Hello All--
I am SOOO aggravated right now...so I am sorry if this turns into a rambling rant.
We had a psychiatrist appointment this evening--mostly to get difficult child's Celexa script refilled....
And psychiatrist began asking difficult child how she is doing in school. Well, she had a little sob story that despite trying really, really hard...she has all C's and D's. psychiatrist wanted to know if we were getting extra acedemic help for her--and that's when I informed psychiatrist that difficult child is, in fact, NOT trying really, really, hard...her teachers are reporting that she is just not doing the homework. I also told psychiatrist that we are sick of the daily homework battles and so husband and I ask about the homework--if difficult child says everything's great--we leave it at that. The end.
Well, psychiatrist completely disagrees about detaching on this issue and begins to design a reward/punishment system that she feels would be really effective at encouraging difficult child to get her homework done.
I say been there done that, and frankly, I don't want to play the games anymore where I have to guess whether or not difficult child is just lying about having no homework, or finishing homework in class, or did it during study hall etc. etc. etc.
[Here comes the part you have to sit down for:]
psychiatrist turns to difficult child and asks "Will you stop lying to your parents about homework?"
difficult child responds "Yeah"
And psychiatrist says "See? She won't lie to you about the homework any more."
What a moron I am to think that all these years we've been playing these games, dealing with all of difficult child's lying, sneaking around, making up stories, and other bull****--and I could have solved the whole problem by just asking her nicely not to lie any more?!?
Truly the psychiatrist is a miracle worker!!
Let me know if anyone else has a difficult child they would like her to "cure"--I'd be happy to give out her number....
I'm sorry--there just don't seem to be enough "angry" faces to reflect my emotions...
--DaisyF
I am SOOO aggravated right now...so I am sorry if this turns into a rambling rant.
We had a psychiatrist appointment this evening--mostly to get difficult child's Celexa script refilled....
And psychiatrist began asking difficult child how she is doing in school. Well, she had a little sob story that despite trying really, really hard...she has all C's and D's. psychiatrist wanted to know if we were getting extra acedemic help for her--and that's when I informed psychiatrist that difficult child is, in fact, NOT trying really, really, hard...her teachers are reporting that she is just not doing the homework. I also told psychiatrist that we are sick of the daily homework battles and so husband and I ask about the homework--if difficult child says everything's great--we leave it at that. The end.
Well, psychiatrist completely disagrees about detaching on this issue and begins to design a reward/punishment system that she feels would be really effective at encouraging difficult child to get her homework done.
I say been there done that, and frankly, I don't want to play the games anymore where I have to guess whether or not difficult child is just lying about having no homework, or finishing homework in class, or did it during study hall etc. etc. etc.
[Here comes the part you have to sit down for:]
psychiatrist turns to difficult child and asks "Will you stop lying to your parents about homework?"
difficult child responds "Yeah"
And psychiatrist says "See? She won't lie to you about the homework any more."
What a moron I am to think that all these years we've been playing these games, dealing with all of difficult child's lying, sneaking around, making up stories, and other bull****--and I could have solved the whole problem by just asking her nicely not to lie any more?!?
Truly the psychiatrist is a miracle worker!!
Let me know if anyone else has a difficult child they would like her to "cure"--I'd be happy to give out her number....
I'm sorry--there just don't seem to be enough "angry" faces to reflect my emotions...
--DaisyF