The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145012 Message #3352994
Posted By: GUEST,CS
19-May-12 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Tough Love' with Teens & Young Adults
Subject: RE: BS: 'Tough Love' with Teens & Young Adults
I'd also reconsider what your values are and how they may be genuinely problematic for your relationship with the teen.
Tough Love -so far as I understand- places the entire onus on the young/badly behaving person, assuming that prevailing middle-class nice attitudes about behaviour and conduct are RIGHT full stop!
I learned from my delinquent adult, that you have to accept that other people don't always hold identicle attitudes about right behaviour to you, and furthermore they have a right to do so too.
What they don't have the right to do however, is to screw you over and fuck-up your life. So basic self preservation is where I would say "No further!" - I think that's a basic euphemism for "tough love" too.