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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would have installed a home alarm with window/door alarms and kept the code to myself. Also would have taken the phone away. My kid can hate me - that’s fine.[/quote]

You sound like someone who hasn’t parented a mentally ill child. One of the scariest times I’ve had was when my son left his phone and then disappeared for hours. We rely on the phone to track him. Tactics that typically work may not be effective with kids who suffer from mental illness. [/quote]

You are right, I haven’t. But the alarm would have gone in the DAY I first found that kid hidden in my house. And if a kid can’t be trusted out of the house alone, then the kid needs to be babysat. Like a 5 yo.[/quote]

Not to blow your bubble but I had the alarm codes to my house from the time I was 16 and took the bus home. Unless you have your kid in expensive after-school activities or lessons or you yourself are at home 24/7, they need the code in order to open their own front door. [/quote]

Mom of girl worked from home and I think mom of shooter may have too. Also, you were a kid who was high functioning. If your child has issues, you treat them like a younger child in terms of freedoms, etc.[/quote]

And you know this from your vast experience with kids with issues? 
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DP. People who don’t live in the world of special needs have no idea how few resources are available and how difficult it is to control an adult size/strength teenager who doesn’t want to be controlled. Remember, you can pick up a five year old. [/quote]

I do have experience with a SN tween. Is it really so hard to secure your gun and take away car keys. That would be a start? (Assuming he got gun from parents home and car was parked at their home).[/quote]

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