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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 344540" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>My youngest started his round of out of home placements when he was 11. Of course, we questioned ourselves over the years. He loved his first placement, a wilderness camp, so we didnt get the cries to come home. The next rounds of psychiatric hospitals, group homes and then finally Residential Treatment Center (RTC), well he wasnt so happy about. He did do the pouting and crying wolf a few times. We just stood strong. Did it make a big difference? I will never know. My son kind of had to learn from the school of hard knocks as an adult. He is on probation for a couple of felonies and that seems to be what turned him around. I take it day by day hoping he keeps on the right side. All I can do. </p><p></p><p>Now I have a middle son who went into the Marines and those first few weeks he was in boot camp...omg...those letters were horrible! He was so homesick and he was so miserable that we cried every time we got a letter. I wanted nothing more than to go rescue my baby from big bad Uncle Sam! LOL. I couldnt though. I had to just keep sending letters back telling him how I knew he could do it, I was so proud of him. He made it. He is ADHD and when he graduated, we never saw such a still ADHD kid standing in that group...lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 344540, member: 1514"] My youngest started his round of out of home placements when he was 11. Of course, we questioned ourselves over the years. He loved his first placement, a wilderness camp, so we didnt get the cries to come home. The next rounds of psychiatric hospitals, group homes and then finally Residential Treatment Center (RTC), well he wasnt so happy about. He did do the pouting and crying wolf a few times. We just stood strong. Did it make a big difference? I will never know. My son kind of had to learn from the school of hard knocks as an adult. He is on probation for a couple of felonies and that seems to be what turned him around. I take it day by day hoping he keeps on the right side. All I can do. Now I have a middle son who went into the Marines and those first few weeks he was in boot camp...omg...those letters were horrible! He was so homesick and he was so miserable that we cried every time we got a letter. I wanted nothing more than to go rescue my baby from big bad Uncle Sam! LOL. I couldnt though. I had to just keep sending letters back telling him how I knew he could do it, I was so proud of him. He made it. He is ADHD and when he graduated, we never saw such a still ADHD kid standing in that group...lol. [/QUOTE]
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