Simply Joel wrote:bullD wrote:Simply Joel wrote:
maturity? fuck
Yes.
Resistance is futile...
FUCK!
bullD and all... my 17 year old step-son is a brilliant example of step-parenting gone terribly fucking wrong... he is mimiscking the poor behavior or my spouse's second husband (which is to say he is being verbally abusive, physically abusive to his younger brother and very unwilling to work and/or lazy despite the need to pay his $285 speeding ticket.)
if you think "yahoos" are bad, this kid is their poster child... spoiled and demanding.
thanks for allowing me this rant... because getting arrested for knocking the little cocksucker out doesn't seem like much fun. and trust me, it takes all my fucking strength not to mop up the floor with his unconscious body.
fuck.... only 11 more months and he turns 18... yet i imagine with his current grades, he'll be doing the 5 years of high school plan or the local GED "Lincoln's Challenge" factory.
http://www.lincolnschallengeacademy.org ... llenge.htm
thoughts?
Sounds like he needs a taste of reality and hopefully his mother will be strong enough to endure seeing him struggle.
For me, way back, I was going through my punk-rock stage and left home at the age of sixteen. Although I was not spoiled, I did have the issue of my parents being IMO far too strict (funny, later in life I thanked them for this). Anyway, leaving the umbrella of home was the best thing for me. I struggled lots yet learned shit loads, saw and participated in many real and shocking things, and did some healthy growing in regards to maturity. It was very scary yet very good...
With that said, you have probably exhausted reasoning with him. Perhaps planting the thought now into his head that he needs to go when he is officialy an adult, graduated from school or not, would be good to get the ball rolling. He's going to feel empowerd and good about himself, as many of us did leaving home, but will soon be smacked in the head with reality. Let him struggle. Don't intervene no matter how bad it seems because some lessons are best learned when there is nobody backing us up. This isn't giving up on him. This is perhaps the best thing you may ever do for him.
FUCK!!!!! It's only 5:30 am
!!! And I have been up for an hour now. Daylight savings,,, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
