Quote From: candi2199I am a single mother of two girls ages 5 and 3 and am dating a wonderful man who is a single father of a soon to be 15 year old boy. My problem is that his son is a theif and a liar and although I love them both I cannot stand his son's behavior. My boyfriend and I broke up for about 5 months and have been back together for 3 the majority of our issues have to deal with his son. He stole some money from his dads best friend and stole a toy bike from my home. I am so at a loss of what to do. I have looked up information on military school and alternative schools, but is it my place to bring it up? The boy has not seen his mother in about 10 years and last time she called was on his 13th birthday. My boyfriends method of disapline is ground him for a few days and then give in when his son throws a fit about stuff. Anyyyy type of advice would be so appreciated. We have tried counseling he has been going to therapy once a week for the past year and half and still this behavior is going on. His mother lost custody becasue her boyfriend at the time was accused of molesting him, I DO NOT leave him alone with my girls and I feel bad for feeling the way I do about him. I know it puts his father in an bad situation becasue I can't stand to be around his son more than an hour without wanting to ship him off to boot camp or jail. I am afraid that once he turns 16 then the problems are goin to get worse and my biggest fear is that one night we will get a call saying he is either dead or in Jail.
Maybe a little jail time wouldnt be so bad for the kid. He sounds like a real handfull and a pain to deal with. If he spent a little time in jail with other down-and-out criminals, he'll see where his life is going and it will scare him and encourage him to think about his life and where is and if he doesn't like jail, he'll do his best to avoid him.
My philosophy is, you've gotta give bad people a taste of hell if you want them to avoid it.
