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difficult child out of the house - Day 3
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<blockquote data-quote="ScentofCedar" data-source="post: 37979" data-attributes="member: 3353"><p>I agree with what the others of us have said.</p><p></p><p>I would add that, like all good mothers, you have walked paths you may never have walked on your own out of a good-humored curiousity and a fascination for your child and for everything she is, or might get, into.</p><p></p><p>But now you need to draw your own conclusions as to what is best, both for her and for you, and stick to them.</p><p></p><p>Think through everything just as you are doing now.</p><p></p><p>So many of us (me included) have had to learn that we cannot be our children's friends. They already have friends.</p><p></p><p>We need to be their parents.</p><p></p><p>We need to see further based on our greater experience of life, and at least caution them not to go a wrong way. If they go that way anyway, we need to learn how to stand away from them and stay strong enough to be the beacon that will bring them back from the bad way ~ bad because it eventually becomes self destructive.</p><p></p><p>So I say stick to your guns on the Detroit thing.</p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScentofCedar, post: 37979, member: 3353"] I agree with what the others of us have said. I would add that, like all good mothers, you have walked paths you may never have walked on your own out of a good-humored curiousity and a fascination for your child and for everything she is, or might get, into. But now you need to draw your own conclusions as to what is best, both for her and for you, and stick to them. Think through everything just as you are doing now. So many of us (me included) have had to learn that we cannot be our children's friends. They already have friends. We need to be their parents. We need to see further based on our greater experience of life, and at least caution them not to go a wrong way. If they go that way anyway, we need to learn how to stand away from them and stay strong enough to be the beacon that will bring them back from the bad way ~ bad because it eventually becomes self destructive. So I say stick to your guns on the Detroit thing. Barbara [/QUOTE]
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