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<blockquote data-quote="graceupongrace" data-source="post: 300131" data-attributes="member: 7371"><p>Daisyface,</p><p></p><p>This is a good opportunity to let someone else -- the school and the ROTC officers -- be the "bad guys" for a change. Once you explain the dress code to her, it's her responsibility to live by it. And if she doesn't, the authorities will let her know about it and enforce the consequences! Other people (not just parents) make rules too, and they will not be amused by the antics of a difficult child. It's a good lesson.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child isn't too bad about hygiene, but when he does stink, I let him know gently, and I always add, "I just want to tell you before someone else does."</p><p></p><p>I also started having difficult child do his own laundry a couple of years ago. It's good training for being out on his own, and if the shirt he wants to wear isn't clean, he has only himself to blame -- not me. He has his own hamper in his room, and he does dig clothes out of it to wear, but I try to just let it go. </p><p></p><p>I'm always clean and well-groomed, and I figure that if he is not, at his age, it reflects badly on him and not me.</p><p></p><p>All that said, I know it's frustrating when they can't even seem to do the minimum. ((( Hugs!!!! )))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="graceupongrace, post: 300131, member: 7371"] Daisyface, This is a good opportunity to let someone else -- the school and the ROTC officers -- be the "bad guys" for a change. Once you explain the dress code to her, it's her responsibility to live by it. And if she doesn't, the authorities will let her know about it and enforce the consequences! Other people (not just parents) make rules too, and they will not be amused by the antics of a difficult child. It's a good lesson. My difficult child isn't too bad about hygiene, but when he does stink, I let him know gently, and I always add, "I just want to tell you before someone else does." I also started having difficult child do his own laundry a couple of years ago. It's good training for being out on his own, and if the shirt he wants to wear isn't clean, he has only himself to blame -- not me. He has his own hamper in his room, and he does dig clothes out of it to wear, but I try to just let it go. I'm always clean and well-groomed, and I figure that if he is not, at his age, it reflects badly on him and not me. All that said, I know it's frustrating when they can't even seem to do the minimum. ((( Hugs!!!! ))) [/QUOTE]
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