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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 294694" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Here's another vote for letting her go off to college. It will give you and your husband a respite and there is always a chance she will love it and decide that she wants to stay and clean up her act.</p><p></p><p>Do I think that is likely? No, but it is worth the try. . . and your husband is right about letting someone else be the bad guy. The real question for you and your husband is to figure out what you are going to do if/when she does get kicked out or flunks out of school. We set up our difficult child in an apartment and told her that we would pay x amount of months for her and then she would have to take over. Of course, she ended up getting evicted once we stopped paying and it started a long period of being homeless and sleeping on friends' floors. I which I could be more positive for you but do keep in mind that my difficult child did eventually start to figure things out.</p><p></p><p>One more thing about finding the drugs. My difficult child recently told me that she used to hide her drugs in a stuffed toy that she has had since she was two. She used to open the seam in the back of "Bunny" and stuff drugs in there. I never, ever suspected that was the reason she used to take Bunny when she went to spend the night at friends' houses when she was in high school. </p><p></p><p>I don't know why she felt the need to tell me about it now. I would have been happy living the rest of my life without knowing that.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 294694, member: 1967"] Here's another vote for letting her go off to college. It will give you and your husband a respite and there is always a chance she will love it and decide that she wants to stay and clean up her act. Do I think that is likely? No, but it is worth the try. . . and your husband is right about letting someone else be the bad guy. The real question for you and your husband is to figure out what you are going to do if/when she does get kicked out or flunks out of school. We set up our difficult child in an apartment and told her that we would pay x amount of months for her and then she would have to take over. Of course, she ended up getting evicted once we stopped paying and it started a long period of being homeless and sleeping on friends' floors. I which I could be more positive for you but do keep in mind that my difficult child did eventually start to figure things out. One more thing about finding the drugs. My difficult child recently told me that she used to hide her drugs in a stuffed toy that she has had since she was two. She used to open the seam in the back of "Bunny" and stuff drugs in there. I never, ever suspected that was the reason she used to take Bunny when she went to spend the night at friends' houses when she was in high school. I don't know why she felt the need to tell me about it now. I would have been happy living the rest of my life without knowing that. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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