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Grandma is threatening to send difficult child 1 to her dad's and it's really making me upset
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 544995" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I side with difficult child about hair and face (her hair, her face), natural consequences. That isn't something you can force. She's too old and I think she'll either get it or she won't. My son is nineteen, on the autism spectrum, and we have to use a reward system to get him to shower every day. He is also overweight and we did all we could to take him for extensive testing to see why he was so hungry all the time and also to a nutritionist. Now that he is nineteen there is nothing, nada that we can do to force him to lose weight. He's not home enough and we've tried every possible consequence to make him care, including the truth about what obesity does to your health, but he doesn't care. He lives in the moment. Maybe one day he will care. I deeply hope so. But I can't fight with a nineteen year old over his weight. It won't help. Another note: Psychiatric medication can starve you and make you hungry all the time. I gained 80 lbs. on one and finally lost it, but I'll never be thin again because of the medicatioin. Some medications can make your complexion worse too (Lithium is one, I believe).</p><p></p><p>Now about the cell phone and the shoving. NO WAY JOSE! I would have called 911 and the phone would have been history, even if I had to call the phone provider and tell them to deactivate her number. There is no way a sixteen year old is going to do that to me and get away with it.</p><p></p><p>As for grandma...I'd just let her words go in one ear and out the other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 544995, member: 1550"] I side with difficult child about hair and face (her hair, her face), natural consequences. That isn't something you can force. She's too old and I think she'll either get it or she won't. My son is nineteen, on the autism spectrum, and we have to use a reward system to get him to shower every day. He is also overweight and we did all we could to take him for extensive testing to see why he was so hungry all the time and also to a nutritionist. Now that he is nineteen there is nothing, nada that we can do to force him to lose weight. He's not home enough and we've tried every possible consequence to make him care, including the truth about what obesity does to your health, but he doesn't care. He lives in the moment. Maybe one day he will care. I deeply hope so. But I can't fight with a nineteen year old over his weight. It won't help. Another note: Psychiatric medication can starve you and make you hungry all the time. I gained 80 lbs. on one and finally lost it, but I'll never be thin again because of the medicatioin. Some medications can make your complexion worse too (Lithium is one, I believe). Now about the cell phone and the shoving. NO WAY JOSE! I would have called 911 and the phone would have been history, even if I had to call the phone provider and tell them to deactivate her number. There is no way a sixteen year old is going to do that to me and get away with it. As for grandma...I'd just let her words go in one ear and out the other. [/QUOTE]
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