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umm buddy....
i am married (12 yrs) to a great woman who has a 15 yr old boy, and a 16 yr old girl
i have had to discipline before, and the boy actually told me "i cant touch him, its the law."
my reply was law? the law says i need to feed/clothe/shelter/educate.
the law says **** all about xbox/good wardrobe/allowance/giving into youth whims.
just last month, i gave him an open handed smack upside the side of his head for skipping out of class to smoke pot. and told him that those are choices he can make when he is 18. until then, i make the choices for him, and if that isnt good enuf, he can find his own place to live, period. his father and i are on great terms, and supports me, or else he gets the problem full time and has already refused the boy on a request to live on the greener grass. i didnt ask him to be an honors student, but i DO insist he goto school.
id take him doing pot over coke anyday, but kids dont know the proper time and place for such things. i demand respect from him, and the friends he chooses to bring into my kingdom. kids assume that privileges are the same things as rights. sounds like you 2 need a break until he can deal with you on your level. it will hurt for years, but he will come around.
show me someone thats never said as an adult, "yah, my parents were never-ever right about anything." one day, he too will impregnate some chick, that will spawn his demon seed---and he just might look back on life.
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