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Spoke to difficult child I wish I could....
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 39199" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Ahhh RM...been there done that and STDT. I dont know how not to be preachy. Every time I go see Cory I preach. I spend half the time I am there going over and over how many years I have spent trying to keep him from being exactly where he is now. </p><p></p><p>I think part of it is that I have spent so many years being his advocate and that is a role I know so well and feel comfortable in. It is alike a second skin to me. This is something I know how to do. I know how to look for services and deal with him being in treatment. </p><p></p><p>When they were younger and in placements and such...we did always "preach" the therapeutic talk. We tried to drill this stuff into their heads in hopes that it would sink in. I think I am still in that mode now. </p><p></p><p>Maybe for you if you want to give it up you could find something to have in common with him. Can you send him books? Would he read them? Then you could discuss them in your letters. Does he get to watch any tv? Discuss a tv show. What is he interested in? Maybe you could find a way to incorporate that into your letters. Maybe there is a way to send some sort of game in your letters...a suduko game maybe...or word search. You could write your letter on the computer and print one out on the back of your letter and he could send it back to you or something. Or just discuss it with you on the next phone call. Maybe search for comics online that he would find funny and include them in your letters. </p><p></p><p>I dont know...just throwing out ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 39199, member: 1514"] Ahhh RM...been there done that and STDT. I dont know how not to be preachy. Every time I go see Cory I preach. I spend half the time I am there going over and over how many years I have spent trying to keep him from being exactly where he is now. I think part of it is that I have spent so many years being his advocate and that is a role I know so well and feel comfortable in. It is alike a second skin to me. This is something I know how to do. I know how to look for services and deal with him being in treatment. When they were younger and in placements and such...we did always "preach" the therapeutic talk. We tried to drill this stuff into their heads in hopes that it would sink in. I think I am still in that mode now. Maybe for you if you want to give it up you could find something to have in common with him. Can you send him books? Would he read them? Then you could discuss them in your letters. Does he get to watch any tv? Discuss a tv show. What is he interested in? Maybe you could find a way to incorporate that into your letters. Maybe there is a way to send some sort of game in your letters...a suduko game maybe...or word search. You could write your letter on the computer and print one out on the back of your letter and he could send it back to you or something. Or just discuss it with you on the next phone call. Maybe search for comics online that he would find funny and include them in your letters. I dont know...just throwing out ideas. [/QUOTE]
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