Pete and repeat – say again?
So for what seems like the hundredth time, I had the talk with David, our 10 year old about how his behaviour will follow him for the rest of his life. Do I think I got through to him this time? Sadly, no, I don’t. This is the child who just got out of a residential facility, where he was placed in part because of his behaviour. I explained that there are worse places for him to be, and gave him specific examples. I talked about how when I was a kid, I was in trouble with the law and was taken from my home in handcuffs. Yes, even at the age that he is, they might not use handcuffs, but they could decide that this isn’t the proper environment for him. So the question is, how do we protect him from himself? When it is just him, and myself,