“How To Prepare Anti-Drug Talks”Reply to this Comment
Anti-Drug/Anti-Meth groups and governments worldwide link to
this 8-minute "Bad Habit Talk" tutorial: http://www.drugtalks.info
Parenting Teens with Eating Disorders Support GroupsReply to this Comment
Reaching Out Against Eating Disorders (www.roaed.org) is a not-for-profit eating disorder organization serving the New York metropolitan area and Long Island. ROAED offers one-on-one mentoring programs, weekly and bi-weekly support groups (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, men's group, friends and family, mothers of children with eating disorders), and information and referrals. All services are free of charge.
Book recomendationReply to this Comment
You HAVE to read the book The Lost Daughter by Daralyse Lyons!!! It so hits on all of this...
Parenting ToolsReply to this Comment
The Love & Logic Parenting program is an amazing program to help parents with their most important job--parenting. Parenting classes provide so many tools to help make parenting fun and build strong relationships with teens.
My son has become very rude to meReply to this Comment
I'm heartbroken. My 15 1/2 year old son's behavior towards me has changed 180 degrees for over 2 years now. If I speak to him, he acts as if he hasn't heard me and walks on. If I kindly ask him to do any task at all, he has a myriad of expressions. He rolls his eyes. He sneers at me. He murmurs things under his breath that I cannot understand. I probably don't want to understand it. He doesn't want anything to do with me.
But it hasn't always been this way. We were so very close just two short years ago. He told me that he loved me several times a day. He hugged me. He talked to me. We spent time together. That's all over now.
He has gotten a little better in the past month. He doesn't snub me in front of others like he had in the past. Now he only does it privately, when no one else is there.
He's sweet to his stepfather, sisters and brothers. His teachers love him. He has a great social structure. His friends are over all the time. They spend the night most Fridays and Saturdays.
I feed his friends. I give him money when he needs it, which seems to be quite often. I try to engage with him, but he clearly does not want that.
I put down my foot and told him that I needed a change in attitude once. He stormed out of the house and called his father to let him know he was moving in with him. His father lives 2.5 hours away.
I begged him to stay. Meanwhile, he called several friends and told them he was moving to another city. The thing is...his father cannot provide for him. He doesn't really want to move there. He just wants to make me miserable if at all possible. It feels like emotional blackmail. Where did he learn this crap? I don't act this way. My husband does not act this way. His father is quite difficult, but that's not part of this discussion.
I feel as though he doesn't love me any more. I just don't understand.
This is breaking my heart. It's gone on for so long, he doesn't seem to know how to react to me unless it's negative in some way.
How do I deal with this?
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By: Michael A. Sadler Posted: Nov 21 2007