I have observed that some families desperately want to avoid seeking treatment for their young people struggling with self-harm. As a parent of a young person who wanted and stuck with her treatment, I was baffled that the parents wouldn’t try to help their kids more. :(

I’m nearing 50, and I’ve mentioned elsewhere in my era as a teen we saw more out and out drug and alcohol problems, along with eating disorders. I’ve been clean & sober 20 years. About 5-7 years ago, maybe 10 at most, I started seeing younger women arrive who had a self-harm background. It was a new thing, and…

Yes, with my daughter, we have talked about our “fund” for tattoos, if she would like. Phew, this is an emotional topic for me as a parent!

No, this is inaccurate and a dangerous comment if you don’t know who is in your audience.

This is false, it doesn’t “help”. I think the advice given is very dangerous.

Mother of a young person who was in treatment for self-harm—group therapy can only work for people struggling with self-harm when they are all a sufficient way through initial therapy and treatment. Otherwise that egging behavior, judging each other’s cuts, etc. simply encourages increases in cutting.
I will confess…

Mother of a young person who has struggled with self harm; not a Goth. A nearby middle and high school she went gone were identified as “nodes” where cutting seems to spread mostly among teen girls—nearly all of the young ladies are not Goth.

This might sound odd—since you started from the point of having to teach yourself things like how to cook, organize a pantry, etc. what resources / tactics did you find most helpful?

I’m curious, when people talk about the grocery store as time consuming—I do this every 7-10 days and I find it far easier to grocery shop than to try to get a latte before work in the AM. Then again I’m in the PNW and everyone, their mother and their pets likes coffee.

I hope you don’t mind me asking questions—I’m approaching 50, and I was raised in rural Alaska. We had grocery stores of course, but we also did a tremendous amount of supplementing our diet by hustling during the summer to fish, gather berries, etc. For those who hunted, they would also bring home wild game. …

So not to be the buzz kill...when you use a service like this, aren’t you effectively starving your local farmers of much-needed business? And when you stop buying local, aren’t you also increasing the carbon footprint of the foods you end up purchasing? Not to mention, how fresh is any of the produce? I’m…

So uh, there is an important thing to note here: some people are poorly matched, and while kids may expose that more glaringly, kids are not, in fact, responsible for choices adults make. So when I married a guy I very incorrectly thought might grow out of some of the things that later came to drive me nuts, the…

Rewarding doesn’t mean always fun or easy—it means rewarding. I never planned to have a child, and I can honestly say that having Butter Jr. has been the most rewarding and important experience of my life—like many other things in life, it’s not always been fun or easy.

23 burner accounts?

Should we just be referring to her as Pepsi Jenner?

Thank you I was looking for a reputable “100 times Trump used the excuse of ‘this is hard’, ‘I didn’t know’, etc.” but couldn’t settle on an individual winner.

I know, right? I grew up in a smoking household, before both parents quit! I totally remember smoking bars, smoking sections in restaurants, airplanes, etc. Such a different time.

Ah you are correct, my mistake!

I had the same exact knee jerk response! Along with “Get off my lawn!”

Yes, this is how I remember them too!