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<blockquote data-quote="Mag" data-source="post: 35673" data-attributes="member: 227"><p>It's not easy to call the police on your own child....even when things are really bad. At the same time I don't want it to become an idle threat. But with today being so horrible, I ended up putting him in the car an hour or so ago and going down to the PD. I felt like he needed to know we meant business and that we were running out of options as far as handling him went...that we weren't going to accept having things thrown at us and being hit and kicked and punched. The officer we met with was very nice. He gave him some straight talk about what would happen if they had to come out to the house, about being taken either to a hospital or to Juvenile Detention (and how since difficult child is only about 4'10" and 95 lbs at 17 years old) he'd be the bottom of the ladder as far as 'rank' goes. He didn't try to scare him, especially, but he did try to give him a honest picture that it wouldn't be a piece of cake. </p><p></p><p>So while I don't think this is going to drastically change him, I hope it will at least curb him a bit for now....and I feel I've broken the ice if we really NEED to call them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mag, post: 35673, member: 227"] It's not easy to call the police on your own child....even when things are really bad. At the same time I don't want it to become an idle threat. But with today being so horrible, I ended up putting him in the car an hour or so ago and going down to the PD. I felt like he needed to know we meant business and that we were running out of options as far as handling him went...that we weren't going to accept having things thrown at us and being hit and kicked and punched. The officer we met with was very nice. He gave him some straight talk about what would happen if they had to come out to the house, about being taken either to a hospital or to Juvenile Detention (and how since difficult child is only about 4'10" and 95 lbs at 17 years old) he'd be the bottom of the ladder as far as 'rank' goes. He didn't try to scare him, especially, but he did try to give him a honest picture that it wouldn't be a piece of cake. So while I don't think this is going to drastically change him, I hope it will at least curb him a bit for now....and I feel I've broken the ice if we really NEED to call them. [/QUOTE]
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