round & round we go
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Lurking around for a couple of days, reading other post and I can so relate to many of them. Never posted on a message board or forum before so if I am messing up, please forgive me. My daughters behaviour problems did not just start suddenly, she has always been a ''hand full.'' She is currently at an evaluation center at juvenile justice for breaking her probation. This is her second trip to same place, last time she was there for 45 days. She is now on a list waiting for placement and has been told she will be sent to some camp for the summer. Once she is out, she will then be on probation again, which means more court ordered classes, probation officer meetings, community service etc etc. It truely never ends and that is why is picked the name round & round we go. It seems to be an endless cycle yet it is coming to an end, well at least the juvenile part is. She will be seventeen when she is released and her next go round will be the big girls jail. Broke her probation this time by getting kicked out of an alternative school which she had gotten sent to for assaulting another student. Before the probation officer could get the courts to order probation revoked, my dear little girl stole my debit card and used it to withdrawal the majority of my social security check from my account. She has in the past done some pretty low things but never ever did I think that she would steal from me. I actually caught her with my card in her pocket leaving to go stay with a friend....when I confronted her she threw the card at me and ran out the door....long story short she did not come back home so I reported her as a runaway and the fact she had stolen the money. The police here do not search for runaways so I once again had to do the detective work and track her down, call the police dispatch and tell them where she was, eight days later. That was three weeks ago. Am I upset that she is locked up....yes & no, yes because she didn't learn her lesson the last time in lock up. No, because when she is locked up, I know where she is, who she's around and that she is safe and off the streets. Not sure I am gonna let her come back or not.....How many times do you go through all this again and again???
7 runaway charges
2nd time on probation
court odered to attend school
2nd time assigned to alternative school
past drug abuse (pee pee clean now)
cutter (slashed her arm over 80 times)
self tattoo's by scaring skin
failed 2 preventive programs for teens
been held for evaluations after suicide treats
sexually active
low self esteem
been in mental health counceling since middle school
shoplifts
lies
steals
abusive towards me in the past
I could go on and on but so worn down. I told her the first time she was in lock up that if she were to ever return there, I would not come visit her and I have stuck to my word. It's hard but it's almost three hours there and I have problems driving long distance with my disablity. Plus the fact the money she stole was being saved to fix my old car......Talked to the mental health people she has been seeing for so long and even they told me...get her out of your house..you've done all you can do. Wow.
Opps sorry so long. Nice to rant and no ones gonna judge.....
7 runaway charges
2nd time on probation
court odered to attend school
2nd time assigned to alternative school
past drug abuse (pee pee clean now)
cutter (slashed her arm over 80 times)
self tattoo's by scaring skin
failed 2 preventive programs for teens
been held for evaluations after suicide treats
sexually active
low self esteem
been in mental health counceling since middle school
shoplifts
lies
steals
abusive towards me in the past
I could go on and on but so worn down. I told her the first time she was in lock up that if she were to ever return there, I would not come visit her and I have stuck to my word. It's hard but it's almost three hours there and I have problems driving long distance with my disablity. Plus the fact the money she stole was being saved to fix my old car......Talked to the mental health people she has been seeing for so long and even they told me...get her out of your house..you've done all you can do. Wow.
Opps sorry so long. Nice to rant and no ones gonna judge.....