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<blockquote data-quote="Love the sunshine" data-source="post: 185935" data-attributes="member: 5759"><p>Hi,</p><p>Thanks for the welcome. I've been "lurking" for about a month now. This site has been such a comfort to me.</p><p> </p><p>Things have always been a challenge with difficult child, but the past six months have really been trying for our family. To provide a little background for everyone, things really started to go downhill when my difficult child met a girl at a Christian sports camp last summer. She lives in Illinois, and we live in Kansas. She was 2 1/2 years younger than him. We did not know how young she was at the time. Long story, but in March, he stole my car to drive to Illinois to see her. Not knowing what else to do, and afraid he was on a severe downward spiral, we pressed charges, and he received diversion for deprivation of property.</p><p> </p><p>After one week of diversion, he was going through a typical rage/argument and was told to go outside until he "cooled down". While outside, he threw a water bottle at the house and broke the window above our front door. He lost diversion and was give 9 months of probation, including 1 month of house arrest (which he completed about 2 weeks ago). Before his court date for probation, we had to take him to the detention center (parental right to house) because he was out of control. He stayed for two days until his probation court date.</p><p> </p><p>For now, things are going a little better actually. As you all know, it's a day by day, hour by hour thing. But I can tell he is making some effort at least. School started last Friday - he is a senior in high school. We'll see how it goes. I'm learning/trying to detach - just lurking on this site has been so helpful for me in that regard. The hardest thing for me right now is knowing what to say when asked "So difficult child is a senior this year. What is he planning on doing? Where is he going to college?"</p><p> </p><p>For those of you that have read this looonnng post, thanks for sticking with me. I'm glad I found you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Love the sunshine, post: 185935, member: 5759"] Hi, Thanks for the welcome. I've been "lurking" for about a month now. This site has been such a comfort to me. Things have always been a challenge with difficult child, but the past six months have really been trying for our family. To provide a little background for everyone, things really started to go downhill when my difficult child met a girl at a Christian sports camp last summer. She lives in Illinois, and we live in Kansas. She was 2 1/2 years younger than him. We did not know how young she was at the time. Long story, but in March, he stole my car to drive to Illinois to see her. Not knowing what else to do, and afraid he was on a severe downward spiral, we pressed charges, and he received diversion for deprivation of property. After one week of diversion, he was going through a typical rage/argument and was told to go outside until he "cooled down". While outside, he threw a water bottle at the house and broke the window above our front door. He lost diversion and was give 9 months of probation, including 1 month of house arrest (which he completed about 2 weeks ago). Before his court date for probation, we had to take him to the detention center (parental right to house) because he was out of control. He stayed for two days until his probation court date. For now, things are going a little better actually. As you all know, it's a day by day, hour by hour thing. But I can tell he is making some effort at least. School started last Friday - he is a senior in high school. We'll see how it goes. I'm learning/trying to detach - just lurking on this site has been so helpful for me in that regard. The hardest thing for me right now is knowing what to say when asked "So difficult child is a senior this year. What is he planning on doing? Where is he going to college?" For those of you that have read this looonnng post, thanks for sticking with me. I'm glad I found you! [/QUOTE]
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