The school didn't make any suggestions. Their intention was to have a 'united front'. We didn't.

Ex takes him to school or he rides the bus.


He's not a truant...he skipped a class...not school.

I did look forward to the meeting today. I was hopeful to it would go down as planned.

He did have consequences at our house. He has none over there. I can't enforce them from here.

His cell phone is very important to him. As is hangin' out with friends, other freedoms, and extracurricular activities. He gets all of those, with no consequences for bad behaviour, where he is now. I can do nothing when he's not with me.

I'm his dad first and foremost. He got to where he didn't like it if I told him 'no', or didn't let him always have his way. He threatened to "just go to moms"...and he did.


"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." - William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830's.