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difficult child just keeps on mocking our values
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<blockquote data-quote="Fran" data-source="post: 109413" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Sure seems like grandiose thinking but for some reason some of our difficult child teens use religion like a weapon to rebel. </p><p>It's a mixture of normal teen rebellion and stupidity mixed with difficult child brand of disordered thinking. </p><p>I don't know anyone who has gotten their teen to back off with this behavior. They either grow out of it, get bored with it or go into a full fledged meltdown over it. </p><p></p><p>I understand the whole thing of allowing them to find their own way with religion but this isn't really about faith, church or values. It's about rejecting the world, family and society that doesn't accept him as he is. </p><p></p><p>I go through this with my difficult child although he doesn't use religion as his battering ram. In his head it is "why should I conform?" As he has aged he is getting that if he doesn't pull in the grandiose thinking he will be alone, unemployed and generally a king in his own mind but very lonely and miserable. </p><p></p><p>It's scary when they are so arrogant as to think they are superior in every way but have no action or proof of this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fran, post: 109413, member: 3"] Sure seems like grandiose thinking but for some reason some of our difficult child teens use religion like a weapon to rebel. It's a mixture of normal teen rebellion and stupidity mixed with difficult child brand of disordered thinking. I don't know anyone who has gotten their teen to back off with this behavior. They either grow out of it, get bored with it or go into a full fledged meltdown over it. I understand the whole thing of allowing them to find their own way with religion but this isn't really about faith, church or values. It's about rejecting the world, family and society that doesn't accept him as he is. I go through this with my difficult child although he doesn't use religion as his battering ram. In his head it is "why should I conform?" As he has aged he is getting that if he doesn't pull in the grandiose thinking he will be alone, unemployed and generally a king in his own mind but very lonely and miserable. It's scary when they are so arrogant as to think they are superior in every way but have no action or proof of this. [/QUOTE]
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