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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 217097" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Crud toto..........you just posted the same post I was going to. Seriously. This same question has been crippling me all day.</p><p></p><p>So whatta you do?</p><p>How do you determine that our difficult children are mentally competent or capable of living on their own?</p><p>And if not what are the options?</p><p>What do you do with a kid like M that has a great heart, but can't seem to follow it?</p><p>How do you keep the legal system from eating them?</p><p>How do you keep your own motherly sanity?</p><p>How do you help them be successful?</p><p></p><p>SSDI is only money - but then what do they do? Sit back and melt into their own sofa cushions because rent is paid for? </p><p></p><p>I mean if M is kicked out of this Residential Treatment Center (RTC), then I have 3 choices.</p><p>Send him to yet another program.........which now that he has been violent, means more of a juvy setting.........</p><p>or demand he get a job, grow up, and provide a roof over his head..............</p><p>or let him live with me.</p><p></p><p>Truthfully I don't see any one of those working.</p><p>He is too mentally unstable and emotionally immature to provide for himself, get a job, pay rent, etc........</p><p>Too lazy to stay with me...........</p><p>And too much of a good soul to be in a juvy type setting. He would be so scared that he would run for his life - or just become one.</p><p></p><p>God I need insight, and help. We all do.</p><p>Thanks Toto for posting this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 217097, member: 3301"] Crud toto..........you just posted the same post I was going to. Seriously. This same question has been crippling me all day. So whatta you do? How do you determine that our difficult children are mentally competent or capable of living on their own? And if not what are the options? What do you do with a kid like M that has a great heart, but can't seem to follow it? How do you keep the legal system from eating them? How do you keep your own motherly sanity? How do you help them be successful? SSDI is only money - but then what do they do? Sit back and melt into their own sofa cushions because rent is paid for? I mean if M is kicked out of this Residential Treatment Center (RTC), then I have 3 choices. Send him to yet another program.........which now that he has been violent, means more of a juvy setting......... or demand he get a job, grow up, and provide a roof over his head.............. or let him live with me. Truthfully I don't see any one of those working. He is too mentally unstable and emotionally immature to provide for himself, get a job, pay rent, etc........ Too lazy to stay with me........... And too much of a good soul to be in a juvy type setting. He would be so scared that he would run for his life - or just become one. God I need insight, and help. We all do. Thanks Toto for posting this. [/QUOTE]
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