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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are young adults now.  My 17 year old threatened to run away.  I offered to help her pack. [/quote]

Yup! Call their bluff OP. [/quote]

This is what I did for my 7 year old. She packed up and headed out the door. I followed her and told her it was my job that she gets to where she wants to go safely or the police would charge me with child endangerment. But once she got to where she was heading (my sisters house 2 blocks away) she’d be free to go. We got to my sisters house, I let her in (whispered to my niece what was going on and left. She came back an hour later saying she was going to have to do the laundry and clean the kitchen if she stayed at my sisters. 
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LOL. I love it.  I tell my kids no one will love and care about them as much as their mom, and that grass is always greener on the other side.  So, as much as they may hate my rules, if they think living with someone or on the streets is going to be better, go ahead.  But right now though, they know they have it pretty good.  But who knows how they will feel a few years from now. [/quote]

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