I Have a Troubled Teen

Eli my son, (13) came home 15 mins late.  He’s supposed to be home at 8.  Because he leaves for the skate park after school and I don’t see him.  So he’s late…AGAIN.  That makes every day this week. 

I had gotten an...

Have you as parents ever had to move so your adult teen couldn`t find you?

If u need advice I a teen will give it and believe it or not I ( most of the time) can give better advice because I was once a troubled teen a term which I don't agree with ...... Anyways if u wish for help I will give it direct me too...

I have had to call the police today on my 16 year old son, i feel terrible but know it was for the best, i done it to scare him as i can not put up with his attitude anymore or letting my 2 younger children witness his lack of respect...

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My earliest memories go back to the spring/summer of my 3rd year (1966). I remember the toys I had and played with. My favorite scooter, stuffed animal, "Budd L" truck, the Nursery school I went to, the cars my mother had, to...

He made me cry. Right there in front of the Emergency Room Doctor, The Two Nurses, The paramedic, and the Xray technician.
Things have been almost calm for a year now. Sure we have our "days."Well, more like our "moments."
Nothing...

I cried when I adopted her because she was the child of my dreams, my fantasies. She made me a mom.
I cried at every milestone because I was so proud. Everything she did was perfect in my eyes.
I cried at every...

When I was little, my parents got divorced. I was too young to care or understand any of it and as I grew up I never minded. Part of the reason why is because my father was never really a big part of my life as a child whenver he was...

My 18 year old is engaging in increasingly troubling behavior.

He is failing. Two speeding tickets in three months after never getting one. He seems to use friends...will hang out with one group for a few weeks, then I never hear...

I replied to another poster and figured I would just submit my story too.  My story is going to sound somewhat similar.
My 14 yr old niece has similar problems. I know she was diagnosed with ADD or ADHD but I think she is probably...

These past 2 years have been a mess. I found out my 16 year old son had been experimenting with cocaine when we got a call from the emergency room saying he had over dosed. I thought he had quit after that but last year he was arrested...

. . . and technically, my daughter isn't a teen yet. I don't know what's going on in her head, but things are going down hill so fast. There's the typical teen (pre-teen?) stuff: not listening, blatant dis-respect, etc. There's also the...

I'M A SINGLE  MOTHER OF A 16 YO BOY WHO FOR THE PAST 2YRS HAS BEEN DRIVING ME CRAZY. HE' BEEN SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE TWICE CUTS HIMSELF. HE WAS ADMITTED INTO A HOSPITAL LAST YEAR HE IS IN THERAPY AS AN...

When she was three I took a job babysitting so that I could buy her her own toy kitchen.It made her very happy. The high school called today; she is AWOL. The police are on it. She will need to be drug tested upon her return, and have...

Augusta, Gone: A True Story.  In this book is the evolution of a kind of madness that takes over a mother's inside mind when her teen ager flips to an alterate universe that defies reason.

I really started to lose my daughter when...

Hello, I am a single mom with a troubled 14 yr old daughter... things are getting bad and I don't know what to do. She has recently started counseling, but she resists talking and tries to avoid appointments... we have yet to actually...

When she lived under my roof, she did nothing but disrupt my home. She took from me and gave little in return. I gave and expected, at the very least, respect. She cried over this boy. Day in and day out. A boy whom she met in class. In...

She thinks she is so smart. She thinks she knows it all at almost 16.
She thinks she has all the answers, lying, stealing, pushing all the limits of propriety and of our patience and even of the law.
She thinks she can push us away by...

My name is Debbie and I am the mother of a very troubleed teen daughter, named Brenna. Life for us has been extremely hard for the last few years, starting with my son's diagnosis with ADHD. If all the problems with him were not enough...