Is there something that will prove to a mouthy, stubborn teenage kid that thinks they dont have to listen to anyone, even authority. How can I get this one some help.( a policeman said they are allowed to leave home and a policewoman a day before said the oppisite.|||The police aren't there to mediate your custody battle. If he needs some tough love, that's your job.|||Two words, there, bud:
BOOT CAMP!|||If the kid doesn't want to live with you there must be a significant reason. Did you try and keep him from the other parent and put a bunch of restrictions on him and say bad things about the other parent and meanwhile bring in some stepparent that is suppose to try and take the other parents place? This is a very good reason to run away. I hope this is not your reason why he ran away. Kids should be given the right to decide who they want to live with. With just some understanding and being on good terms with the other parent, you could still have the kid with you. If you can't manage to get along with the other parent for the kids sake, then look forward to the next 3 years (until he is 18) of run away problems, along with many other problems he may face due to something you could solve right now.|||Try LISTENING to the mouthy, stubborn teenage kid. If a teenage kid is mouthy and stubborn, there's a reason for it, and your use of the words "non-custodial parent" brings to my attention that he's not only a child of divorce, but a child of a less-than-amicable split if a "non-custodial parent" exists in the first place.
I don't know the ins and outs of your divorce or split or whatever it was and I don't WANT to. I just want to make the point that the kid is having a hard time of it and that's thanks to YOUR doing. You've created the monster, whether it was intentional or not and whether you realized you were doing it or not. It takes two to make a kid. You made your bed. Now you have to lie in it. Don't blame the kid entirely.
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