How did your relationship with your son slip to the point he wanted to use the Laws to get under your skin ?
My Nephew is a troublesome kid, punched holes in all the walls of my sisters lovely house.
One day I turned up at their house, got him out of bed. And said mate, today YOU are going to fix every wall in the house and have it patched and Painted before YOU go to sleep.
It took me until 11am to Convince him that I would still be eyeballing him at 3am to get started on it and he will not go to sleep until its done.
So he agreed to come to bunnings with me and we bought all the plaster and patching , undrcoat and paint, sand paper.
I made him cut out the holes square, cut a piece of wood, Screw in the wood, Cut the new bits of plaster, screw them on.
Then first coat of patch with the tape. then 2nd coat of patch. And stand holding the hair dryer to dry so he could sand.
Sand , vaccum, Patch, Dry, sand , vaccum. Undercoat, dry, sand, vaccum, then paint, dry , paint.
By that time it was 11.30pm = Done.
The paint he chose was the dulux that came with a 4L can of jellybeans.
I told him you dont get the Jelly beans until its all finished and he had signed a Contract not to do it again.
I wrote a Contract the next morning that if he damaged the walls again that he had to agree to a run up and kick with steel cap work boots to where the sun dosnt shine.
He signed, I signed, My sis and Bro inlaw signed, and he got the jelly bean Can.
At the moment when he caved in 11am previous day and agreed that he would fix the walls with my guidence he agreed to come to bunnings, First time hed been out of the house in 4 months.
I said Come on Skidmark lets go to Bunnings, My sis was in Awe and tears were rolling down her cheeks.
None of them could believe I got a Gamer Kid off the PC and out of the House and got him to Fixed all the Walls Hed damaged Inside the same Day all done.
Even all My Uni Grad inlaws messaged me saying I missed my calling, they just couldnt believe I turned that kid around alot in just one day of my effort.
All Im saying JT is that there is always a Solution.
PS. My Nephew is still a big pain in the Rse, but My effort day was a big turning point in his Transformation into a Human being.
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