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Hello My name is Alisha and I am having a problem with my 10 year-old son. He is acting out at school, lying, and hiding things from me and his teacher, and a lot more... I don't know what to do anymore. I need help...
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My son is into marijuana and he does not do well at school. He has an attitude problem at home and I do not know how to make him understand that he is putting his future at risk. He is a very bright boy who seems determined to throw his future away. I am threatening to send him to military school. He doesn’t think I will do it but I might. Do military academies work well for kids who aren’t doing well in regular school and are doing drugs and getting into trouble. It is very hard to get a straight answer from anyone about if they actually work or not? He would hate it there and I would miss him but I am worried that unless I can get him back on the right path now while he is only 13 then I will miss my chance forever.
Read answer →A Psychiatric Diagnosis is Required for Proper Treatment
My 16 year son seems really different to me lately. I thought it was just normal teen stuff but I caught him a couple of times over the last couple of months and it seems like he is arguing with someone but there is no one else there. He also seems sort of paranoid or something all of the time, like he asked me if he could put a lock on his door and he has talked about someone following him on his walk to school. He was a really good basketball player but he quit the team this year saying he didn’t want to do it anymore and when I saw the coach a couple of weeks ago in the grocery store it seemed like the coach was trying to tell me something about my son’s behavior but didn’t quite know how to say it so didn’t say much in the end. I tried talking to him about this but he says everything is fine. He is spending a lot of time by himself now and a lot less with friends - actually he doesn’t seem to ever hang out with friends anymore. At first I thought it was drugs but I talked to him about this and I really don’t think he is on anything. I am getting kind of scared but my husband says he is just going through a normal phase. Should I be worried about what I am seeing? I feel like he needs to see a doctor or something but we have no insurance right now so I am not sure if I should wait and see or divert some household money for this now.
Read answer →Sex Education is Important for a 12 Year Old Boy
My 12 year old son exposed himself to his cousin at a family bbq when they were off in the woods together. She told her mom and my sister told me. There have been a couple of other similar incidents over the years. My son says he was just fooling around and that it is no big deal. I am worried that he is getting too old to be doing stupid stuff like this and that maybe this is a symptom of something else. How worried should I be about what he is doing? Should he talk to someone about this stuff and about sex?
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