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difficult child was arrested for drugs and underage drinking
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 310900" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Nancy, you've taught me a lot about adopted kids that I didn't want to face so I wanted to check in and give you some support and/or empathy...both, I hope.</p><p></p><p>My daughter was on parole three times for the same stupid thing. She was luckier because she was under eighteen and it was erased from her record, but I think the two of them have stuff in common. </p><p></p><p>I hope this wakes up your daughter, but at her age it's up to her. We were finished bailing daughter out once she hit that magic eighteen. Just as you feel, and rightly so, we felt we did all we could for her and were unwilling to enable her bad choices.</p><p></p><p>I hope this scares her to pieces and straightens her out. You did more than you needed to do for her and now it's her turn. She knows how to behave if she wants to. I'm sorry for your hurting heart. You did more than we were willing to do. We would never have sent daughter away to school knowing she would have been a magnet for all things self-destructive and she didn't get that extra chance your daughter got. We sent her to the local tech school. She managed to find druggies there anyway and her counselor called us up once worried that she was on cocaine. She was. It was a miracle she wasn't thrown out of the hairdressing program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 310900, member: 1550"] Nancy, you've taught me a lot about adopted kids that I didn't want to face so I wanted to check in and give you some support and/or empathy...both, I hope. My daughter was on parole three times for the same stupid thing. She was luckier because she was under eighteen and it was erased from her record, but I think the two of them have stuff in common. I hope this wakes up your daughter, but at her age it's up to her. We were finished bailing daughter out once she hit that magic eighteen. Just as you feel, and rightly so, we felt we did all we could for her and were unwilling to enable her bad choices. I hope this scares her to pieces and straightens her out. You did more than you needed to do for her and now it's her turn. She knows how to behave if she wants to. I'm sorry for your hurting heart. You did more than we were willing to do. We would never have sent daughter away to school knowing she would have been a magnet for all things self-destructive and she didn't get that extra chance your daughter got. We sent her to the local tech school. She managed to find druggies there anyway and her counselor called us up once worried that she was on cocaine. She was. It was a miracle she wasn't thrown out of the hairdressing program. [/QUOTE]
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