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House in emotional disarray

Our house is taking an emotional hit today. His lies. When he was in the hospital last, he reportedly said that we were beating him. Child Protective Services comes tomorrow to do followup. The case worker stated “David reported that he was made to eat soap and his mom was mean to him.” The issue at hand is simple.  Mom is a teacher.  David has zero clue what is at stake here with his lies and the resulting fall out. All that we can do is let the social worker into our home, speak candidly and carry on. The result of the investigation will show that we are doing everything we can to help him. His lies have already shown him to be what he is, and nothing that happens in the next 24 hours will change that. But the emotional toll is still there.  This hit against our ability

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I’ll beat you with this shovel

Heck of a title for this post. Last evening, my son stormed out of the house in anger. I waited about 20 minutes before going after him.  I thought it would give him time to cool down. Not to be. He started throwing things out of the cars, so I worked my way through them to lock the doors and make sure things were where they were supposed to be. As I got to the last one, he began threatening me. He had a basketball that he kept throwing down the street, so I took it and put it in the garage.  He went and got it.  So, I am ashamed to admit, I deflated the ball. I didn’t acknowledge him in any way during this period. I was working on moving a vintage sewing machine into our house, when he grabbed a shovel and threatened to beat me with

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