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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]lostnfound
(16,162 posts)I try but I just can't get it right. My teenage son doesn't listen, I work full time, I have six doctor referrals for myself that have been neglected for eight months because my job and my son are higher priorities.
Thank god he's growing up in a white bread suburb where the cops aren't likely to shoot him and my job pays well enough that I only have ONE full time job to work because it's already hard enough after my long commute to get home in time to cook dinner AND get through homework.
Yep. I suck as a parent. Too bad I didn't know that 14 years ago. Zero to ten? Piece of cake. But I am NOT cut out for raising a teenage boy. Got some suggestions? Cuz the rest of the world is always offering plenty (from the cheap seats).
I suck as a parent. He has ten or twelve behavior problems that appeared since puberty hit. I work on one or two at a time and feel like I'm being hit with a tsunami.