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<blockquote data-quote="DaveS903" data-source="post: 229232" data-attributes="member: 6571"><p><span style="color: #0f2637"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks for all the encouragement! My wife is coming over in a bit to spend the weekend and I will get her to post some more info. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0f2637"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Here are a few answers to some of the questions.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0f2637"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">He was diagnosed by a psychiatrist and he has been an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital 4 times (5-7 days) where he was evaluated and given intensive behavioral therapy. He has been on quite a few different medications but I am not sure of the names. He sees the psychiatrist every month and had been seeing a behavioral therapist before he and his mom moved out. The therapist told us he wasn't sure he could help the difficult child because nothing he said seemed to be getting through. We are continuing with the therapy next week.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0f2637"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">His biological father used drugs and is currently in prison (agg. sexual assault of a minor). If I remember correctly, she said threw him out because he was smoking pot with his friends while he was babysitting. He last saw the difficult child as a two week old infant. From what I understand, my wifes brother had issues similar to our difficult childs issues. In addition, her father (RIP) was an alcoholic.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0f2637"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The book is <em>Positive Discipline for Teenagers </em>by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott. The version I have is an older version but there is a current version on Amazon.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0f2637"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I came into the picture when the difficult child was 6 (by the way - he turned 16 last week) but I'm told he was the perfect baby but started showing behavioral problems as a toddler. He attended a very small private religious school (1:8 teacher/student ratio) until the second grade and his mom always lived close to her parents. He had a lot of individual attention. His problems became more pronounced when he started attending public school (he got in a lot of trouble). He has exhibited inappropriate behavior with other kids. For instance, his day care asked that he not return due to him exposing himself to other kids. He doesnt seem to have a normal sense of right and wrong. He either claims whatever he does is OK because he really wanted to do it or blames someone else for his problems. When something major happens, his attitude seems to be, OK, thats over. Everything is OK now. Remorse is a foreign concept to him.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0f2637"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">His behavior with his friends now seems to be dysfunctional at times but more or less OK. He gets a lot of rejection from kids due to his behavior and tends to be a chameleon he mimics whatever friend will have him and tries to buy their friendship with gifts.</span></span></p><p> </p><p>Again, thank you for the information and encouragement!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaveS903, post: 229232, member: 6571"] [COLOR=#0f2637][FONT=Verdana]Thanks for all the encouragement! My wife is coming over in a bit to spend the weekend and I will get her to post some more info. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0f2637][FONT=Verdana]Here are a few answers to some of the questions.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0f2637][FONT=Verdana]He was diagnosed by a psychiatrist and he has been an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital 4 times (5-7 days) where he was evaluated and given intensive behavioral therapy. He has been on quite a few different medications but I am not sure of the names. He sees the psychiatrist every month and had been seeing a behavioral therapist before he and his mom moved out. The therapist told us he wasn't sure he could help the difficult child because nothing he said seemed to be getting through. We are continuing with the therapy next week.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0f2637][FONT=Verdana]His biological father used drugs and is currently in prison (agg. sexual assault of a minor). If I remember correctly, she said threw him out because he was smoking pot with his friends while he was babysitting. He last saw the difficult child as a two week old infant. From what I understand, my wifes brother had issues similar to our difficult childs issues. In addition, her father (RIP) was an alcoholic.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0f2637][FONT=Verdana]The book is [I]Positive Discipline for Teenagers [/I]by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott. The version I have is an older version but there is a current version on Amazon.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0f2637][FONT=Verdana]I came into the picture when the difficult child was 6 (by the way - he turned 16 last week) but I'm told he was the perfect baby but started showing behavioral problems as a toddler. He attended a very small private religious school (1:8 teacher/student ratio) until the second grade and his mom always lived close to her parents. He had a lot of individual attention. His problems became more pronounced when he started attending public school (he got in a lot of trouble). He has exhibited inappropriate behavior with other kids. For instance, his day care asked that he not return due to him exposing himself to other kids. He doesnt seem to have a normal sense of right and wrong. He either claims whatever he does is OK because he really wanted to do it or blames someone else for his problems. When something major happens, his attitude seems to be, OK, thats over. Everything is OK now. Remorse is a foreign concept to him.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0f2637][FONT=Verdana]His behavior with his friends now seems to be dysfunctional at times but more or less OK. He gets a lot of rejection from kids due to his behavior and tends to be a chameleon he mimics whatever friend will have him and tries to buy their friendship with gifts.[/FONT][/COLOR] Again, thank you for the information and encouragement! [/QUOTE]
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