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Hi Mark, I’ve recently joined your support group. I have 3 kids – Zac 16 (17 in September), Shennae 14 (turned 14 in March) and Blair 12 (13 in October). I’m divorced and live with my partner of 3 years with his 20 year old son and 23 year old daughter. My kids get along reasonably well with Richard, my partner, although Shennae and Blair can tend to get a little argumentative with him. I’ve

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I wonder if you have some words for parents of ODD kids who are now adults? My daughter is 23 now, and entering prison for a DUI in which someone was injured. I love her so much, yet the past 10 years has been one long horrible "trauma" of some sort of another. It seems the moment she turned 13, she lost her mind and made it her mission in life to destroy mine! While she's greatly improved

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I have a son that just turned eighteen this past May, but due to my parenting, he has the maturity of a 14 maybe 16 year old. He has been through a lot from my perspective, although no physical abuse, emotional. I also know there are a lot of kids that have had it much worse. Over the course of the last two years I have learned a lot. I have been over protective and because I was trying to

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Hi Mark, I came upon your program some months ago whilst looking desperately on the internet for some help managing my (then 3 year old) daughter’s behaviour. Emma is the oldest of our two children (her brother is 2 years old) and she has been a challenging child with respect to being very strong willed with a tendency to “grumpiness” since birth. The main problem with this is the impact on

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Hi There I've just gone onto your web site for the first time today out of sheer desperation. Not to mention shedding bucket loads of tears over the last few days. My only child is my 13 yr old son who has changed overnight to be moody, aggressive, foul mouthed, rude, arrogant and just plain not my son? I need some help here please! Scott is a champion swimmer at the tender age of 13 he has

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My daughter is 13 years old, and she is very over-indulged and defiant with many of the signs and manifestations described in your eBook. I have decided to talk to her about setting the rules and establishing consequences (which is a totally unknown concept to her at home with her parents and grandparents, although her behaviour has been acceptable at school, at friends', etc.). I have

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Australia Thu 23:15 Hi Mark, I suppose what I'm really asking is at what point should we go and get our under age daughter and bring her home or is that the wrong strategy - should we wait for her to return - we are feeling pretty out of control at this point? Thanks I'm in need of specific actions please. Mark Fri 8:39 Try to get word to her that she is welcome to come home - but that there

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We're going through daily and nightly hell with our son. We're out of consequences. Even if there's a consequence he will agree for the sake of getting what he wants and then give hell when he doesn't get it. Every single time. Whether it be computer time, phone time, or going out, or anything lse. Agree a time limit with him He will go over it. Give him warnings. He'll say " in a minute" - we

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My son has never been diagnosed with Aspergers but there are some traits/symptoms that I do recognize in him. My son’s name is Alex and he is 17 years old. He was a happy child until he reached grade 7 where he started feeling that he did not fit in. Because he was bright and identified as gifted we sent him to a private school where the discipline was paramount. He was happy at first then

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My name is Rene and I'm writing to see if you can give me any guidance or leads for social services and/or any other type of programs that we may try to help my partner's 19 yr old. She has suffered for years with self destructive behaviors such as bulimia, cutting, drinking, drug use, stealing, lying and most recently arrested for DUI. She has recently gotten a job but is now faced with the

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i am at wits ends with my teenage boy... he nearly 17... has been let down in every way from my choices with men.. he doesnt really have amale role mopdel and i cant give him the one thing he screaming out for... his father... my boy pierce has a very big heart an puts on big front but deep down has alot of emotional issues, we clash, i try everything, i am on my own at moment an for the past 3

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My name is Kathy and I am the Step Mother of two teenage boys here in Cos Cob, CT (Greenwich). Tommy is 16 years old and James is 13 years old. In June 2003 their Mother died of a drug overdose. Tom and I started to date 5 months later. This is my first marriage and I have no biological children. My husband, Tom and I got married in July 2004 (one year after the death of his wife). Both

