It can be a hard time as a parent to deal with a kid that is acting out “absolutely for sure”. I agree with you that he is honestly doing the best he can with input from professionals. And he is doing the best in the “actual” situations where this behaviour is occurring without making it worse.
I’ll put my hand up and say my daughter hit the pits of lowest behaviour 2 yrs ago - (and it was horrible, truly fucking horrible for me specifically as the acting parent, for us both as parents in our situation - [middle class, if not considered rather bloody privileged, no abuse issues, perfect home situation]). I never thought it would happen to us. But it did.
The lies she told about us both (after being influenced by shitty older peers to fit in with their shitty lives) to others online and in person, including police officers, it was just heartbreaking - and I must admit I truly got to a point that I was honestly thinking of how to step away from her for her own sake if she hated me so much, and how to keep my other younger child & myself safe - and then I did ... (there is a lot more of this situation I’m not sharing obviously)
thankfully, the professional people involved in our situation helped the situation and at almost 16 now, she is a massively delightful person and human being that I enjoy being around on a minute by minute basis every day.
My concern with both E‘s honestly, is that the call is coming from inside the house at this point… She doesn’t have both parents looking out for her best self
![Crying face :cry: 😢](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f622.png)
, just one.
It was nightmare level here, even with both parents being on the same page for our daughter‘s well-being …