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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 38849" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Mikey,</p><p></p><p>You sound like me when my difficult child was still in high school. She was smoking pot and doing heaven knows what else but I was totally focused on keeping her in school. </p><p></p><p>Well, she finished high school with honors and even finished a year and a half of college. At the same time, she was smoking pot and hanging around with loser friends. Eventually, she just stopped going to classes (3 semesters in a row) and I had to face up to the fact that as long as she was smoking pot she would never have the motivation and focus she needed to be successful in college.</p><p></p><p>We kicked her out after we found pot in her room (this was after we had let her move back in once to "get her life together"). She is now living in an apartment and doing relatively well but is stuck in a dead end job (pizza delivery) and living a marginal existence. She still thinks partying is cool and doesn't see the effect it is having on her life.</p><p></p><p>In retrospect, I wish we had been tougher when she was 17. If I had to do it again, I would have sent her to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and not worried about whether she graduated on time or not. In the long run, your difficult child can always finish school but he needs to get his act together first.</p><p></p><p>I'm with the others who say your wife should have called the police. Make him face the consequences ~ you are making it easy for him to smoke pot and laugh off your concerns. Things will only go down from here.</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry that you have to go through this. Our difficult child's 17th and 18th years were the worst years of my life. </p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 38849, member: 1967"] Mikey, You sound like me when my difficult child was still in high school. She was smoking pot and doing heaven knows what else but I was totally focused on keeping her in school. Well, she finished high school with honors and even finished a year and a half of college. At the same time, she was smoking pot and hanging around with loser friends. Eventually, she just stopped going to classes (3 semesters in a row) and I had to face up to the fact that as long as she was smoking pot she would never have the motivation and focus she needed to be successful in college. We kicked her out after we found pot in her room (this was after we had let her move back in once to "get her life together"). She is now living in an apartment and doing relatively well but is stuck in a dead end job (pizza delivery) and living a marginal existence. She still thinks partying is cool and doesn't see the effect it is having on her life. In retrospect, I wish we had been tougher when she was 17. If I had to do it again, I would have sent her to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and not worried about whether she graduated on time or not. In the long run, your difficult child can always finish school but he needs to get his act together first. I'm with the others who say your wife should have called the police. Make him face the consequences ~ you are making it easy for him to smoke pot and laugh off your concerns. Things will only go down from here. I'm sorry that you have to go through this. Our difficult child's 17th and 18th years were the worst years of my life. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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