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<blockquote data-quote="Kolleen" data-source="post: 246165"><p><strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Just lost my whole, entire post!!!!!!!! Grrrrrr!</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">will recap:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Went back to Alanon Parent meeting last night. Haven't gone in my 3 mo hiatus. Now that sonnyboy is in an apt., and unemployed these past 2 wks, life is returning to the rollercoaster. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Some thoughts from the meeting:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><u>Detaching</u>: We have carried our own issues around in our personal backpack plus our difficult child's baloney in another pack. I'm tired of lugging such a heavy load! I am only going to carry my personal bag of issues, no one elses!!! He's much bigger and stronger than me, let him shoulder it.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><u>We deserve to have a life</u>. During the 3 mo things were quiet I was another person!!! WHO KNEW!!! I want that back! I resent not having my own life. Tired of being terrified of what is going to happen next.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><u>Enabling</u> is the same as disabling. Sometimes looking at something in a new way turns on a light bulb. Would we ever intentionally disable someone nooooo! </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Where we <u>focus</u> our attention is where our energy goes. If we are focused on difficult children all the time..... we don't have any energy for anything else. No wonder I haven't had any energy in the past 2 wks. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">OK here's a giggle to clear away a couple cobwebs for today. Take care.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Stay strong!!!</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">From the diary of a Pre-School Teacher</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> :</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black">My five-year old students are learning to read.</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black">I took a deep breath, then asked..."What did you call it?"</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black">"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black">And so it does...</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: sandybrown"><strong>picture of elephant goes here with the caption</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong>" A f r i c a n Elephant "</strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: sandybrown"><strong>beneath it</strong></span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black">Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?</span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kolleen, post: 246165"] [B][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Just lost my whole, entire post!!!!!!!! Grrrrrr![/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]will recap:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Went back to Alanon Parent meeting last night. Haven't gone in my 3 mo hiatus. Now that sonnyboy is in an apt., and unemployed these past 2 wks, life is returning to the rollercoaster. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Some thoughts from the meeting:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][U]Detaching[/U]: We have carried our own issues around in our personal backpack plus our difficult child's baloney in another pack. I'm tired of lugging such a heavy load! I am only going to carry my personal bag of issues, no one elses!!! He's much bigger and stronger than me, let him shoulder it.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][U]We deserve to have a life[/U]. During the 3 mo things were quiet I was another person!!! WHO KNEW!!! I want that back! I resent not having my own life. Tired of being terrified of what is going to happen next.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][U]Enabling[/U] is the same as disabling. Sometimes looking at something in a new way turns on a light bulb. Would we ever intentionally disable someone nooooo! [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Where we [U]focus[/U] our attention is where our energy goes. If we are focused on difficult children all the time..... we don't have any energy for anything else. No wonder I haven't had any energy in the past 2 wks. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]OK here's a giggle to clear away a couple cobwebs for today. Take care.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Stay strong!!![/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]From the diary of a Pre-School Teacher[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] :[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]My five-year old students are learning to read.[/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [CENTER][B][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]"Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]I took a deep breath, then asked..."What did you call it?"[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]And so it does...[/COLOR][/FONT][/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][COLOR=sandybrown][B]picture of elephant goes here with the caption[/B][/COLOR] [B]" A f r i c a n Elephant "[/B][/CENTER] [CENTER][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][COLOR=sandybrown][B]beneath it[/B][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER] [B][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]Hooked on phonics! Ain't it wonderful?[/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [/QUOTE]
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