Natural consequences-painful to watch
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Natural consequences-painful to watch
| Mon, 05-14-2007 - 1:05pm |
I posted last week about DS18 leaving home, getting a motorcycle etc. He definitely won't be graduating high school now, we're only 2 weeks away from the end of the term. He's been gone a little over a week, I haven't heard from him and now it looks like he has stopped going to school altogether. He's not responding to my emails either. I know that at this point we're in Tough Love land, but it's very hard to watch. Has anyone out there had to standby and watch natural consequences take their course and not be able to do anything about it? It's like he's driving off a cliff and everyone knows it but him. Yesterday was Mother's Day and not a word from him either. And a big question in my mind is when he finally does contact us, how should we be with him? I resent the idea of playing nice and walking on eggshells just to keep him in contact, when I really want to grab him by the scruff and shake some sense into him. I know, these are his choices, but my brother made eerily similar choices and is just now realizing how he messed up (he's 50 years old!).

I know all about how painful it is to watch natural consequences - fortunately not as severe as yours.