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<blockquote data-quote="Adrift" data-source="post: 164619" data-attributes="member: 2158"><p>I'm pretty sure I understand what you mean. In many ways my husband and I have been too easy on my difficult child. Too many choices, too understanding of his rages, too busy trying to find out the WHY rather than hold him accountable for his behavior. It was this vicious cycle of being SO afraid of the rage and violence that we would do what we could to avoid it. Our style of parenting has worked very well with our 7 year old, he's kind and compassionate. With the difficult child it didn't work well or maybe it did, he might be way worse off without us. We'll never really know but are trying so hard to toughen up. He's 13 and, as we trust him more not to be violent, he needs to be held more accountalbe for all the other stuff like disrespect and not contributing to the family. It's hard but you all know that so well! Welcome, I'm also a long-time lurker who pokes her head out every once in a awhile...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adrift, post: 164619, member: 2158"] I'm pretty sure I understand what you mean. In many ways my husband and I have been too easy on my difficult child. Too many choices, too understanding of his rages, too busy trying to find out the WHY rather than hold him accountable for his behavior. It was this vicious cycle of being SO afraid of the rage and violence that we would do what we could to avoid it. Our style of parenting has worked very well with our 7 year old, he's kind and compassionate. With the difficult child it didn't work well or maybe it did, he might be way worse off without us. We'll never really know but are trying so hard to toughen up. He's 13 and, as we trust him more not to be violent, he needs to be held more accountalbe for all the other stuff like disrespect and not contributing to the family. It's hard but you all know that so well! Welcome, I'm also a long-time lurker who pokes her head out every once in a awhile... [/QUOTE]
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