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What Do You Do About the Bad Peers Who Are Instrumental in Your difficult child's Descent?
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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 449743" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>I did everything possible to eliminate the "friend" from easy child/difficult child's life. Not! Once they bond with troublemakers they have crossed the line into inappropriate choices. Peers are more important than family even when they are totally respectful and loving to family as our boy was. I visited parents. I only allowed visiting with kids that I believed were ok. I never once went to sleep until he was in the house and I was then 60ish. I am known, and respected, as X's</p><p>Gramma in all social economic levels. One bad friend begets more bad frriends and the battle, in my humble opinion, can not be won by parental perseverance. The only valuable actions either come from the difficult child (rarely happens once they are in a pattern of poor choices) or on lucky occasions from residential substance abuse treatment. I know this sounds very negative but in my humble opinion eliminating "a bad friend" isn't going to change the pattern BUT I really, truly wish you better luck than I had. I have the tenacity of a bull dog and I lost the battle. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 449743, member: 35"] I did everything possible to eliminate the "friend" from easy child/difficult child's life. Not! Once they bond with troublemakers they have crossed the line into inappropriate choices. Peers are more important than family even when they are totally respectful and loving to family as our boy was. I visited parents. I only allowed visiting with kids that I believed were ok. I never once went to sleep until he was in the house and I was then 60ish. I am known, and respected, as X's Gramma in all social economic levels. One bad friend begets more bad frriends and the battle, in my humble opinion, can not be won by parental perseverance. The only valuable actions either come from the difficult child (rarely happens once they are in a pattern of poor choices) or on lucky occasions from residential substance abuse treatment. I know this sounds very negative but in my humble opinion eliminating "a bad friend" isn't going to change the pattern BUT I really, truly wish you better luck than I had. I have the tenacity of a bull dog and I lost the battle. DDD [/QUOTE]
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