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I have a daughter who is 14 years old. She has stopped studying and refuses to listen to us parents. She went out with friends a few times (5 -6 times) but later we found out that she had been to the disco theatre and has been telling lies to us about many things. She gets annoyed and refuses to talk to us (her parents) The background is that I her mother I feel have been harassing her for

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We bought a chore chart, and he and my daughter both loved doing the chores and earning money for them. A couple of times I made him pay me for having to pick up his room, but overall his effort toward helping out was great. He had quit radding the pantry/fridge for unearned treats, and he was much more forthcoming with confessions of wrongdoing when picking fights with his sister. It seemed

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I am, as you put it, the classic over-indulgent parent, my daughters (17 and my youngest is 13) are high on self-esteem and low on motivation and self-reliance and they run rings around me, they do very little in the way of chores or schoolwork and regularly verbally abuse me through criticism and swearing. They say they can’t respect me because I have no backbone and let things go without

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I am wondering if your program will work for us. I am trying hard to be a grandparent to my grandson (16 yrs old). He has been kicked out of the house by his mother and his aunt and uncle because of his behavior. I don't want to give up on this child, but I am not exactly 30 or 40 anymore. I work outside the home and try to get him to school and just provide the best home life i can. But, I am at

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My husband and I were away for the past 3 days. Our teen was staying at her sister and brother-in-law's. At some point, either after school or during a school day, she came home and brought her boyfriend with her. She knows that we have the rule that she is not allowed to have anyone over while we are away. We had everything totally cleaned before we left as we are trying to sell our house

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About 10 months ago, my husband and I took on the responsibility of being kinship foster carers for my sister's 14 year old step son. However, I do most of the parenting as my husband is out of town 4 days a week. Both his natural mother (who abandoned him at 3 years of age) and his father have signed a court order that they are not willing to care for him any more. It has been a rough road but

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These are the issues we are currently having with our daughter: - lying constantly to us - not coming home for days at a time - never helping to do anything at home - does not follow any of our rules - consequences mean nothing to her - being disrespectful to her dad & I - cannot trust her at all - tells us what we want to hear & does opposite School is starting on Tuesday and we have a

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Like alot of other people, my teenager has been a hand full since he was little. But now at six foot four, he can be a destructive, abusive monster. When he smashes his way through our home with his fist or when he kicks the living daylights out of a door with such fierce hate, I cannot understand if he is normal – I don’t actually know what is normal anymore. He turns from being a calm person

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Leah, is the second oldest of five children. Her older brother Matt has severe adhd and asperger's syndrome. Hence we have spent many hours and much effort trying to help him. Leah, as a child never did learn to entertain herself. In the car driving or at home, all other kids could be happily entertaining themselves and Leah would get bored and within a few seconds, she would have someone

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We adopted a boy and his sister in 2001. At that time our son was 5 years old and our daughter was 8 years old. The daughter had abuse and sexal abuse before she was put into the system for adoption. The boy was only 2 before they entered the system. He seems to be normal except for allergies. She has ADHD and is a slow learner and also has allergies. She has had temper tamtams ever since

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Greetings from Australia! I recently came across your programme when, following the suggestion of a friend, I searched on line for help with my 15 year old daughter, Bek. Almost immediately I found your website and ... WOW! It was just what I needed. You seem to understand what I am dealing with here. The total background is far too complex for me to give it here now, but the basics are: I

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I really am at my wits end. I have cried my eyes out reading here..the validation..is so....powerful..I have been a counselor in the past, ironically, to teens(girls, the child in question is a boy, and has a mildly autistic brother, younger)He steals, lies, breaks things only eith special meaning to me..I'm a single parent. I have never left him..but in his very young age...I spit up with his

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My son has ADHD and I believe ODD after reading your articles/etc. We took him to a neuropsychologist at the age of 4 who told us he would either be a "hostage negoitiator" or a "mechanical engineer". He is smart and sweet but "no" seems to be a jumping off point for him to begin negotiating. He often blurts out in class - I just had a lengthy phonecall this am from school. They started on

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Here is my situation maybe you can help me maybe you can't. I have a 14 year old daughter that I have indulged since birth. At thirteen she hooked up with a boy,became the dark emo type, started sneaking out and having sex. I eliminated the boy from her life and things got better for a while. In the process of eliminating she met a girl in her school who I thought was from a good stable family.

