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<blockquote data-quote="strugglingdad" data-source="post: 690853" data-attributes="member: 18750"><p>For a few weeks, he was doing so good. Staying in school, going to his group sessions, pleasant at home. His 17th B-day is in a few days, so last Friday we took him to a stage performance by a comedian/magician that he really likes, and the next day took him and some other kids (that we know and trust) to a big arcade to play games and get dinner. Was starting to think we were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And then the next day he missed his curfew by two hours and the next day after that decided to skip school altogether and hang out "at a friends house". Then today he said "my stomach hurts, I'm not going to school", to which I told him that we would not excuse him, so it would be just another day of violating his probation.</p><p></p><p>Since we're required by the court to notify his probation officer of any violations, I did that. She called him and I in to the school today and laid into him. He told her that he failed a drug test at group last week, which he was supposed to notify her of and that pretty much sealed his fate (we didn't know about the failed drug test because we're not with him at group and he didn't tell us). </p><p></p><p>She is going to her supervisor to have him removed from our home either into JDC or a shelter. And he still blames all of this on me because I 'ratted him out" to her. He hasn't learned a damn thing and has accepted no responsibility for his current situation. I wish I could get through to him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="strugglingdad, post: 690853, member: 18750"] For a few weeks, he was doing so good. Staying in school, going to his group sessions, pleasant at home. His 17th B-day is in a few days, so last Friday we took him to a stage performance by a comedian/magician that he really likes, and the next day took him and some other kids (that we know and trust) to a big arcade to play games and get dinner. Was starting to think we were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And then the next day he missed his curfew by two hours and the next day after that decided to skip school altogether and hang out "at a friends house". Then today he said "my stomach hurts, I'm not going to school", to which I told him that we would not excuse him, so it would be just another day of violating his probation. Since we're required by the court to notify his probation officer of any violations, I did that. She called him and I in to the school today and laid into him. He told her that he failed a drug test at group last week, which he was supposed to notify her of and that pretty much sealed his fate (we didn't know about the failed drug test because we're not with him at group and he didn't tell us). She is going to her supervisor to have him removed from our home either into JDC or a shelter. And he still blames all of this on me because I 'ratted him out" to her. He hasn't learned a damn thing and has accepted no responsibility for his current situation. I wish I could get through to him. [/QUOTE]
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