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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 294887" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Nomad,</p><p></p><p>I looked into that sort of place for my difficult child. The ones that I saw were prohibitively expensive. One was about $100,000 for a year. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/speechless.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":speechless:" title="speechless :speechless:" data-shortname=":speechless:" />There was no way I would even consider spending that kind of money (even if we had it) on my difficult child when I knew that she didn't want to change and it would just be a gigantic waste of money. The programs looked great, though, because they focused on living skills along with taking college classes. I doubt we could have forced her to go, anyway. Most of the programs seemed to be out west and she would never have agreed to go.</p><p></p><p>We also looked at a $10,000 intensive outpatient program for our difficult child that focused on young adults from 18 - 22. difficult child even agreed to go but I knew that she was only agreeing because she had nowhere else to go and it wouldn't have made any lasting change. At the time, I remember people on the site telling me when we were considering signing her up for the program that unless difficult child really wanted to change, that it would just be a waste of money. After the initial assessment, the doctor that ran the program told us that he didn't think difficult child was a good candidate for the program since he believed difficult child when she told him that she was not smoking pot every day and had only "experimented" with cocaine and ectasy a couple of times. Evidently, he saw my difficult child as more of a party girl than a hard core drug user. </p><p></p><p>Maybe he was right because time and maturity ended up being the answer for us but it was hell getting there. </p><p></p><p>Nancy ~ Keep posting . . . it was the only thing that kept me going during the dark days. </p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 294887, member: 1967"] Nomad, I looked into that sort of place for my difficult child. The ones that I saw were prohibitively expensive. One was about $100,000 for a year. :speechless:There was no way I would even consider spending that kind of money (even if we had it) on my difficult child when I knew that she didn't want to change and it would just be a gigantic waste of money. The programs looked great, though, because they focused on living skills along with taking college classes. I doubt we could have forced her to go, anyway. Most of the programs seemed to be out west and she would never have agreed to go. We also looked at a $10,000 intensive outpatient program for our difficult child that focused on young adults from 18 - 22. difficult child even agreed to go but I knew that she was only agreeing because she had nowhere else to go and it wouldn't have made any lasting change. At the time, I remember people on the site telling me when we were considering signing her up for the program that unless difficult child really wanted to change, that it would just be a waste of money. After the initial assessment, the doctor that ran the program told us that he didn't think difficult child was a good candidate for the program since he believed difficult child when she told him that she was not smoking pot every day and had only "experimented" with cocaine and ectasy a couple of times. Evidently, he saw my difficult child as more of a party girl than a hard core drug user. Maybe he was right because time and maturity ended up being the answer for us but it was hell getting there. Nancy ~ Keep posting . . . it was the only thing that kept me going during the dark days. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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