Don't let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children Author: Charles Rubin | Language: English | ISBN:
B005LQQWIM | Format: EPUB
Don't let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children Description
Defies the myth that parents must sacrific themselves. Instead, shows them how to reclaim their power, balance, happiness...and lives. When kids turn to substance abuse, parents also become vicims as they watch their children transform into irrational and antisocial individuals. This harrowing scenario finds parents buckling beneath the stress--often with catastrophoric consequences: Divorce, career upsets, breakdowns and worse. "Don't Let Your Kids Kill You" is a landmark work that dares focus on the plight of the confused, distressed parent and not the erring child. It sets aside any preconceived ideas that parents are to blame for what is essentially a full-blown global crisis. Drawing on interviews with parents who've survived the heartbreak of kids on drugs, combined with his own experience, Charles Rubin provides practical advice on how parents can help themselves and their families by first attending to their own needs. Liberation begins when you open this book.
- File Size: 252 KB
- Print Length: 204 pages
- Publisher: New Century Publishers; Revised 3rd Edition edition (September 11, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005LQQWIM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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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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