| Yes, boarding school has worked. But it is a special school that has a zero tolerance for drugs and alchohol. There is also a formidable amount of required parent involvement to try to get to the root of the kids problems. Personally I think their therapy group sessions are a bunch of hooey but that's not the point. It has taken him away from his loser friends here at home and put him in a place where there is structure and forced responsibility and accountability. Every time he comes home though he seems to find yet another loser friend (he must have some kind of loser magnet in his forehead) so I am holding my breath to see what happens when he goes to college.
Quick poll: how many of you parents let your sophomores drink? Juniors? Seniors? Do you differentiate between drinking at home and drinking at a party? I am *not* talking about a celebratory glass of wine or champagne at dinner. I am talking about sitting around drinking a beer. |