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<blockquote data-quote="CAmom" data-source="post: 38376" data-attributes="member: 1835"><p>Karen, funny you should mention me. I was thinking, when I read Mikey's post, particularly the wording his son used, how very similar his and my son sound! </p><p></p><p>In terms of what to do, I was thinking back on the advice our psychotherapist gave us last summer (although he misunderstood and was laboring under the assumption that our son was 17 rather than the 16 he actually was at the time and would not be turning 18 in a month but 17) which was to give him nothing and "let him go!" At the time and a couple of weeks later, when "letting him go" resulted in him getting himself into legal trouble, I really felt that that was bad advice. </p><p></p><p>Now, I can see that no matter what we might have said or done, the result probably would have been the same, UNLESS we had used our psychotherapist's "last-ditch-effort" plan which was to admit that he was out of our control and send him off to a reform type treatment faciltity.</p><p></p><p>My only regret is that we didn't do that at the time. I'm not a doomsayer by nature, but I really believe that a kid who is so blatantly defying his parents and the law is bound for trouble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CAmom, post: 38376, member: 1835"] Karen, funny you should mention me. I was thinking, when I read Mikey's post, particularly the wording his son used, how very similar his and my son sound! In terms of what to do, I was thinking back on the advice our psychotherapist gave us last summer (although he misunderstood and was laboring under the assumption that our son was 17 rather than the 16 he actually was at the time and would not be turning 18 in a month but 17) which was to give him nothing and "let him go!" At the time and a couple of weeks later, when "letting him go" resulted in him getting himself into legal trouble, I really felt that that was bad advice. Now, I can see that no matter what we might have said or done, the result probably would have been the same, UNLESS we had used our psychotherapist's "last-ditch-effort" plan which was to admit that he was out of our control and send him off to a reform type treatment faciltity. My only regret is that we didn't do that at the time. I'm not a doomsayer by nature, but I really believe that a kid who is so blatantly defying his parents and the law is bound for trouble. [/QUOTE]
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