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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 172254" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>By age 14 my difficult child was spending hours walking around the town, including the university. It was my parents' idea to let him roam aimlessly, but then they let me do it too. It is his way of "getting away" and working off stress. If you are at home, maybe defining an area he can roam in, making sure there are water bottles available, and making sure he has a cell phone so you can reach each other.</p><p> </p><p>I know Wiz lost roaming priveleges several times (and got 10-15 hours of yard work, not all in a row) because he didn't answer his phone or turned it off. He was on a pay as you go plan and didn't want to "waste" minutes talking to my parents. So he lost play time.</p><p> </p><p>I don't know the area you live in. Here, we are a small city (barely a city, in my humble opinion) with a major university. It is common to see people of all ages walking around. </p><p> </p><p>My problem with having Wiz go roaming was that they had no clue where he intended to go. At the same age I had to have a destination in mind or I could stay home. I am not sure Wiz would have followed this, and had no intention of getting into the battle or discipline situation with Wiz. So I let it be, and he still goes roaming when he needs to "get away". </p><p> </p><p>If he brought the football, he carried it, and there was no room to play with it, would he have insisted on playing with it, or just held it? As long as he didn't make someone else carry it, I am not sure I woudl have objected to it, though I might have offered a bag to put it in so it wouldn't have gotten loose in the street. but not knowing how he would have acted, I probably would have told him to leave it at home too.</p><p> </p><p>This is why I enjoy kids who can't go anywhere with-o a book. </p><p> </p><p>Hugs,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 172254, member: 1233"] By age 14 my difficult child was spending hours walking around the town, including the university. It was my parents' idea to let him roam aimlessly, but then they let me do it too. It is his way of "getting away" and working off stress. If you are at home, maybe defining an area he can roam in, making sure there are water bottles available, and making sure he has a cell phone so you can reach each other. I know Wiz lost roaming priveleges several times (and got 10-15 hours of yard work, not all in a row) because he didn't answer his phone or turned it off. He was on a pay as you go plan and didn't want to "waste" minutes talking to my parents. So he lost play time. I don't know the area you live in. Here, we are a small city (barely a city, in my humble opinion) with a major university. It is common to see people of all ages walking around. My problem with having Wiz go roaming was that they had no clue where he intended to go. At the same age I had to have a destination in mind or I could stay home. I am not sure Wiz would have followed this, and had no intention of getting into the battle or discipline situation with Wiz. So I let it be, and he still goes roaming when he needs to "get away". If he brought the football, he carried it, and there was no room to play with it, would he have insisted on playing with it, or just held it? As long as he didn't make someone else carry it, I am not sure I woudl have objected to it, though I might have offered a bag to put it in so it wouldn't have gotten loose in the street. but not knowing how he would have acted, I probably would have told him to leave it at home too. This is why I enjoy kids who can't go anywhere with-o a book. Hugs, [/QUOTE]
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