficult child to outward bound wilderness program after he got into trouble the first time. I always beat myself up wondering whether he missed an opportunity to change. Another thing i can't seem to let go of is not taking difficult child to a private school. At the time he was ready to enter high school, i went in and enrolled him in a very reputable catholic school in our area but a chance meeting with my land lord at the time who was a high school principal made me change my mind after he convinced me how good his school was. I have always wondered how difficult child would have turned out if he went to a more structured school. Now i know it is not the school or friends. Whatever was meant to happen would have happened anywhere and i have to accept that. [/QUOTE]
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