Thank you all for this thread!!!
My daughter is only 7, I didn't know that Alanon had a youth group. I worry because she has more addicts and alcoholics in her family than I care to admit and a severely autistic brother. Other than private counseling I don't know what to do
She wants to help a lot with her brother, and although I appreciate it, I worry about the issue of parentification. I most definitely am beginning to see the beginning stages of codependency in her and I am clueless what to do.
She does go to a support group once a week for typical siblings of special needs children. They focus on the three C's, but it is worded a little bit differently. The group provides a safe place to vent about her frustrations, but mainly it is to teach the young children that it is not their fault, and what their boundaries are in caregiving.
Does alateen do the 12 steps like alanon? how closely do the youth meetings resemble the adult ones?