Are you approaching his friends or are they coming to you?
IF my sons friends come to me with concerns about my son, I am not turing them away. I am not feeding them information to gain them as my friends either.
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4) I do not want S17 to feel like he is being treated like a second hand son.
Hrnmm...
Your son isn't having an MLC.
My oldest is 15. My youngest is 10. When my oldest complained that it felt like the youngest could do nothing wrong, I asked him;
"Is he?"
"No."
"But me and mom should...treat him, like we treat you with your attitude and your talking back, not doing your chores? You get what you give buddy. Doesn't mean I don't love you, but if you give me attitude I'll break it."
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK
