Dear Parents,
I want to tell you a story about one of my clients who successfully redirected revenge and how she did it.
I had introduced myself at an event and Katy approached me afterward. Katy, a single Mom, explained that at the age of 13 her sweet son Jake had turned on her. He became very angry. Jake started hanging around with kids that were getting into trouble. He started drinking and smoking cigarettes and pot. He would smoke cigarettes in the house.
She tried everything, yelling at him, punishing him, but he just disrespected her and did whatever he pleased. In desperation, she sent him out of state to be with her brother, thinking that a strong male influence would have an effect. She intended to have him stay with her brother for two weeks, but a year had already passed at the time of our first meeting.
Her brother did the best he could do with Jake, and was able to establish some routine. But Jake was still smoking outside of the house, and was disrupting the household, so it was time for Jake to go back to live with Katy. Jake was now 15. Physically he was bigger and potentially a threat to Katy. She was scared, He was coming home in two weeks, and she really didn’t know what to do, how to handle him. And honestly, she was still feeling hurt and angry over what she had already been through.
Tomorrow I will tell you what happened when he came home.
To your Family,
Jane Cabrera
The Parent Success Coach
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