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What do you do when your teen becomes violent?
By Mother | October 4, 2006
I was so disappointed and upset last night. My 2 teenagers - daughter (15y) and son (14y) started fighting. It was different from the usual arguing - they started having fun - messing around and giggling and then I don’t know what happened … they started yelling and they came to me screaming. I sent them to their respective rooms to cool off as I was making dinner … then I heard banging on the walls - I sent my 8 year old to check up on them - only to find out that my daughter and son were pushing and shoving each other and just hitting each other. I was furious. Luckily, my husband just got home as I was stopping my teens from hurting each other even more. Dad dealt with them this time - he spoke to them -a sermon really - and now … they are grounded for 2 weeks.
I was in tears - I was frustrated - I am not a physical person - my husband is not either - I don’t know how I would have dealt with it if my husband didn’t come home … have you ever been in a similar situation? How did you deal with it? I pray that it never happens again …. but … I want to be ready - if ever …
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December 26th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
I just came across your blog, so I was looking through some of your older posts.
We went through this once with my sons, when they were about 12 and 16. The 16 year old has always tended to be jealous of his younger brother. One night, right in the room next to us, he got mad about something and punched our younger son on the head. I was livid! Like you, we do not have a violent household at all, and we were loud and clear that we never wanted to see anything like that again (and we haven’t). I am not one to get very angry and yell, but I did that time. They realized it was just not going to be acceptable in this house.
The funny part was, my younger son said it didn’t even hurt, but the older one had a sore hand for several days:) I guess it backfired on him.