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When no amount of discipline and rewards seem to work?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ehlena" data-source="post: 403179" data-attributes="member: 6097"><p>Thanks. I am doing my best to protect myself. I used to take him on individual visits, but I just don't feel comfortable handling him on my own anymore. He's almost as strong as I am now, and this makes me nervous. On the practical side, I know I am doing everything I can.</p><p> </p><p>On the emotional side...he can be so unpredictable. Sometimes he's such a sweet kid. Making drawings for his dad and I (still does this), made me breakfast on my birthday without any prompting from dad, used his allowance to buy a t-shirt for one of the younger kids in foster care - I can think of a lot of examples where he's been a really good kid.</p><p> </p><p>But then he turns around and is being aggressive towards the same younger kid, commits sexual battery at school, steals, gets suspended, smokes pot and drinks...I mean, how do you reconcile all of this? I sometimes feel like he's a good kid trapped in this cycle of misbehavior. And it's like he genuinely can't understand why what he's doing is wrong. Ugh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ehlena, post: 403179, member: 6097"] Thanks. I am doing my best to protect myself. I used to take him on individual visits, but I just don't feel comfortable handling him on my own anymore. He's almost as strong as I am now, and this makes me nervous. On the practical side, I know I am doing everything I can. On the emotional side...he can be so unpredictable. Sometimes he's such a sweet kid. Making drawings for his dad and I (still does this), made me breakfast on my birthday without any prompting from dad, used his allowance to buy a t-shirt for one of the younger kids in foster care - I can think of a lot of examples where he's been a really good kid. But then he turns around and is being aggressive towards the same younger kid, commits sexual battery at school, steals, gets suspended, smokes pot and drinks...I mean, how do you reconcile all of this? I sometimes feel like he's a good kid trapped in this cycle of misbehavior. And it's like he genuinely can't understand why what he's doing is wrong. Ugh. [/QUOTE]
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