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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who posted the following:

17-year-old DS who exploded with righteous indignation whenever corrected about anything, no matter how pleasantly (wipe up footprints, close up the bag of shredded cheese, don't put clean clothes on the floor). Also that he doesn't go out with friends ever but seems happy. I also posted above that he was really, really difficult and oppositional at age 10, that we used the Kazdin method with him pretty successfully, and that every year since then had been an improvement so that overall he was pretty pleasant most of the time. And I also posted that DH was sometimes worse than DS really and often the cause of problems between them.

Happy to report that at 18, DS is getting along well with both DH and me, still doing well in school, has been accepted to several colleges. He has a job and is a big help around the house. I still worry that he doesn't get out enough and I really worry that he will be lonely when he goes away to college. But mostly he is great and I feel positive about his future.

Now I've got another kid ready to enter the teen years....:-o

Hope things are looking up for others as well. :-)[/quote]

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