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My 16 year old has been expelled from school for doing absolutely nothing the teachers wanted him to do. We have had him home for 3 months now, and he refuses to put any effort into getting a job, despite our consistent badgering for him to do so. He refuses to get out of bed at a reasonable hour, go to bed at a reasonable hour and is totally unmotivated to do anything. I have not given him any

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Last year I got married to a dual citizen from Israel. His daughter came over from Israel to live with us one year ago. Previously she was in a home with her father and grandparents. Her grandmother doted over her and instilled in this girl that she can do no wrong and that she should always be the center of attention. She was nearly 10 years old and could not pick out a matching outfit to

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Hi there Mr. Mark Hutten, M.A. My nearly 15 year old child has been giving us hell for the past 5 years: 1. responding badly as soon as me or her father say hi (she says shut up and leave me alone) 2. refuses to do her homework (she just flunked today first year of high school and she was a brilliant student till 8th grade) 3. started drinking alcohol 4. spends the whole day on facebook or on

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I came across you site and I wish you lived in Canada, it is so hard to get help with teens out of control, Children's Aide as far as I am concerned causes more trouble in a family than they help with. It is sad there is not a system that offered affordable help for young family's with teens, after all they are the next adults. It seems things are always left until the teen does something to

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There is a lot of background here so bear with me. I am emailing every link that I could find to your website to my son's remedial worker that we were working with prior to his lockup. I'm hoping to get some answers to what is going on with my adopted son through one of you. As expected, we're not getting much from the state. His biological sister disappeared from our rural home when she was

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I came across your website as I Googled for help in dealing with my 14 year old son. He just finished freshman year; a year filled with less than desirable grades, and increasing defiant behavior in the house. In February, he was suspended 10 days from school for fighting, which I then learned that he had done NOTHING in terms of school work the first four weeks of that semester. Facing all F’s

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My 16 yr old daughter just got arrested today for shoplifting in Walmart. She took a bunch of makeup, nail polish...small things that added up to about $75 so she was arrested and taken to the police station-even handcuffed. This was all VERY upsetting for her, and Walmart is pressing charges. Her 14yr sister was with her and although didn't take anything herself she knew what was going on. I

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My problem with the second one 17 years old but before I go more on my story I would like to introduce myself and my husband to you first full you must know Egyptian means ,Egyptian is very strict families, love their kids to obey there orders and if not they allowed to be hit as behaviour dieseline way of teaching them a lesson and withdraw any goods they allow for them like taking their mobile

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My son is now 19 and has been uncontrollable and has tries drugs and alcohol, He is antisocial. I am unable to find any real support and he has tried to commit suicide twice (once by hanging). I currently have him in hospital to stabilize his medications but believe he needs to make the adjustments himself rather than rely on meds. I have been supportive but in my love I think I have ruined

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My name is Diana Holley and I'm in a terrible dilemma right now. I'm not sure if I've waited too long. My daughter is 18 now and also the mother of a 2 1/2 year old little boy who is showing all the same signs of behavior. When I was looking into programs as far back as 5 years ago for my child, ALL of them were so expensive that I couldn't afford them, and my credit wasn't terrible, but I

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We adopted her at the age of 4 1/2 years old. She is 1/2 hispanic and 1/2 white. She has always been extremely self-willed. She also was diagnosed with ADHD when she was in the 3rd grade. She was on concerta up until this past fall. Or at least she was occasionally using it until she went to Middle School. Everything was fine up until she went to 7th Grade. She went from a small elementary

