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Your house/your rules -How to stop 17 yo from using pot in house?
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<blockquote data-quote="RN0441" data-source="post: 705885" data-attributes="member: 15032"><p>Percy</p><p></p><p>You are painting yourself in a corner here with enabling him to do this to you and your family in your home.</p><p></p><p>All we can do is offer advice or what we have tried/done with our own Difficult Child. This situation probably will not change and could get much worse as drug use usually does escalate. You want to protect him from himself but you can't.</p><p></p><p>The situation must really bother you or you would not have posted here. Usually we as parents are at our wits end when we start scouring the internet for answers.</p><p></p><p>It seems that you see no way out from this situation as everything you do to counter his behavior, you worry how your son will see it. I thought that too for some time as it seems many kids that age, especially boys, "party". Some are able to hold it all together and not piss off their parents. I don't think you are asking too much for him to respect your home and your rules. You are asking the bare minimum.</p><p></p><p>Maybe he can't stop smoking pot or doing whatever other drugs he may be doing. Maybe he doesn't want to stop. The final thing that husband and I did was see an addictions specialist and he gave us the advice to tell son he has two choices once we saw he would not follow our rules: Rehab or find a new place to live. He chose rehab but has had many setbacks with that too. </p><p></p><p>Good luck. This is hard stuff. I know. This was our youngest that gave us problems. Honestly if we had younger children seeing this behavior, my husband would have acted immediately. He would never have allowed anything in his home going on like that for younger children to be affected by.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RN0441, post: 705885, member: 15032"] Percy You are painting yourself in a corner here with enabling him to do this to you and your family in your home. All we can do is offer advice or what we have tried/done with our own Difficult Child. This situation probably will not change and could get much worse as drug use usually does escalate. You want to protect him from himself but you can't. The situation must really bother you or you would not have posted here. Usually we as parents are at our wits end when we start scouring the internet for answers. It seems that you see no way out from this situation as everything you do to counter his behavior, you worry how your son will see it. I thought that too for some time as it seems many kids that age, especially boys, "party". Some are able to hold it all together and not piss off their parents. I don't think you are asking too much for him to respect your home and your rules. You are asking the bare minimum. Maybe he can't stop smoking pot or doing whatever other drugs he may be doing. Maybe he doesn't want to stop. The final thing that husband and I did was see an addictions specialist and he gave us the advice to tell son he has two choices once we saw he would not follow our rules: Rehab or find a new place to live. He chose rehab but has had many setbacks with that too. Good luck. This is hard stuff. I know. This was our youngest that gave us problems. Honestly if we had younger children seeing this behavior, my husband would have acted immediately. He would never have allowed anything in his home going on like that for younger children to be affected by. [/QUOTE]
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