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Looking for advice concerning my 13-year-old
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 671428" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Thirteen. I'm guessing, if she skipped a year, grade 9? Yikes! Hormones, teenage pressure, and spending all her time with older kids. Add some additional life stress - the divorce, plus a major move, two of the biggest stressors in life - and... It's not hard to see where she's coming from.</p><p> </p><p>Adoption muddies the waters. These kids already feel like misfits, even when they love their families and are in stable environments.</p><p> </p><p>What did she have to give up in making the move to a new city, new school, etc.? Friends, for starters, but there will be other things. Any way to replace some of that?</p><p> </p><p>In general there are two approaches when we find our kids are on drugs. Some take a hard-line, tough-love approach, and sometimes it works. Sometimes it backfires, and there is no sure way to tell ahead of time. Others dig to get to the root of the problem and make changes there, and that's not a guarantee either because it takes time, and our kids can be in over their heads really fast.</p><p> </p><p>I will be starting a private conversation with you as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 671428, member: 11791"] Thirteen. I'm guessing, if she skipped a year, grade 9? Yikes! Hormones, teenage pressure, and spending all her time with older kids. Add some additional life stress - the divorce, plus a major move, two of the biggest stressors in life - and... It's not hard to see where she's coming from. Adoption muddies the waters. These kids already feel like misfits, even when they love their families and are in stable environments. What did she have to give up in making the move to a new city, new school, etc.? Friends, for starters, but there will be other things. Any way to replace some of that? In general there are two approaches when we find our kids are on drugs. Some take a hard-line, tough-love approach, and sometimes it works. Sometimes it backfires, and there is no sure way to tell ahead of time. Others dig to get to the root of the problem and make changes there, and that's not a guarantee either because it takes time, and our kids can be in over their heads really fast. I will be starting a private conversation with you as well. [/QUOTE]
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