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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 80621" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Well.........after 6 years of homeschooling, taking difficult child to therapy, appts, and activities, it is all coming to an end. He will be 17 in ten days, and I start working full time this Sat. This is an abrupt end to a very loose lifestyle, one in which difficult child has become all to comfortable with. </p><p></p><p>It will now be up to him to get up each day for his GED classes (which start on his 17th BD), get ready, take his medications, take the dogs out, be ready for his ride, go to school, sometimes counseling, and come home and make sure he has picked up after himself (he is a slob), before I get home at whatever time. I know this sounds normal for most teenagers, but he is very immature, and very used to the "homeschooling life". I know I have enabled him WAY too much the last couple of years.......thus the BIG changes. </p><p></p><p>Please just stand with me in prayer or support that he will adapt to this without to much hoohaw, i.e. tantrums, rages, etc............and that I will be able to detach and let him fail if need be, without becoming too wrapped up in it. Forever I felt like I needed to fix everything in his life, somehow make it better........but I know now......that has done nothing but harm him. </p><p></p><p>It will be a huge lifestyle change, and one I hope he can swallow without going off the deepend........but regardless, it has been made and I will not reverse it. I can only hope he adapts without making any more chaos in his life, or mine. </p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p>Willow</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 80621, member: 3301"] Well.........after 6 years of homeschooling, taking difficult child to therapy, appts, and activities, it is all coming to an end. He will be 17 in ten days, and I start working full time this Sat. This is an abrupt end to a very loose lifestyle, one in which difficult child has become all to comfortable with. It will now be up to him to get up each day for his GED classes (which start on his 17th BD), get ready, take his medications, take the dogs out, be ready for his ride, go to school, sometimes counseling, and come home and make sure he has picked up after himself (he is a slob), before I get home at whatever time. I know this sounds normal for most teenagers, but he is very immature, and very used to the "homeschooling life". I know I have enabled him WAY too much the last couple of years.......thus the BIG changes. Please just stand with me in prayer or support that he will adapt to this without to much hoohaw, i.e. tantrums, rages, etc............and that I will be able to detach and let him fail if need be, without becoming too wrapped up in it. Forever I felt like I needed to fix everything in his life, somehow make it better........but I know now......that has done nothing but harm him. It will be a huge lifestyle change, and one I hope he can swallow without going off the deepend........but regardless, it has been made and I will not reverse it. I can only hope he adapts without making any more chaos in his life, or mine. Thanks Willow [/QUOTE]
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