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@nmb She described no such experience like the one affecting her daughter. In fact, if she did have such an experience, she surely would have mentioned it. You're reaching if your effort to be sexist.

@notatrollreally I'm asking what your basis is for your opinion that 3 years is too long. Ask an expert. Ask your doctor.

@notatrollreally What's the basis for your opinion that it overrules your pediatrician? Talk to your pediatrician again. Or ask another pediatrician.

@abovethewaves Sometimes the parenting problem is the parent.

@abovethewaves There's the cause right there. You don't take his viewpoint seriously. If he couldn't see you cut off a car because he was looking at his phone, then you couldn't drive because you were looking at your son. See the logic you are employing? Your child is now a teenager with his...

@sammy707 I'm surprised a $1,310 laptop doesn't meet specs, but a $500 laptop does. A laptop that costs more than twice as much should have better everything in it. If they want to throw money at you, pshh, take it. The only concern is whether they want the laptop back after she breaks up with...

@simplewoodencross Methinks the cannabis use is self-medicating his other problems, making his life bearable. Work on his other problems. Don't worry about his school options or sports. Those are ultimately not very important. Work on his real problems so that 1) he lives, and 2) wants to go to...

@peter20178 Forcing him to do things he doesn't want to do teaches him nothing except to resent you. Worse, if he connects your behavior to something, he may carry that resentment into adulthood, now targeted at the thing you forced him to do as a teen. If you explained to him you are forcing...

@peter20178 I don't agree with forcing him to take guitar lessons under those conditions. Needless suffering is being created. If he wants to resume when he gets a new instructor, then great, If he never wants to play guitar again, then okay. You're not allowing him his own agency. A...

@thedevilaintthatbad The situation seems cut and dry. Your son is an adult and can choose to stay with Dad or become homeless or whatever. Set conditions for his returning under your roof, should he choose that path. He obtains his GED. He obtains job training or begins job hunting and going...