Messages By: othrsideofdark

Quote From: ellerocks

my daughter is 15 and has been doing the cutting, waiting to get her into counselling, we know that it started from bullying, and got that under control, but sometimes she still does it, usually to take away the pain from other things that bother her. this year she started high school, and decided skipping school is the cool thing to do. She has only been at the new school for just over a week now, and I have gotten 4 calls saying she missed classes. she has run away twice now, walked around all night long, at least that is what she tells us. and we found her at the park the next day hiding in the bushes, which we has searched the night before.  Now she decided that she isn't coming home after school, I am still waiting for her to come home now and it is 8pm,  she won't tell me who her friends are so i dont even know where to look for her. She has admitted that she sometimes takes off to the big mall her and hangs with her friends. I have to small children and can't go traipsing through that damn mall it is too big to look for her. I can;'t deal with this, its too much on my plate. I feel like just giving up and running away myself from all this crap. her dad came over and we talked to her for 2 hours last night to find out what was wrong, she never came clean, we asked lots of questions we got nowhere, and today, she skipped class again and didn't bother to come home or phone to let me know she is ok. what do I do? How do I help this child?