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It's pretty discouraging. Y'all met him (pinged the Entmoot list), he's a good kid. But we seem to have hit the same wall we did last year about this time.

He's been in a foul mood since Sunday and last night with his grandmother was the last straw for us. So I told y'all we had a "talk."

Apparently he went upstairs and trashed his room. It is often difficult to tell, but the plastic was pulled down from the ceiling (I have someone coming Wednesday), his tv was turned over (gently of course), a drawer was pulled out...just a bunch of stuff.

I may have gotten through to him this morning though. Told him I was gonna take pictures and send 'em to the youth pastor and the youth leaders cause we know he don't act like that when he's with them.

He tried to redeem himself this afternoon 'cause there's something he wants to do Sunday. Right now I want to say no, but I want to make sure I'm not just sayin' that for spite. We'll see how he does tomorrow.

Keep him in your prayers. I told him I know how miserable he is (of course he said there's no way I could know). And I told him how much this whole thing with Nana had upset things for all of us, especially his Mom. Not sure it registered.

Corin. My kids did this too. I learned with Jill that those times if I couldn't get through to her sometimes PQ's mom could. We had an agreement between the 4 of us. If one of the kids had something they needed to talk about or say, it would be kept between that kid and the other adult. No running back and forth about things between me and Peg. Seemed to alleviate some of those times.

It worked well enough that when Myranda started getting close to that age we entered into that agreement with another of my friends with whom Myranda had a good friendship. Marty would take Myranda for weekends from time to time or if Myranda just needed to get away she was allowed to call Marty to pick her up from school and go have an afternoon out or whatever. (of course I was notified and permission given and all that) But, even now, Myranda will tell you there were just things she needed to talk to Marty about. And she was assured it was confidential. Myranda was a really *good* kid compared to some. But, she still needed that.

Not tryin' to butt in. Just givin' ya an idea that worked for me. Not worked ALL the way ALL the time - but it helped.