Rebellious Teenager All Advice Appreciated

Sharon - posted on 03/29/2012 ( 2 moms have responded )

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I have a rebellious 16 year old. He is in therapy for alcohol abuse. He sees his counselor every two weeks. Recently (last Sat. ) we found he's been drinking. He tells us it is our fault because we don't trust him. My husband will not help me with him. He has given up, but will get in on any fight and let the child know how rotten he is. How do I punish him? He's currently grounded and he told me that I am punishing his girlfriend by not allowing him to go out and she's upset. He further let me know that he doesn't care about consequences and this punishment is just making him have disrespect for me and he told me he is not liking me as a result of this. What am I to do? He is so incredibly rude and mean. I love this child with my whole heart, but it is so difficult. He sits in his room alone and will not interact with me. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you.

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Meloney - posted on 03/31/2012

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hi Sharron, sorry to hear of your problem with your 16 year old son, my 15 year old was the same and this is how I cured him, first I removed all his things from his room, computer, games clothes etc, then I told him that as he can not behave as a proper teenage boy he will have to learn to behave as a girl and I said, that for the rest of the summer he will be dressed and treated as a girl, so all his boy clothes went into a bag and I gave them to a charity, next I bought him some teenage dresses and skirts and girls underwear, I told him that unless he wants to go around naked, to put on the panties and chose a dress he wants to wear or one of the skirts, naturally he did'nt want to be naked so he chose a pretty pink cotton summer dress that matched his knickers, it had lots of frills on the puffed sleves and hem and a pink bow that tied up on the back, lots of small buttons that did up on the back, ensured that he could not remove the dress without help. As he allready had long hair it was easy to style it to that of a teenage girl and with a few other refinements like girl shoes and some ear rings and bracelets he really did start to look like a pretty girl. I then told him that we would be going on a bus to visit his Aunty so he had better start to behave as a girl and learn to sit properly on the bus unless he want people looking up his dress at his panties and that as he was now a girl he could no longer stand to use the toilet but must sit like a girl on there. i said that I could no longer call him by a boys name so from now on he/she would be called Lavinia. She behaved well on the bus to auntys and even smiled at some boys as they chated her up that I'm now thinking of keeping him as a girl permantly. There are a few things I will have to teach Lavinia to do yet such as how to simerlate her periods every month and to allways carry some Tampex in her purse but I am so pleased on how well behaved he/she has become since I turned him into a girl, yes, it was expencive at first buying a whole new girls wardrobe for him but money well spent I think as I have lost a very rude son but gained a polite and helpful daughter.

Peggy - posted on 03/30/2012

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Your son is not your friend he is your son.it is hard to be a parent. they do grow out of this. you need to tell him that trust is earned. he is almost a man, you need to treat him like one. he says that "this punishment is just making him have disrespect for you" what he is doing is disrespecting you, by not obeying the rules. you dont say if he has a job? does he have chores to do around the house? does he have a cell phone? when my son disrespected me I told him that by law all I need to give him was a bed to sleep on, his clothes and feed him and that what i ended up doing. . I took everything away from him and locked it up so he could not get to it. and told him that everything he had was a gift that had to be earned back. he had to earn the right to use the phone or listen to a radio. I took his I pod, his TV, his computer, his cell phone, I even took off the door to his bedroom. You need to tell him YOUR NOT PUNISHING HIS GIRLFRIEND, HE IS. his actions are trying to put the blame on you. For what he is doing. you did not buy the alcohol, and you did not put it to his mouth. he did. but calling him names will not make it better. think if he was one of your adult friends, would you allow your friend to be rude or mean to you. tell him if he wants to be treated like a child, you will treat he as such and take everything away from him. but if he wants to be treated like a adult, then he needs to act like one. then you can treat him as such.