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<blockquote data-quote="rejectedmom" data-source="post: 237355" data-attributes="member: 2315"><p>therapist sound really good. She is trying to take some stress off you and give difficult child a bit of control while at the same time telling him that he needs to study and do his work. It is a balancing act she needs to gain his trust but at the same time teach him limits and boundries and the proper way to challenge you the parent. Kids must challenge us in order to grow and gain independance but your difficult child (and many like him) have not learned the proper way to do this with respect and logical thought. We as parents of a barely functioning child have a hard time letting go of trying to control and prevent bad outcomes. The therapist needs to establish guidlines for both you and difficult child in order to make any progress. Try to keep an open mind. It is hard for the parent especially when you are having real misgivings based on past history.</p><p></p><p>As far as the adult marriage counseling goes, I think the therapist is doing really well and asking the right questions. Hopefully he will be able to help your husband deal with the lack of a childhood and his arrested emotional growth now that knows the how and why of it. I hope your husband sticks with it. It will be so good for him to go back and resolve those horrid issues with an adult mind. My husband was only able to get through a few of them but even so he is that much better for it. Like I said in my other post to the thread in WC, Hang in there. -RM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rejectedmom, post: 237355, member: 2315"] therapist sound really good. She is trying to take some stress off you and give difficult child a bit of control while at the same time telling him that he needs to study and do his work. It is a balancing act she needs to gain his trust but at the same time teach him limits and boundries and the proper way to challenge you the parent. Kids must challenge us in order to grow and gain independance but your difficult child (and many like him) have not learned the proper way to do this with respect and logical thought. We as parents of a barely functioning child have a hard time letting go of trying to control and prevent bad outcomes. The therapist needs to establish guidlines for both you and difficult child in order to make any progress. Try to keep an open mind. It is hard for the parent especially when you are having real misgivings based on past history. As far as the adult marriage counseling goes, I think the therapist is doing really well and asking the right questions. Hopefully he will be able to help your husband deal with the lack of a childhood and his arrested emotional growth now that knows the how and why of it. I hope your husband sticks with it. It will be so good for him to go back and resolve those horrid issues with an adult mind. My husband was only able to get through a few of them but even so he is that much better for it. Like I said in my other post to the thread in WC, Hang in there. -RM [/QUOTE]
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