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I am the step mother of a very defiant 17 year old. He just left our home again for the numerous times to go stay with his mother. He was diagnosed 10 years ago of being bi-polar he is very high strung and easily angered. Five doctors and many therapists later....His biological mother took him off all his meds...Although, he still had problems none was as severe as her messing with the medicine

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I'm searching for help with my 14 year old son. He has been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and OCD. He takes Lexapro and is in counseling. He has had suicidal thoughts. His birth father was murdered while I was pregnant. I remarried and since have been divorced. My ex-spouse was physically abusive with him. A line on your site hit home with me..."I’m tired of seeing teenagers ruined because

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I am past the point of behavior management. I need to take him somewhere for treatment, cannot afford the cost of boot camp but do have insurance. He is disrupting the household which is just me and his younger brother. His father died 31/2 years ago but his behavior preceded that. He is defiant, manipulative, disrespectful toward all authority, he is seductive, manipulative and physically

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I have a 16 yr old son, about to be 17 next month, who has been difficult all his life, more so in the past couple of years and extremely in the past 6 months. He started using marijuana last year in Sept for approx 2 months. Then in February this year he used the 'legal high' Mephedrone for 10 days. He has been clean since, but his behaviour has been unbelievable, and I am at my wits end. A

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I am still having ongoing issues with my teenage daughter (almost 17). My frustration and anxiety levels have reached their max and I am at a loss as to what the best way is to deal with her. First of all, she was being very angry, defiant, skipping school, staying away from home for days at a time, etc. and we had finally had enough and sent her to a therapeutic boarding school as nothing we

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I know I've been too permissive in the past with our son because I've tried to compensate for and help him feel better about his many troubles. My husband and I are now faced with a serious problem that we would like to ask your opinion about. I will try to be as brief as possible, but I want to explain as fully as I can. My husband and I are both college graduates in our mid-50's, he's an

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I migrated to United States 6 years ago. Leaving behind my 6 kids, the youngest of whom is only 6 years old then and 3 years ago we were able to bring him here (just him). Anything and everything is always nice and OK the first time. Me and his now step dad don't have much problem with him during the first year he was here , he was into dancing, though just like most other kids the hardest was

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Up until 5 days ago, our 16 year old son would have been described by everyone who knows him as a "good kid". So, not knowing where to turn, and not having anyone that I can talk to, I came upon your site. I wasn't sure it would apply to our situation, but decided to give it a try. Yesterday I read all of session #1 and found it to be very appropriate and helpful. I cried off and on all

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My daughter is out of control or IS just trying to drive me crazy. Well it started about a month ago. She stopped hanging out with her friends . She started hanging out with different crowd of kids. she started missing class and lying about it. I did see a change in her but nothing I thought I had to worry about. Then last week she called me at work and she something happened.I had to get out of

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I live in Australia and I am at my wits end I am so close to just walking out I feel so angry, sad and depressed…. I have 2 girls one 17 and one 15 and a son 8 the girls rule the roost they scream every time they don’t get what they want and believe me I am no pushover I do stand my ground trying to keep some control as a parent….. my husband works very long hours so he is not there to help very

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My son has always been somewhat arrogant, has never done real well in school (although he was passing), and has been a "story teller" since he could talk. However, his attitude has progressed. Now that he is bigger than me, and outweighs me, he uses intimidation and threats to get what he wants. I have never abused my son. I admit, when he was little, and when pushed to exteme he has gotten a

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I'm a mother of 2 beautiful girls, sadly my eldest was killed, my marriage broke down and I lost all my assets. All this happened in 2 years. I have since brought my youngest daughter up single handed. She is 14 and has just started to date, I feel that although she is young in age she is old in the head. She/we both have been through many tough times together and I have tried to give her the

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I have finished reading your article about children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and the list of behaviours pin point the attitude of my daughter to the 'T'. She is disrespectful towards her elders as well as to anybody else she takes a fancy to, she has been rejected from one school due to her disruptive behaviour and refusal to do as she is told, which led me to home tutor her for

