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<blockquote data-quote="momslove" data-source="post: 348331" data-attributes="member: 2181"><p>I just spent 30 minutes or more tweaking my signature. It ended up tweaking me instead. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/faint.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":faint:" title="faint :faint:" data-shortname=":faint:" /> Took forever to shorten it up enough to make it work. *whew* Let's see if I can remember what I intended to write, before I got the great idea to add to my signature. Let me first say that I appreciate all the responses from all of you. It's very nice to be able to get this stuff off my chest with people who know and understand how frustrating and upsetting all this can be.</p><p></p><p>Sharon: Taking difficult child to a psychiatrist has been suggested to me here on the forum before. The thing is, there are no psychiatrists here, and it's 50 miles away in any direction to a city that would likely have one, and that would be a definite problem for our family. And I have to admit that even if there <em>was </em>a local psychiatrist, I'm not so sure that we would want to go that route, anyway. </p><p></p><p>Last week's outburst is not a common thing. When he was in elementary school, it was, but over time, we (us, school, difficult child) learned ways to prevent them from happening/lessen the occurrence, and it is extremely rare for him to have a physical outburst anymore. He can be very impertinent when it's discovered that he is not doing his (online) assignments and he is questioned about it, however, so it's fair to say he does have verbal outbursts from time to time. I may be making a horrible mistake in judgment here, but I just don't know that a psychiatrist is really needed for those issues. Any kid, whether he/she is a difficult child or not, can decide to stop doing their schoolwork, and get mouthy with their teacher(s)/principal about it when questioned, and his excuses for that behavior is every bit as lame as another child's would be. (Not aggressive, etc. Just typical teen stuff, in other words.)</p><p></p><p>I <em>am</em>, however, seriously thinking about asking for a complete reevaluation, anyway. Not because I'm convinced he has other, or at least different, issues... I guess it's pretty easy to tell that I'm not... but because we're working on an old evaluation here. I don't relish the thought of going through all that again, but I think it might be in his best interests. I would like very much to have the same psychologist speak with him again, if he was available to do so. I wasn't thrilled with all he had to say the first time around, but I never felt he was biased in any way, and respected his opinions. I would very much like to know if he felt difficult child has progressed/improved over the years, or whatever. I don't like the idea that he might (again) tell us something I didn't want to hear, but I know it is possible.</p><p></p><p>Did I just contradict myself in those two paragraphs? I guess I did, sort of... story of my life... always going back and forth on this stuff. LOL I might do better if I got more sleep from time to time. I'll come back later today and post again after I've caught a little snooze time. There's just not enough hours in the day to do everything, but I keep trying to find them, at the expense of a normal bedtime. NOT smart!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="momslove, post: 348331, member: 2181"] I just spent 30 minutes or more tweaking my signature. It ended up tweaking me instead. :knockedout: Took forever to shorten it up enough to make it work. *whew* Let's see if I can remember what I intended to write, before I got the great idea to add to my signature. Let me first say that I appreciate all the responses from all of you. It's very nice to be able to get this stuff off my chest with people who know and understand how frustrating and upsetting all this can be. Sharon: Taking difficult child to a psychiatrist has been suggested to me here on the forum before. The thing is, there are no psychiatrists here, and it's 50 miles away in any direction to a city that would likely have one, and that would be a definite problem for our family. And I have to admit that even if there [I]was [/I]a local psychiatrist, I'm not so sure that we would want to go that route, anyway. Last week's outburst is not a common thing. When he was in elementary school, it was, but over time, we (us, school, difficult child) learned ways to prevent them from happening/lessen the occurrence, and it is extremely rare for him to have a physical outburst anymore. He can be very impertinent when it's discovered that he is not doing his (online) assignments and he is questioned about it, however, so it's fair to say he does have verbal outbursts from time to time. I may be making a horrible mistake in judgment here, but I just don't know that a psychiatrist is really needed for those issues. Any kid, whether he/she is a difficult child or not, can decide to stop doing their schoolwork, and get mouthy with their teacher(s)/principal about it when questioned, and his excuses for that behavior is every bit as lame as another child's would be. (Not aggressive, etc. Just typical teen stuff, in other words.) I [I]am[/I], however, seriously thinking about asking for a complete reevaluation, anyway. Not because I'm convinced he has other, or at least different, issues... I guess it's pretty easy to tell that I'm not... but because we're working on an old evaluation here. I don't relish the thought of going through all that again, but I think it might be in his best interests. I would like very much to have the same psychologist speak with him again, if he was available to do so. I wasn't thrilled with all he had to say the first time around, but I never felt he was biased in any way, and respected his opinions. I would very much like to know if he felt difficult child has progressed/improved over the years, or whatever. I don't like the idea that he might (again) tell us something I didn't want to hear, but I know it is possible. Did I just contradict myself in those two paragraphs? I guess I did, sort of... story of my life... always going back and forth on this stuff. LOL I might do better if I got more sleep from time to time. I'll come back later today and post again after I've caught a little snooze time. There's just not enough hours in the day to do everything, but I keep trying to find them, at the expense of a normal bedtime. NOT smart! [/QUOTE]
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