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<blockquote data-quote="Fran" data-source="post: 382082" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Farmwife, I think one of the most important issues is mindset. If you feel you are punishing him or throwing him away, he will feed off of that and/or feel that way.</p><p>This is a tool. It will not cure him but it will help him start to set boundaries. It is a gift to let him have a chance to turn his life around. </p><p>By the time I sent my difficult child to a residential program, I had tried everything else there was and had NO success. I believe that if you try something else like Residential Treatment Center (RTC), you have to let them do what they do. What we did didn't work and I had to have a leap of faith. It's difficult to entrust someone with the well being of our child but my child's well being wasn't being served by the way we (professionals, schools both private and public and us) were going about it. </p><p>I was eternally grateful to have the respite and the opportunity to have 24/7 help. I could not do it and have a family and a life. </p><p>I always told difficult child that we couldn't seem to help him and this program would help him more. As soon as he could change his behavior then he was welcome to come home. He was always loved and always a member of the family. He had to learn how to deal with his emotions to live with us though. </p><p>We had no insurance or sd coverage. Didn't even know you could get it. I hadn't found the site when I initially sent difficult child there and no one told us differently. We figured it was our problem how to pay. How uneducated we were but my difficult child was drowning and taking all of us with him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fran, post: 382082, member: 3"] Farmwife, I think one of the most important issues is mindset. If you feel you are punishing him or throwing him away, he will feed off of that and/or feel that way. This is a tool. It will not cure him but it will help him start to set boundaries. It is a gift to let him have a chance to turn his life around. By the time I sent my difficult child to a residential program, I had tried everything else there was and had NO success. I believe that if you try something else like Residential Treatment Center (RTC), you have to let them do what they do. What we did didn't work and I had to have a leap of faith. It's difficult to entrust someone with the well being of our child but my child's well being wasn't being served by the way we (professionals, schools both private and public and us) were going about it. I was eternally grateful to have the respite and the opportunity to have 24/7 help. I could not do it and have a family and a life. I always told difficult child that we couldn't seem to help him and this program would help him more. As soon as he could change his behavior then he was welcome to come home. He was always loved and always a member of the family. He had to learn how to deal with his emotions to live with us though. We had no insurance or sd coverage. Didn't even know you could get it. I hadn't found the site when I initially sent difficult child there and no one told us differently. We figured it was our problem how to pay. How uneducated we were but my difficult child was drowning and taking all of us with him. [/QUOTE]
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