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I am one of those parents who are in the rocky boat with a very defiant teen! People don't believe that this all started at a VERY early age. At the age of 3, Sam was sent to his room for a time out. After about 35-40 minutes he stopped kicking his door and screaming at the top of his lungs (I had to go outside so I would not commit "child abuse!" When I went in to check on him, He had destroyed

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My toughest parenting challenge is that my daughter (who is 16) is very disrespectful and I’m a widowed mother. My husband her, father died 6 years ago when she was 10. She was very close to him and she was disrespectful to me at times over the years before his death. However, all he had to do was talk with her and her behavior would change for quite a while. Her disrespect causes a great

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I have been off work since September under going further investigations (Had a stroke 3 yrs ago and a heart op a year ago. Now being investigated further due to more problems) We are finding it very hard money wise and struggling to pay all bills. My 14 yr old daughter has given us many unwanted events and we are trying to follow your advise the best we can. Unfortunately I dont know how to

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My daughter has actually left our home, and moved 15 hours away to stay with my parents, who I do not get along with. I feel that she has gone there as she knew they would side with her, as my mother has always been very manipulative and undermined me, and I made the decision years ago, that I would involve her in our lives so that the children would have a sense of family, but that I would be

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My name is Judy, and I'm writing because I have a 17 year old son who I have has issues with for a very long time. My son and I never seemed to get along very well. We seemed to "butt heads" literally from day one. I have two other children, one older than he, and one younger. I don't have ANY behavior issues, other than the usual "testing the boundaries" with them. Things became much worse

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My 16 year old son is praised for his kindness to his classmates at school and is generally considered to be a nice polite boy. He is also extremely kind to most people outside school (ie friends and cousins). There are a few teachers whom he does not respect in the slightest and who say he is extremely rude and gets angry very quickly. This is how he is towards me. When he is struggling with

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We have an out of control teen (drinking and he recently got caught drinking at baseball practice) and not coming home on time, totally disrespectful to the parents. I'm his stepmother and he's 16. I've been in his life for 7 years now, married for 5. He's lived with us for 2 because his mom couldn't handle him. He is basically a good kid but not to his parents. I don't really know what to

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I am writing to you today and tell you about my daughter. She is just 18 and in December of 2009 decided it was time for her to move out on her in another city, just 20 minutes from her family. In the last year she has become very rebellious and prior to that she has steadily becoming unruly for the past 3 years. We have been to counseling and she never saw a psychiatrist who diagnosed her with

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I have a situation, that has me totally perplexed. I have a brilliant, bright daughter. She is 17, she is in the top 5% of her class, her grades have always been high honors, she does community work, she tutors. She is involved in lots of after school activities. Her teachers praise her highly of being the perfect student/daughter and mentor.At home, she is a terror. I would say she bullies

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After reading the information provided about your e-books, etc. I am hopeful but still scared. My life, even with weekly counseling for my daughter, is so bad that we have almost been kicked out of my mother’s home, due to her defiant and aggressive behavior. She is failing school due to refusal to turn in homework, she steals from other family members and has a "whatever" or "I don't care

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Our son Patrick entered this world miraculously to us and to various doctors. ( the phenomenon then almost 18 years ago was rare) Arlette's first pregnancy (Chantal 27 years) was traumatic, life threatening and dangerous for both. The second pregnancy +- 9 years after Chantal was born ended up into a miscarriage, due to complications, bad health, but also negligence from her then gynecologist.

