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Re: Don't give up
By:Jane
Date: Friday, 8 September 2006, 4:24 pm
In Response To: Don't give up (lydia)

. Something
> like karate, gymnastic, soccer or football,
> baseball, anything. They need that physcial
> thing in their life, it really really helps.

This is so true. I know it was for our boy. The rockclimbing was definitely his thing. He still does it now as a grown up and if there aren't any cliffs or rocks he has been known to climb trees and towers.

> Don't be afraid to ground your son either,

Again, a handy technique. Our boy was grounded for a great deal of his teenage hood. Sometimes for months at a time. We got creative with this. If he got failing grades at school he was grounded to our home until those grades came up. When he got in trouble with the school for spray painting swear words on the walls and the vice principals car, then he was grounded to the bedroom except for when he was doing his community service to the school and the chores to pay us back for the costs involved, but the best one was when we had just moved...he got grounded to his bedroom for months for letting air out of the old neighbors cars and breaking antennnas. He was only allowed out for school, meals and when he was filling up the gigantic hole in the back yard with dirt. He had to go find dirt, leaves and debris to fill it with but was not allowed to dig another hole.

Grounding was good. He got his grades up, he learned to respect the rights and property of others and he learned that when you commit crimes...you get locked up. We were fairly tough on him but so far as I know...he has stayed out of jail as a grown up. (Knock on wood.)

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