Yeppers!!! He did it again. My teen that is. Remember not to long ago I mention getting a call of my teen missing to many days at ALC. Well, today he did it again. Heck, I didn't realize he was home til my daughter told me. She was home because of her psychologist testing.
When I asked my teen about it. His excuse, I didn't get him up.
I was like hello you are eighteen years old with an alarm clock. You sayed up past midnight. What are you going to do in two weeks when I am living 1200 miles away in another state?
.........when is he going to grow up and quit blaming others for his mistakes?
I get up at 6 am to get my daughter up and around. She gets on the bus at 6:54 am. My middle son gets on the bus around 7:30 am. My husband leaves for work about 7:15 am. I go back to bed or hop on the computer after that. Depending on how I feel and what I have to do for the day. My teen gets on the bus around 8:30 am. I think he can get up when I get his siblings up and stay up. I really don't feel I should have to make sure he makes it out of bed. We all know he doesn't listen to me anyways.
I just want to smack the crap out of him.
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Your son is old enough to know when he is supposed to be up. He has no excuses. I would do something to punish him for his behavior. Hold something back, or ground him or no tv and no video games or computer until he gets his rear in gear!
I don't blame you for wanting to smack him but there are better ways of doing it.
My son is 8 1/2 years old and gets up when his alarm goes off!
My daughter on the other hand has always been a heavy sleepier. But she taked meds to sleep. So she is a little tougher to get up. But she does fairly well compared to my teen.
Last night he was whining about him going to be all alone for a week while my husband moves me and the two younger children up north. He don't know how he is going to get to his probation officer and other appointments. I said take the city bus or call one his friends. He made some excuse. I told him he had better fix my bike while I am gone than. As I am not going to make arrangements for him when I am gone.
Just like last night about midnight someone called my phone asking for him. I answered and said he was in bed. He wasn't but I don't want peple calling my phonethat late and will not put any calls through. This made him mad and we got in a fight about it. I say it is a respect thing. It is my cellphone, if I don't want calls that late at night waking me, I shouldn't have to bother with them. He claims I am over reactng and a simple phone call won't hurt anything. I now keep a code on my phone blocking him from calling out.
Seriously, when you've done all you can, you have to accept that and though you'll always worry, you did your best. KNOW THAT. Our son was great until "after" he left home and HE knows that he's responsible for the consequences of his actions. WE are not. Nor are you.
Hang in there,
Mar~
I wonder if it is the weather effecting out teenagers??
Last week I got my youngest teenager off to school. The cops brought him home a couple hours later!! The sheriff said they found him at our small town park!
I told the sheriff I sent him off to school! Well I posted about it, the little stinker.
He apologized to me for this and the sheriff was kind enough to take him to school since I can not drive.
I told both my teenagers still at home, mommy bail outs are all run out. I will no longer get them out of there jams they put themselves into - now for sticking with this!!
It must be the weather?? Good luck to you k!
Glad the cop was understanding and took you teen back to school.
He actually laughed when he asked me "did you really tell your kid he had to go to school or clean house with you" or something rather to that effect.
He was a new cop in these parts. They kinda come and go here.
Sure hope yours grows up sooner then later.
Also like the grounding from certain beloved items, such as there electronics.
My child up there is autistic, does not mean he gets away with everything!
His special ed teacher and I gang up. We are on the same page in other words. He needs help he calls me and I call him. I called him at the school asap! Told him what was going on.
He met the cop at the door of the school. Next thing I no I have a phone call from a very sad child (more then likely scared to death he was going to jail) telling me how very sorry he was and it will not happen again.
So far so good. He told me of some of the problems he was trying to handle himself at school and why he was not wanting to go to school when he was at home. I told him it is my job to help with these kinds of problems if kids are threatening with violence and if a teacher or someone hurt his feelings by wording something wrong or whatever.
By not letting him get out of that police car at home, letting the police officer take him to school was the best thing I have done for that child in a long time! He may not see it that way now, but someday he will.
As for my teen it is at the point he needs to get out on his own. as I feel he is doing nothing but making everyone miserable, including himself.
He has my daughter to afraid to speak up against a mean girl in her class or tell the teacher this girl is calling her a cockroach for no reason. Because she thinks the teacher won't listen and she will get beat up. I just found this out over the weekend and was very upset. I have done everything I can for my teen, now it is up to him.
His probation office did tell him when he makes it to another appointment to make them aware of ADHD, bi polar and such.
My teen is insisting the housebe spot less when I move out with the kids. I told him he wil have a week by himself to do nothing but clean.
Don't get me wrong, my house is not trashed by a long sot, but expcting things to be spotless in the iddle of packing and moving is .....well, not going to happen.
When I was going to Jr/sr high school I was the first up and then got everyone else up when I was finished. I had 5 brothers 1 sister(5yrs younger) So if I wanted to use the bathroom I had to be the first one up..otherwise I would be late for school.
If I accidently over slept everyone even my Dad was late...