Noelle
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Typical or Troubled 17 y/o boy? - 2007/06/26 08:25
My son is 17 and just recently started behavioral changes. Six months ago his grades started slipping. He went from all A's and high B's to barely passing with D's. For the most part, he has the same friends that he has had for years. He treats his "girlfriends" like garbage (never wants to take them out or spend time with them other than on the phone; ignores them in school; talks to other girls online all the time) which I don't understand because his father treats me great. We caught him coming home when he snuck out in the middle of the night. He promised he had never done it before and would never do it again. Then I caught him again. It seems like everything he tells us lately is a lie. I have caught him in more lies in the last two months than I ever told my parents. He doesn't take responsiblity for ANYTHING he does. When he was in school and started getting bad grades, he blamed it on the teachers and them not liking him. When he misses curfew (which has only been about two times) he blames it on the person he's with. When he acts stupid at church and gets in trouble by the pastor, he says that the pastor was in a bad mood (I could go on for days with this one). He has absolutely NO respect for anything we do and it's like he doesn't even know the words "Thank You". He is my oldest, so all of this is new to me. PLEASE HELP. I keep thinking that it's going to get better....but it's not. I know that others have it a lot worse than me, but I don't want to go down that path - I want to stop this now. I need some guidance. And advice will be greatly appreciated.
Post edited by: Noelle, at: 2007/06/26 08:33
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