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[quote=Anonymous]Our young teen has some good neighborhood friends and a few others from sports, but has basically stopped hanging out with most of them this school year because he wants to hang out with a “bad” kid he knows from school. Bad/inappropriate language, disrespectful to adults, bad attitude about school/activities, older siblings who vape, etc. After they hang out, our kid speaks differently and has a bad attitude. Doesn’t care about school or activities anymore. He sounds just like the “bad” kid. It will go away if they don’t hang out but as soon as they see each other my kid transforms into a copy of this kid.

They got into big trouble at school (my kid was just an observer but still was involved) last month so we said they can’t hang out anymore. We can control that out of school but they still sit together at lunch and hang out in the halls. Today he came home talking just like this kid again.

This kid has dissuaded my kid from doing a school activity he used to love. He also was going to try a new school sport this season but now he won’t because this kid isn’t doing it.

Our kid is drawn to him like a moth to flame. How can we pull him away? What can we do aside from switching schools? [/quote]

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