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<blockquote data-quote="IT1967" data-source="post: 603051" data-attributes="member: 15615"><p>I was worrying so much about difficult child 1 and thought it'd be a much better summer for difficult child 2, and of course it was the other way around! difficult child 1 went to drama camp and it was FABULOUS! She had some nice friends that she went with and it was just a great all around experience. The camp really focuses on building the kids' confidence and it was perfect. difficult child 2 on the other hand went to sports camp. I had expected it to go fantastic because it's sports all day which he loves and several of his friends were at the camp too. Nothing drastic happened but I picked up some weird vibes that things didn't go perfectly smoothly with-his friends at camp and I totally stressed about it the whole time. Now camp is over and we have a month until school starts. Quite frankly, I'm dreading it a bit. The "I'm bored" complaints have already started. Camp ended Friday!! We are going on a short vacation next week, so we should be okay until those last 2 weeks. On top of it all, my mother in law is extremely sick with-end stage Stage IV cancer, and it's been a nightmare. We haven't discussed it a whole lot with-the kids. When we started to talk about it with-difficult child 1, she just shut down and did NOT want to discuss it. She is extremely close with-mother in law and I'm so scared thinking of how devastated the kids are going to be. It's awful. :cry </p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 has been doing *fairly* well, knock on wood, poo poo poo! There are still the harsh sharp reactions, but immediately followed with-an apology for the most part. But out in public, she's been really great, thank God! I'm more concerned with-difficult child 2. He's just so immature and still has been difficult at times. Far less than before, but I'm feeling concerned about him a bit. We see our therapist on Wednesady and I'm looking forward to it because we haven't seen her in over a month. We need a few visits to hash out approaches to deal with-difficult child 2 and guide us through telling the kids about mother in law. All in all, it's been better here, but it's never smooth sailing completely. Blah.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IT1967, post: 603051, member: 15615"] I was worrying so much about difficult child 1 and thought it'd be a much better summer for difficult child 2, and of course it was the other way around! difficult child 1 went to drama camp and it was FABULOUS! She had some nice friends that she went with and it was just a great all around experience. The camp really focuses on building the kids' confidence and it was perfect. difficult child 2 on the other hand went to sports camp. I had expected it to go fantastic because it's sports all day which he loves and several of his friends were at the camp too. Nothing drastic happened but I picked up some weird vibes that things didn't go perfectly smoothly with-his friends at camp and I totally stressed about it the whole time. Now camp is over and we have a month until school starts. Quite frankly, I'm dreading it a bit. The "I'm bored" complaints have already started. Camp ended Friday!! We are going on a short vacation next week, so we should be okay until those last 2 weeks. On top of it all, my mother in law is extremely sick with-end stage Stage IV cancer, and it's been a nightmare. We haven't discussed it a whole lot with-the kids. When we started to talk about it with-difficult child 1, she just shut down and did NOT want to discuss it. She is extremely close with-mother in law and I'm so scared thinking of how devastated the kids are going to be. It's awful. :cry difficult child 1 has been doing *fairly* well, knock on wood, poo poo poo! There are still the harsh sharp reactions, but immediately followed with-an apology for the most part. But out in public, she's been really great, thank God! I'm more concerned with-difficult child 2. He's just so immature and still has been difficult at times. Far less than before, but I'm feeling concerned about him a bit. We see our therapist on Wednesady and I'm looking forward to it because we haven't seen her in over a month. We need a few visits to hash out approaches to deal with-difficult child 2 and guide us through telling the kids about mother in law. All in all, it's been better here, but it's never smooth sailing completely. Blah. [/QUOTE]
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