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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 635223" data-attributes="member: 15801"><p>OK you need to protect your grandbaby and your 14 year old. It is horrible when we have to protect our children from their siblings but we have to do it. One of the main reason we did not let my son come back and live at different points along the way was because of my daughter. She was 15 when we kicked him out. We also had sent my son earlier to a therapeutic boarding school. And truly I think doing that helped save her. She is now 19, in college and doing wonderfully. I dont know what would have happened if we had let him stay at home, but all the things along the way have been trauma enough for her. I think if we had let him stay here she would not be doing so well now. Really. So your responsibility at this point is to protect your younger child, and I know how hard that is when your older child is so troubled!! But your older child is now and adult.</p><p></p><p>I will say that now we probably would not let him live here because we ourselves do not want to live with that kind of trauma. That is not necessarily a closed book forever, but not until he shows he can live a good productive life without using drugs.</p><p></p><p>It is an amazing feeling when your home becomes a place you want to be again. I love being home now... where there was a time when I couldnt wait to get out of the house.</p><p></p><p>TL</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent using ConductDisorders mobile app</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 635223, member: 15801"] OK you need to protect your grandbaby and your 14 year old. It is horrible when we have to protect our children from their siblings but we have to do it. One of the main reason we did not let my son come back and live at different points along the way was because of my daughter. She was 15 when we kicked him out. We also had sent my son earlier to a therapeutic boarding school. And truly I think doing that helped save her. She is now 19, in college and doing wonderfully. I dont know what would have happened if we had let him stay at home, but all the things along the way have been trauma enough for her. I think if we had let him stay here she would not be doing so well now. Really. So your responsibility at this point is to protect your younger child, and I know how hard that is when your older child is so troubled!! But your older child is now and adult. I will say that now we probably would not let him live here because we ourselves do not want to live with that kind of trauma. That is not necessarily a closed book forever, but not until he shows he can live a good productive life without using drugs. It is an amazing feeling when your home becomes a place you want to be again. I love being home now... where there was a time when I couldnt wait to get out of the house. TL Sent using ConductDisorders mobile app [/QUOTE]
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