Janet's ideas are good too but of course.....that's assuming the person is willing. My son was sooooooo stubborn that the only way I could have made him do something he didn't want to do was to physicall move his body for him. Literally.
Other people have also tried "stealing" from the difficult child. However, this is sometimes dangerous because once the difficult child realizes he has been stolen from, the mushroom cloud can be seen for miiiiiiiiles. Also, a lot of our kids just don't make the connection and it does no good.
You may not make an impact on your difficult child as for right/wrong and you may have to live behind locked doors in your own home until he's out of the house. Unfortunately, with a difficult child in the house, it's necessary. My difficult child had his own place before he went to jail and then prison. In the time since he originally moved out.....it has been WONDERFUL in our house. I can't tell you when we last locked our bedroom door. I can buy anything I want and not worry about it disappearing. We can leave our Wii hooked up (gasp) ALL THE TIME now!
People with easy child's probably won't ever understand but if I have ANYTHING to say about it, difficult child will NEVER live here again. EV-VER. I put my time in behind locked doors and I'm not about to do it again. I'm sorry you are only at the beginning of that life.
