Steps of a Dancewriter - New Year

DS has been home two weeks now. For the most part, it's been pretty good. He learned some great things on the ranch: hard work the most valuable. We scurried around and changed as much of the environment as we could -- some of that helped, some doesn't seem to have made a difference. Honestly? I guess I expected too much. I wanted a completely reformed child. I got a son who learned a good work ethic whilst in the trenches with a bunch of other juvie delinqents who traded secrets with him. Secrets he's now trying to figure out, test and see if the covert information works or not. That's the problem with the system once you're in it: the folks you are with are just as off base as the ones the courts are trying to get you to stay away from!

SIGH.