Breaking our hearts to practice tough love with David. He called home for the first time since he was placed in detention. Full of tears, and a story about how he banished the bad version of himself. Breaking Hearts During the first hearing, he didn’t want to talk to us. During the second, he said…
Category: accountability
Fourth and Goal – the big game of life
Fourth and Goal – I feel like we are in the Super Bowl. I don’t follow football as a rule, so I had to look up the reference for “Fourth and Goal”. To be clear, I don’t consider this a game. David’s life, our family’s life is not a game. We didn’t sign up for…
Less than 24 hours and a wake up
Less than 24 hours and a wake up from now, barring some intervention, David will be home. He will come home from a supported environment where he has constant supervision, consistent support, and success in school, to home. Home where we can’t recreate the level of support he has now. Where we will live on…