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I wish to briefly (will make every effort) describe my son's behavior of late. He is 17 - will be 18 in May. He is a junior in high school. He was a perfect child - never grounded, never punished, never admonished for doing less than his best, a coach's dream - until he entered 10th grade. So none of these character traits existed prior to that time. They are not consistent with his

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My wife and I are grandparents to our five year old grandson. We basically are doing all the parenting and are having an increasingly difficult time managing the behavior of our grandson. Basically, we are at the end of our rope with this behavior as it is affecting our lives to the point that we have lots of friction, little serenity and very little fun in our lives. (Not to mention no personal

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My daughter does not live at home with us but we are still contributing to her support. She has been through many treatment programs since the age of 14, has done just about everything at this point (drugs, alcohol, prostitution) but has gone to therapy and at this point is not involved in any of this (I don't think). She had been on many different medicines in the past thinking she was bipolar,

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I have a 17 year old son who turns 18 in 5 days. He graduated from high school a year early thru an Open Door program, and has sat in his room for the most part playing WOW on the computer for the past 6 months, occasionally applied for jobs, but mostly sleeps all day and then plays the computer all nite. He and his dog had destroyed my downstairs where his room is, it was always trashed and a

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My husband and I have 2 sons aged 19 and 16, our 19 year old did give us problems when he was younger but not like this. Our youngest son has now been in constant trouble for the last 2 years, we moved house 2 years ago, at great expense, to a better area and closer to his school hoping that he would be happier being closer to his friends as he was a very quiet child who rarely went out. He

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1) My daughter will not come home after school - goes over to her boyfriend's everyday w/o our permission2) My daughter will not come home on the week-ends - leaves on Friday after school and may return for an hour or so on Saturday to shower and change and then leaves again and not home again until Sunday night.(had taken off this summer for over a week with this boyfriend and we had no idea

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We have been having trust issues with our daughter. I am in serious need of finding a starting point with her right now and was hoping you could help. I will make it as brief as possible.She just turned 16 in July has been at least 3.0 student and been in her sport for 6 years. In comes "BOY" "15 with minimal parenting". Since he has entered her life she has lost most of her privileges, i.e.

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We have a 16 year old son who was diagnosed with ADHD-Inattentive at the end of last school year. He is a junior in high school this year. He is nearing the end of the first quarter of this school year, and is currently earning two D's, a C, and an F. He will be taking night school because of the F (it is in advanced algebra and his grade is too far gone to pull it up at this point). He is a

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My name is Melissa Hamilton and I have a 13 year old son. He has recently decided I guess that listening to me (instructions and such), bringing home good grades, and not doing his chores is the route in his life he wants to take. I have tried everything I know to try...I by no means feel I have tried everything there is to try, but everything I know to try!! I know he is not a bad kid...just

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My 19 year old has ADHD. And my 13 year old does. I have been having problems with him since he went back to his dads for the school year. He is not doing his school work, he says its boring, he forgot it, he lost it etc... Even after promising me he will do it. He comes here on my weekends and is highly disrespectful, has temper tantrums worse then when he was 3 yrs old. Gets withdrawn,

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We have a 15 half year old daughter that for three years now, is showing clear signs of rebellion that will result in terrible consequences if we can find a way to better deal with it. Although she is not your "typical" rebellious disrespectful child who shows it to authority figures, she is very respectful and kind to her teachers and other adults, to us (my husband and I) its a different story.

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I am totally at my wits-end with my teenager daughter….she is almost 15 and rebels against everything.1. She refuses to go school a lot of the time.2. She uses me for lifts / money / etc.3. She is abusive and swears if she doesn’t get her own way.4. Has damaged her bedroom.5. Has been violent to me in the past.6.

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I have three children and two of them are great and I am at my wits end with my other child. She turns 14 today. I have punished her, taken away all of her priveledges and her favorite things that she enjoys and none of it gets to her. When I punish her, the other two have to suffer a little with her and they are great straight "A" students and its not fair to them. Just, please send me the out

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I have a 16 year old daughter. She ran away from home a couple of weeks ago for a week as she didn't like our rules. Said she wanted her freedom. She finally came home but was only home for a couple of days off and on and then moved in with her sister. I feel bad for my older daughter as I don't think that is fair to her to have her sister there when she is so rebellious. We are both trying

