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[quote=Anonymous]Echoing the prior posters - I think a 12 yr old boy won't turn down food, so make lunch/dinner out with mom a routine whether 1x a week or 1x in two weeks. If/when you can get him to talk to you about school, friends etc. and he tells you what the boys are saying in the locker room or cafeteria or whatever -- DO NOT use that as your time to lecture about "we as a family don't do that/don't believe that/aren't ok with that." I mean make your notes if you think that he's getting an attitude about treating women poorly or being rude to teachers or whatever, so you can address those things as they pop up. But if you make lunch about lecturing him, rather than just having fun -- he'll view it as a drag and won't go or if you force him to go, scarf down his food and all answers to your questions will be "fine" and "i dunno."[/quote]
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