because she tested positive for Meth when she gave birth. The baby was taken the following day and placed in a foster home for a couple of months and then given to our Aunt while my cousin has been going through drug rehab, parenting classes, etc. Well, my Aunt has had him for many months now… the baby is actually 11 months old. The courts have allowed my cousing to see the baby twice a week unsupervised now for a couple hours each day… and she recently put in for overnight visits (waiting for court approval). She says that she is “stage 4″ in the program. The court date to determine whether or not her rights will be severed or she’ll regain custody is in a couple months. Does it sound like the courts are heading in the direction of reuniting her with the baby? My Aunt is distraught because she is worried the courts will give my cousin custody. What do you think? Who do you think will get custody? Anyone know what “stage 4 means” and how the system works?? Thanks.
We’re in California. She has also signed away the rights to her older two children when she was found in a drug house and CPS was going to put the kids in foster care. She signed them over to their fathers. She never sees them. The man she is with, the father of the baby is a felon and is still doing drugs.
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My son is 13 and says the reason he wants to move in with his dad is he never gets to see his dad when he visits with him on the weekends because he works and most of the times during the week he works later than normal. When I talk to him about this the only reason he wants to live there from what he has told me is because he can’t see him all the time because he is working. His father moved in with another woman and her son about a year ago. A few months after that my sons dad let his girlfriends son call him dad since his dad wasn’t involved in his life. I think about 3-4 mths later my sons dad was saying that our son wanted to move in with him. Several months have gone by and now the same issue has come up again. My sons dad is an alcoholic and drinks all the time and when he is in the car with my son. I have already told him how I felt about this and he still does it. My son has alot of freedom when he is at his dads and when he comes home is very tired and doesn’t want to wake up for school the next day. And then he tells me they either stayed late playing video games or didn’t go to sleep at all. My son needs structure in his life and I don’t want to keep him from his dad but I also don’t think it is a good idea to live with him. I said he can see him anytime he wants and spend his summers with him. I feel alot has to do to the fact that the girlfriends son lives there all the time and calling him dad and that is a big issue for my son even though he says he doesn’t have a problem with him. Please help I am not sure how to approach this or how to talk to my son about it.
My son is 13 and says the reason he wants to move in with his dad is he never gets to see his dad when he visits with him on the weekends because he works and most of the times during the week he works later than normal. When I talk to him about this the only reason he wants to live there from what he has told me is because he can’t see him all the time because he is working. His father moved in with another woman and her son about a year ago. A few months after that my sons dad let his girlfriends son call him dad since his dad wasn’t involved in his life. I think about 3-4 mths later my sons dad was saying that our son wanted to move in with him. Several months have gone by and now the same issue has come up again. My sons dad is an alcoholic and drinks all the time and when he is in the car with my son. I have already told him how I felt about this and he still does it. My son has alot of freedom when he is at his dads and when he comes home is very tired and doesn’t want to wake up for school the next day. And then he tells me they either stayed late playing video games or didn’t go to sleep at all. My son needs structure in his life and I don’t want to keep him from his dad but I also don’t think it is a good idea to live with him. I said he can see him anytime he wants and spend his summers with him. I feel alot has to do to the fact that the girlfriends son lives there all the time and calling him dad and that is a big issue for my son even though he says he doesn’t have a problem with him. Please help I am not sure how to approach this or how to talk to my son about it.
Years of fighting doctors that have him hooked, mood swings, depression, living in a fog, can’t focus, behavior problems that showed up when he started these chemicals at two years old – but it doesn’t “exist” and I’m a “bad parent”. It’s clearly stopping him from accomplishing what HE wants to do in life, the talents he has are not coming out as they should.
Yes, I’ve been all over the FDA website, was on this years ago regarding Singulair that they FINALLY acknowledged as a major problem in many adolescents, but he just gets shoved from one to another. I try to take him off, use food high in antioxidants & anti-inflamatories, lots of vitamin C, but I can’t keep up or control it nor influence him.
I need to find an experienced way that works. He can’t function without these meds now. Playing the trumpet & clearing lungs works, but he’s so fogged, with “A.D.D.” that comes out as O.D.D., so he resists any homeopathic or natural approach. Not a “controlling parent”, just very concerned as I watch this bright kid lose himself – he’s essentially a drug-addict with the help & blessings of pediatricians over the past 15 years, and I’m just a “dingbat”. But I have watched this correlation between behavior patterns and increased chemical usage for 15 years now, it’s so obvious to me but I cannot convince anyone else.
Tired of this pill factory this country has got us on – any tried & true suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Any direct messages to this young man would also be very helpful – my sole voice & efforts have diminishing returns – no good at this point – I’m a “nag”.
Don’t try to sell me anything. Looking for real people who have managed their symptoms or weaned themselves or a loved one off of this stuff.
Thanks much.
Thxs Aeriol- We’ve been thru specific allergies tests, no change in protocol.Asthma has never been acute enough to land him on a nebulizer, but only once 10 years ago.Clearing his lungs via exercise & trumpet works well, but sitting or laying down causes him to cough during allergy season especially.It strongly appears that his body has been relying on these chemicals for so long, that he does need to be re-trained.Switching doctors in July, we’ll see if we can’t get a different approach as you’ve suggested.For any parent with a young child with mild asthma, BE WARNED about this chemical cycle that many doctors put your kids on.There is more data to back up my “gut” feelings about this, I’m no genius, but somebody’s making a lot of money off of these meds & doctors go along with it.Took me 4+ years to get the FDA to support my concerns re: SIngulair & it cost my son, as he lived in a “cloud”, basically “stoned”. With the new “healthcare reform”,it’s only going to get worse. Thx.
Do they really make you run for hours as posted on the internet, sounds ridiculous and unhealthy for a reocovering addict who is going to be extremely tired for a year or until the drug is out of his system. I’m thinking about having my son go there for is drug addiction but I want to be sure it is the right place. He has excema (skin condition) will they treat it with a prescription cream that works or are they against any type of medicine.
This is a serious meth addiction of 7 years not belly fat