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My wife and I are at our wits end - we moved to New Zealand from South Africa 13 years ago and to our dismay found that the discipline non existence in the schooling here - unlike South Africa. And we came to get away from the violence in South Africa. (Where my kids were exposed to seeing this - even to the point of seeing me being Hijacked at gunpoint outside my own home by four AK-bearing

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I am the girlfriend of a man that has a 17 year old son. My boyfriend is his biological father, Josh was raised by his mother and her now ex husband. His mother remarried a very young man 4 years ago, whom Josh fought with so bad that he had to move out of his mother’s home and live with his step dad. His step dad has recently been remarried. Mark (his father, my boyfriend) has been an every

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My name is Cameron, we have a family of 2 daughters, my wife & I, although have have had normal family problems over the years things in general have been well with our family (or so we thought) since the last 2 weeks when we discovered our 14 yr old daughter had been lying to us about many things over the years.Our first discovery was her school books with F*** written all over them which is

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My son is 15 years old. For the last 6 months he's been addicted to online gaming and through this, he's got acquainted with some really bad company who are older in age, some of whom are school dropouts or just jobless. He's been taught to smoke, drink, go clubbing, sex etc.He's also been taking money from home to keep up with his extravagant lifestyle. His school grades have deteriorated and

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I have an 18 year old son that got mixed up in Oxycoden and Hydrocoden he said for 2 years he had been doing these. He went into the hospital for 5 days in June and the doctor put him through a detox program in the hospital and then told him he must go to an inpatient program as the success rate is only 2% that he could detox and stay clean on his own. Well guess what I found out today that he

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I have stumbled onto your website after searching for a solution with my 2 teenage stepchildren. We are in Australia, and we are what they call a "blended family". My wife has a 15 year old son and a 13 year old daughter living with us, and we have a 3 year old son together. I also have a 12 year old daughter and an 11 year old son that reside with their mother, and we fly them up every school

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My son J was recently diagnosed with ODD. He has always been stubborn, intense and argumentative. He has ALWAYS, even as a toddler, had NO problem at all going toe to toe with me. I am frequently EXHAUSTED from arguing with him about seemingly everything or nothing. Some days though, he’s great-and I mean really great. I get fabulous reports from teachers-always have-and he has a black belt

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I have 2 teenage boys that are out of control.Jordan is 17. He has his GED but chose to go back to high school because his girlfriend was there. I am not sure what the status of that is because he started skipping a lot of school towards the end of the month. He drinks some but mostly smokes weed. He has had 3 jobs that all ended the same. He decides not to go in and I guess quits that way.

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David has been diagnosed with, Aspergers, ADD, ADHD and ODD. He attends a special boarding school. He takes 36mg of Concerta XL and .5mg of Risperidone daily. He is basically an egotistical, lazy, oppositional, argumentative, self centered teenager who believes that he is entitled to every privilege and needs not put anything back. Fortunately, as his mother, I try to understand him and I do

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I have been with my husband for nearly 8 years, and combined we have 6 children and all of them seem to be showing the same signs of disrespect and out of control behaviour. We have no children to each other, I have 4. My eldest is nearly 22 and moved out when he was about 15, then I have a daughter which is nearly 21,she moved out when she was 16. My third boy is 15 he ran away from home in May

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My teenage girl is out of control. What should I do? I have been a homeschooling parent for the past 6 years. All was fine, when she hit teenage status things started to change. Rebellion kicked in. She started refusing to do work and/or lying about doing it. We started having conflict. I have always taken my children’s education very seriously. When I felt that my teenage daughter was pulling

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My name is Connie and I have my 2nd generation foster granddaughter living with me,( her mother was my foster child from age 6 ),so I say my daughter and my grand daughter. She is 9 yrs old and is a handfull most of the time,the rest of the time,she is a warm,caring,loving child(25% of the time),the other 75% of the time,she is a demon from hell.She is very destructive,she tears up her things,our

