Don't Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children Author: Visit Amazon's Charles Rubin Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0967979056 | Format: PDF
Don't Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children Description
Review
"Offers parents the means to attain a healthy balance in their lives despite their children's choices," -- Publishers Weekly
"A radical and compassionate self-help guide for parents whose children are addicted to drugs or alcohol." -- Good Housekeeping Magazine
"A book of great merit." -- Donna Hanover, ABC/TV, New York
About the Author
Charles Rubin has been the subject of many TV interviews on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, and the BBC, as well as various family channels and hundreds of local TV and radio shows (152 interviews in 2009 alone). He is a Clio Award-winning writer and producer. His novels include Hard Sell and 4-F Blues: A Novel of WWII Hollywood. The concept for DON'T LET YOUR KIDS KILL YOU developed during the process of surviving his two children's substance addictions. Rubin lectures regularly and hold workshops for parents, teachers, social workers and chemical abuse rehab personnel. Additionally, he is the president of the Inner Light Foundation in Petaluma, Ca, founded by his late wife, author Betty Bethards (The Dream Book-Symbols for Self Understanding which is the best selling book on dream analysis in the world). Rubin's latest book I'll Get Right Back to You and Other Annoyances published in October, 2010.
- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: New Century Publishers; Revised 3rd Edition edition (August 1, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0967979056
- ISBN-13: 978-0967979052
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
My husband and I have been dealing with two teen aged sons (now 21 and 17) who are both drug addicts.
Over the course of five years our sons have become progressively more addicted (primarily to marijuana...all day, every day) and abusive to me and my husband. It started with never doing homework, then skipping school...dropping out...a few visits to the emergency room...minor skuffles with the law and, for the older son, a 3 month jail sentence.
We are typical hard working, present and anxious parents and it took us a few years (and this book) to accept that our sons had lost their concern for our feelings and well being. The abuse began with them stealing from us..then, while we were at work, they would gather with their drug addicted friends all day in our home and generally destroy our house and our peace of mind...they lied without compunction and successfully manipulated us into doing what they wanted.
We responded with counselling, lectures, assistance, enrolling them in differenct schools, finding them jobs, chauffering them all over town and generally waiting for them to change...come to their senses.
They did not change and we were wrong. We had become prisoners in our own home and we didn't know how to escape.
This book helped us regain our lives. Upon reading this book we discovered that other parents had gone through the EXACT same misery we were suffering. We learned from this book that we had to get rid of our expectations...and to deal with the reality. Our boys were addicts. No amount of encouragement, love, lecturing or pleading was going to change that...and we had to stop the abuse.
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