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Spoke to difficult child I wish I could....
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 39358" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>RM...I used many of those tactics when Jamie was in boot. The one thing you didnt want to do with a kid in boot was to make them worry, bring them down, or get too preachy. So I would make my letters basically chatty.</p><p></p><p>I would talk about home and kind of superficial. I would be somewhat motivational. A go boy, you can do it letter. That may not be exactly fitting here but you can fit something in like "Dad and I are sure that you will work hard to turn your life around to learn from what you are going through now." Then sometimes I would send letters with fill in the blanks for him to send me back. Such as...what sorts of things do you eat? What is the best thing to eat, what is the worst. Do you go outside? etc.</p><p></p><p>I would copy cartoons I would find that he would like. I would send pictures of the family I would print on the backs of his letters. Pictures of his dogs. Pictures of fishing. Stories about fishing. Anything. LOL. </p><p></p><p>It is really hard to find something to talk about when you are trying to write letters every day to someone which is what I was doing when he was in boot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 39358, member: 1514"] RM...I used many of those tactics when Jamie was in boot. The one thing you didnt want to do with a kid in boot was to make them worry, bring them down, or get too preachy. So I would make my letters basically chatty. I would talk about home and kind of superficial. I would be somewhat motivational. A go boy, you can do it letter. That may not be exactly fitting here but you can fit something in like "Dad and I are sure that you will work hard to turn your life around to learn from what you are going through now." Then sometimes I would send letters with fill in the blanks for him to send me back. Such as...what sorts of things do you eat? What is the best thing to eat, what is the worst. Do you go outside? etc. I would copy cartoons I would find that he would like. I would send pictures of the family I would print on the backs of his letters. Pictures of his dogs. Pictures of fishing. Stories about fishing. Anything. LOL. It is really hard to find something to talk about when you are trying to write letters every day to someone which is what I was doing when he was in boot. [/QUOTE]
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