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I came about you website desperate for answers....all of the other troubled websites talk of sending you child away to a boarding school...I AM not at that point yet.Briefly, I am an attorney, but a single mother, father is for the most part absentee...but for a brief period of time, have always lived with my mother and sisters, which is part of the problem I believe. While raising her, I was

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My son has gotten to the point where he does not appreciate anything! He expects it. I raised him and told him that in life you have to work for what you want. My question is this... My son is going on a retreat with the church for a week. I only let him go so maybe he would listen and we could have some peace. I have already taken everything away, tv, computer, cell phone the car. My

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As a christian I have been praying for my grandaughter who is 11 years of age because she has been a difficulty for my daughter. My daughter has had on going problems with diciplining her and last night my daughter calls me out of desperation and said that they got into a physical fight because Janessa (my grandaughter) refused to get off of her brothers bed and they continued to challenge each

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I am living with my boyfriend who has custody of his 13 year old daughter. She is a great kid, but at times she gets real jealous and tries to isolate my 3 year old son and I. She and I have a good relationship most of the time except when her mood hits. We spend time together and have fun doing so, but when her dad is around, she turns into this whole other person and the turmoil begins. The

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My ex and I divorced over 5 years ago. We're amicable most of the time. We live close to one another and had joint custody until I joined the Army nearly 3 years ago. I'm out now and he still has full custody, although the girls stay with me most of the time. His mother and I are at our wits end with my 13-year-old daughter who lies habitually, is disrespectful, especially to her grandmother and

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My child is very troubled, I have not seen her for 7 years and before that I only saw her three times in from the age of 5 to 10.I was in the Special Forces and worked for the government when Roxanne was 10 I came back into her life and walked away after two months for her own safety. Her mother now knows this and so does Roxanne.We got together 3 months ago me and her mother and stepdad and

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My son is sixteen and failed 4 classes this past school year. Halfway through the year he said he was failing because he "hates living in this house with me, my husband and his 6 year old brother". We have rules, consequences etc..and now I know that I indulged him way too much for 16 years (although he doesn't have a tv or computer in his room) and he seriously seeks intensity from me! The

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I found your website while looking for help for my soon-to-be 18 year old daughter. She has physically and mentally worn me out for the past 3 years. I’m a divorced mom with dad out of the picture (his choice) and I’ve raised her alone since she was 6 years old. Will your program still help her? She lives with me now but left for 5 months to live with her boyfriend. In the state of Texas

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My daughter is now 16yrs old. At age 10 (2003) she witnessed her father physically abuse me as well as constant verbal abuse and much arguing. Unfortunately she was put in the middle and told by dad "this is what happens when you don't listen."Charges were filed and we went through the legal system's process of obtaining a CPO and divorce. Supervised visitation was ordered, individual counseling

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My son has always been classified as adhd until 7 months ago when he acted out sexually with a dog. He was then put in the hospital for observation and after he was tested. The doctor told us he has a condition similar to autism, he has control issues. He has the ability to make good descions but chooses not to. The doctor told us part of his brain does not function like everyone elses reguarding

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I have a just-turned-17 year old daughter who has always been a difficult, but good, kid. She will be a Senior in high school in the fall and seems to be feeling very stressed about the whole idea of growing up. She is hard-of-hearing, uses sign language as her first language but hangs out mostly with hearing kids (she is in public school with sign language interpreter support in the classroom

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My daughter is only 13 years old and HELL on wheels, She gets in my face and cusses me She has hit me due to the fact that she cussed me out and I slapped her mouth... well She hit me back , this last time she pulled a knife on me. I was the one who went to jail for domestic because I didn't tell on her for the knife. Alexis is out of control Her father kicked her out of his home after her living

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I am currently experiencing difficulty with my 19 year old son. He started out at a state college last fall and ended up flunking out after the first semester. He told us he was going to turn things around and we believed him and let him sign up at the local community college but he again ended up with the same result. He is constantly lying to us and has no direction. He was working a

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