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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a similar issue with my 15 yr old and nothing has worked either. We worked with a family therapist and even she is stumped. Every day same battle.

I have set a time when we will leave for a ride to the bus stop. My other child is not an issue be ready on time so if my 15 yr old isn't ready I have left her. [b]This has led to hysterics.[/b] Once I drove her all the way to school. The second time she convinced my DH to drive her behind my back while I was driving my other kid. But after that I have held firm. She then started saying well I don't care if I am late or go at all.

So we told her she had to find her own ride. She started getting her boyfriend to pay for her Ubers. I threatened to go to his parents over it to instruct him to stop but she told him he had to stop. She sometimes has gotten upperclassmen to pick her up.

She isn't motivated at all to cooperate. She doesn't care if her phone gets taken, if we take money out of her allowance, if she gets grounded from activities. Nothing works. The family therapist is the idiot who suggested threatening her to have to pay for her own Ubers to school which I didn't want to use as strategy, I warned her it would backfire, my DH used it anyway and it backfired exactly how I predicted.

I have no practical suggestion, just know I can commiserate. It sucks.[/quote]

I hope you are exaggerating.  [/quote]. Crying, screaming, stomping her feet = hysterics. I wish I was exaggerating. Do you have something helpful or just want to make people feel worse?[/quote]

You have to want the help.    You obviously don't.   Enjoy living with hysterics. [/quote]

Where did I write I didn't want help? Your dots don't connect, you make zero sense. I called you out and you doubled down on being a jerk. All you said was "I hope you are exaggerating" and I'm not exaggerating. You are rude and not helpful whatsoever. At least own it.[/quote]

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