Parents in denial

cptofthehouse
Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:44:17 +0000

Unfortunately, a typical sort of thing. Parents, and kids, and teachers, and other adults don’t seem to get that intelligence is ever so overrated, especially in underachieving kids. The work ethics and attitudes that you get are much,much more important.

I’ve never been successful in giving parents in denial a reality check. The ones who really want a solution and are facing reality are the ones that you can help. Those who really don’t want help tend to get resentful when the reality is presented.

If you can do the research, get some names of counselors, psychiatrists, etc who are good at dealing with problems with kids of that age, and give the resources to the parents. It is up to them if they want to pursue that avenue. But at least, if things get tougher, they have somewhere they can turn. Also you might want to find out who the good criminal attornies are in that area so that if you should ever get a call at 3AM regarding some problem with your nephew, you’ll have a referral at your finger tips. Also check out the drug and alcohol programs for teens. Better you have all of that info instead of scrambling to figure it out when you are in crisis mode. Having lived through some of this, I can tell, the info can be golden.