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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 111446" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>It sounds like you have all the bases covered Peaceful. You are right, you're lucky you're in Lake County. I believe you are in good hands and have the support you need from her therapist and psychiatrist. With your connections I'm sure you don't need an attorney at this point, if it were Cuyahoga County that would be different.</p><p></p><p>Three days in detention really opened up my difficult child's eyes. She cried when they made her stand, take off her jewelry, put her hands behind her back and walk out of the courtroom with the officer. I was out of town that day, went to NYC with my easy child because the trip had been planned for months and husband swore that nothing serious would happen at that meeting. My husband went to law school with the attorney we hired for difficult child and in our conferences with him we told him how worried we were about her and all of the things we tried that haven't worked and how she needed to change or she would find herself in jail at some point. He in turn talked to the magistrate and they decided on sending her to juvie for the weekend to teach her a lesson. That would not have happened with any other case because of the overcrowding in Cuyahoga County and the fact that the charges did not include violence. But there were two felony charges and two misdemeanors, nothing to sneeze about.</p><p></p><p>difficult child came out of juvie a different person. I think for the first time in her life she understood consequences to her behavior. She said she never wanted to go back there and did not blame us for her being there even though we were the ones who filed the charges. The juvenile detective in our city had many conversations with us and he said that there are some kids who really benefit from juvie and those hardened ones who don't and he pegged her for being one that could be saved.</p><p></p><p></p><p>One of my husband's partners lives in Mentor and she is very familar with Lake County courts.</p><p></p><p>I agree with wanting her to develop the tools now that she needs to live in society. That was mine and husband's main concern for her. We could have closed our eyes and let happen what would happen like many parents do around where I live, but I know that unless we interceded she would be lost, she would never understand that there were rules that had to be followed and consequences to every behavior. </p><p></p><p>by the way you are correct that the surest way find yourself in juvie is domestic violence. My difficult child said almost all the other teens that were in juvie with her were there because of domestic violence. Would she go to juvie downtown or does Lake County use another facility?</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 111446, member: 59"] It sounds like you have all the bases covered Peaceful. You are right, you're lucky you're in Lake County. I believe you are in good hands and have the support you need from her therapist and psychiatrist. With your connections I'm sure you don't need an attorney at this point, if it were Cuyahoga County that would be different. Three days in detention really opened up my difficult child's eyes. She cried when they made her stand, take off her jewelry, put her hands behind her back and walk out of the courtroom with the officer. I was out of town that day, went to NYC with my easy child because the trip had been planned for months and husband swore that nothing serious would happen at that meeting. My husband went to law school with the attorney we hired for difficult child and in our conferences with him we told him how worried we were about her and all of the things we tried that haven't worked and how she needed to change or she would find herself in jail at some point. He in turn talked to the magistrate and they decided on sending her to juvie for the weekend to teach her a lesson. That would not have happened with any other case because of the overcrowding in Cuyahoga County and the fact that the charges did not include violence. But there were two felony charges and two misdemeanors, nothing to sneeze about. difficult child came out of juvie a different person. I think for the first time in her life she understood consequences to her behavior. She said she never wanted to go back there and did not blame us for her being there even though we were the ones who filed the charges. The juvenile detective in our city had many conversations with us and he said that there are some kids who really benefit from juvie and those hardened ones who don't and he pegged her for being one that could be saved. One of my husband's partners lives in Mentor and she is very familar with Lake County courts. I agree with wanting her to develop the tools now that she needs to live in society. That was mine and husband's main concern for her. We could have closed our eyes and let happen what would happen like many parents do around where I live, but I know that unless we interceded she would be lost, she would never understand that there were rules that had to be followed and consequences to every behavior. by the way you are correct that the surest way find yourself in juvie is domestic violence. My difficult child said almost all the other teens that were in juvie with her were there because of domestic violence. Would she go to juvie downtown or does Lake County use another facility? Nancy [/QUOTE]
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