I have a beautiful and talented son (don't we all). He has always been very bright and very athletic and has excelled at anything he has turned his hand to. Despite this, I feel like I have been holding him back from delinquency sine he was about 11. He was suspended from school on a number of occasions and I moved him from one secondary school to another in the hope of offering him a fresh start. He is now 18, very tall, just in college by his fingertips. He has been arrested many times, has several cautions and was referred to the youth offending team last year. He was arrested again on the day he was signed off from them, for fighting. He smokes weed, breaks almost every agreement we make on everything, and now has done something very bad that has compromised his own, and our safety. I have had to tell him to leave. My heart is breaking for him but I just don't know how to help him. I have tried everything over the years, and think all of this would have started much earlier if I hadn't fought so hard to help him. But I am exhausted, ashamed, scared, in despair. I feel the need so badly to communicate with someone else in this sort of situation.
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