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<blockquote data-quote="mom_to_3" data-source="post: 242357" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>You know Suz, she has even considered private school for him. Yes sireee! This from someone that dropped out of high school and has yet to complete her GED. This stuff makes me livid. She is playing everyone. She tells the CASA worker that she has learned from me and will continue to seek out my advice, then tells me that she would NEVER raise her son the way I raised her. </p><p></p><p>When I told her that I needed to speak to her, she became very argumentative and of course said I was being judgemental and that she could raise her son like she wants. Not like me.</p><p></p><p>Of course I said you are free to raise your son any way you chose, but remember that there are many people watching. There is no one right way to raise a child, but there ARE some accepted guidelines. I asked her if she preferred that I speak to her now, privately or wait until we get before the judge in open court to express my concerns?</p><p></p><p>She is now doubting his teacher. Maybe she is doing something to set him off? Maybe he doesn't play with the other children because it may just be that group of kids. He kicks and hits other children because it's perfectly age appropriate behavior. He roams in and out of classrooms when the teachers are not there, getting into their things, when he should be elsewhere because............... It's fun! No one should be trying to change "him". He can be who he wants!</p><p></p><p>I ask her, at what point do we teach our children how to "conform" to society, to age appropriate behaviors and activities? If we don't expect and teach and reward and consequence, our children don't learn. Her response....................... My high school drop out difficult child will just home school him, keep her son home until he learns how to play nice. Very nice. That ought to do the trick, right? His social skills are lacking greatly.</p><p></p><p>She's putting me in a very bad place, on so many levels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mom_to_3, post: 242357, member: 30"] You know Suz, she has even considered private school for him. Yes sireee! This from someone that dropped out of high school and has yet to complete her GED. This stuff makes me livid. She is playing everyone. She tells the CASA worker that she has learned from me and will continue to seek out my advice, then tells me that she would NEVER raise her son the way I raised her. When I told her that I needed to speak to her, she became very argumentative and of course said I was being judgemental and that she could raise her son like she wants. Not like me. Of course I said you are free to raise your son any way you chose, but remember that there are many people watching. There is no one right way to raise a child, but there ARE some accepted guidelines. I asked her if she preferred that I speak to her now, privately or wait until we get before the judge in open court to express my concerns? She is now doubting his teacher. Maybe she is doing something to set him off? Maybe he doesn't play with the other children because it may just be that group of kids. He kicks and hits other children because it's perfectly age appropriate behavior. He roams in and out of classrooms when the teachers are not there, getting into their things, when he should be elsewhere because............... It's fun! No one should be trying to change "him". He can be who he wants! I ask her, at what point do we teach our children how to "conform" to society, to age appropriate behaviors and activities? If we don't expect and teach and reward and consequence, our children don't learn. Her response....................... My high school drop out difficult child will just home school him, keep her son home until he learns how to play nice. Very nice. That ought to do the trick, right? His social skills are lacking greatly. She's putting me in a very bad place, on so many levels. [/QUOTE]
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