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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 377537" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I would definitely put a lock on the bedroom door, and include one of those $12 magnetic contact alarms on it and the bedroom windows. They're loud as all get-out and your difficult child would be deterred - at least initially - from alerting the neighbors to her activities.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, I would tend to agree that the police are only right about what you can and can not do about difficult child-2 in so far as criminal court goes. What we did with M when he was so out of control was seek the advice of a Juvenile Justice attorney as to how to protect our lives and our belongings. He had broken the law and there was a hearing. We needed to know what we could do to force the issue. The judge was more than happy for us to put him in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) which the insurance paid - temporarily - for. After that, he was on probation and it was the judge who set the rules. It wasn't just our boundaries and it was clear to him that if he came to our home and misbehaved, he'd end up in the system. That wasn't a chance he was willing to take.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying it was a wonderful solution to M's problems, but it did allow us to protect everything that we had worked so hard for. It put the brakes on him riding rough-shod over our lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 377537, member: 99"] I would definitely put a lock on the bedroom door, and include one of those $12 magnetic contact alarms on it and the bedroom windows. They're loud as all get-out and your difficult child would be deterred - at least initially - from alerting the neighbors to her activities. FWIW, I would tend to agree that the police are only right about what you can and can not do about difficult child-2 in so far as criminal court goes. What we did with M when he was so out of control was seek the advice of a Juvenile Justice attorney as to how to protect our lives and our belongings. He had broken the law and there was a hearing. We needed to know what we could do to force the issue. The judge was more than happy for us to put him in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) which the insurance paid - temporarily - for. After that, he was on probation and it was the judge who set the rules. It wasn't just our boundaries and it was clear to him that if he came to our home and misbehaved, he'd end up in the system. That wasn't a chance he was willing to take. I'm not saying it was a wonderful solution to M's problems, but it did allow us to protect everything that we had worked so hard for. It put the brakes on him riding rough-shod over our lives. [/QUOTE]
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