wakeupcall
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Good Morning
I've been a member on this forum for years and years. I've not posted in a long time, but I read every day. I found I had very little to offer....'can't seem to get difficult child stable no matter what we do. Presently, difficult child's father and I are divorcing. Not really difficult child's fault, but his behavior certainly hasn't helped. Been married 41 years.
All difficult child does is argue. We can hardly stand it any longer. Until this school year, difficult child has done okay at school, but now that he's in high school, has more freedom, he's doing horribly. I, too, am tired. We've worked like dogs since he was three (he's fifteen) to make a difference and I don't think it's done a bit of good. He argues with everyone.....everyone. No matter what the topic is...he argues. It's exhausting.
We've had him in a partial hospitalization program for months....now, very diplomatically, they have kicked him out because he's so disruptive. All the time, all the money, all the whatever.......hasn't helped. I doubt the effectiveness that an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) could have with him, thus am probably not going to do that. We feel like failures as parents. He's living with his father because three therapists have said it isn't safe for him to live with me. He hasn't been put in jail yet, but it's around the corner. He's skipping school (what does the law think we can do about it when we don't know about it till it's the next day??). He broke the rope on a flagpole and now has a court hearing this month. He doesn't care and we are horrified and mortified.
It's very disheartening to think all this hasn't helped.
I've been a member on this forum for years and years. I've not posted in a long time, but I read every day. I found I had very little to offer....'can't seem to get difficult child stable no matter what we do. Presently, difficult child's father and I are divorcing. Not really difficult child's fault, but his behavior certainly hasn't helped. Been married 41 years.
All difficult child does is argue. We can hardly stand it any longer. Until this school year, difficult child has done okay at school, but now that he's in high school, has more freedom, he's doing horribly. I, too, am tired. We've worked like dogs since he was three (he's fifteen) to make a difference and I don't think it's done a bit of good. He argues with everyone.....everyone. No matter what the topic is...he argues. It's exhausting.
We've had him in a partial hospitalization program for months....now, very diplomatically, they have kicked him out because he's so disruptive. All the time, all the money, all the whatever.......hasn't helped. I doubt the effectiveness that an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) could have with him, thus am probably not going to do that. We feel like failures as parents. He's living with his father because three therapists have said it isn't safe for him to live with me. He hasn't been put in jail yet, but it's around the corner. He's skipping school (what does the law think we can do about it when we don't know about it till it's the next day??). He broke the rope on a flagpole and now has a court hearing this month. He doesn't care and we are horrified and mortified.
It's very disheartening to think all this hasn't helped.