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Old Dec 10, 2006, 05:34 PM
wanttoheal wanttoheal is offline
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I'm not in NY, but I did not find the police to be very helpful here. At your son's age, there are a lot of wilderness/therapy type camps that he might benefit from. The boys I know around here who went to military camp seemed to just learn how to do things better...

My only advice is to really research everything, talk to everyone and anyone. Knowledge is what will help you here. He needs therapy in my opinion, not a lock up place where older children with more experience in doing things will teach him how to do it better or some place where he feels completely alone with no support.

Just make sure wherever he goes, he will get therapy that includes compassion and understanding. Sounds like he has some stuff going on in his head. At age 12, I do not believe he wants to just be "bad" for the sake of being bad.

Good luck to you with whatever you decide.
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