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Old 10-19-2012, 09:53 PM
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Children will gravitate toward healthy influences, regardless of the negative in their lives. That doesn't mean you can stay in an abusive home and turn out just fine. It just means that kids WANT to be healthy. Teach your son by example. Display healthy behaviors for him. Trying to fix, control or manipulate everything isn't going to help. You won't leave your AH, that much has been established. But make sure that your son has positive male influences in his life, whether it's teachers, coaches, youth ministers at church, whatever. He won't get out of this totally unscathed, but you can definitely minimize the damage. I only wish someone had cared enough about my sister and me as kids to try to set healthy examples for us. It would have saved us a lot of trouble.
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