I hate to say it Kristina, but your daughter is 18, a legal adult. She does not have to close her FB account. But you can ban the use of FB in your home for as long as she's living there. If she wants to use FB, then do it at the library, friends house, on her lap top elsewhere. But you legally can make her do anything that she doesn't want to do. Sorry.
Lorie
Patience is worth a bushel of brains...from a chinese fortune cookie
I think the key is to talk about the choices they make in life and why we as parents have issues with some that they make. Sometimes we just have to learn to negotiate something with them. You have to remember that sometimes they do things just because they know it will bug us. My suggestion is to find a youth group/positive environment group that you could get them involved in. Or maybe send them on a mission where they get a little reality check. My stepson got his reality check when he went through rehab and saw some of the realities of jail. A little like a scared straight program.
Lesley #2950 "I see God in the eyes of every child...every life is precious to God, whatever the circumstances." Mother Teresa
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3318 Posts
Posted - Jun 17 2012 : 04:00:56 AM
"Mothers where are you?" We can't be everywhere making choices for our teens and young adults. All we can do is provide them with the skills to make GOOD choices even though we know sometimes they will NOT.
You can't have children and keep them in a glass bubble all of their life-They are going to test boundaries and hopefully LEARN from their very own CHOICES.
my son is now 30 and has a really good job and has gone to college and his future looks wonderful, but when he was a teeager he would not do his school work and just was being lazy cause I knew he could do better. We had talks and talks and talks and it did work and like I said he turned it around. So I think you are on the right track and yours will turn around too. I did not let me son go away to college , i told him he could go only if he stayed at home to go. So that is what he did. I did not want to pay for him to go away and just go wild the first semester either. and it worked out . so just keep going the way you are and it will work out. being a teenager is tough...
help with my 16 yr old
Posted - Jun 13 2012 : 05:00:01 AM
