She wants very much to spend the summer with her mother and she is old enough to make it very difficult to deny that. A year ago this month she ran away from home and I didn't hear from her for 27 days when she ended up at her mother's house.
I really don't want that to happen again, but it is a likely scenario. Yes, I could eventually get her back again, but it could be an ugly last year of her childhood. I have to negotiate the tricky waters of parenting an addicted teen with emotional problems galore.
Today I got a judge to order her back into lock-down drug treatment, so she won't be running away for a while anyway.
I scare you? I am scared for my daughter too.