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<blockquote data-quote="Jena" data-source="post: 221836" data-attributes="member: 4514"><p>Terry</p><p> </p><p>hi how are you?? LOl..... i'm tired but happy. if that counts for anything.</p><p> </p><p>So, when i said i dont' spend quality time with her i should of been clearer, I meant i dont' spend quality time with her when she's supposed to be sleeping. I dont' draw with her at 2 a.m. or sing with her or jump with her. Besides that, sure we spend tons of time together and I dont' feel a bit guilty about working. nope, not at all. plus it'l be around her schedule.</p><p> </p><p>If I try to contain her, which I try to do two nights a week when boyfriend's kids are home it's a nightmare situation. She wakes the other kids, she screams, sings, jumps, dances climbs, you name it!! oh my ..........!!!! </p><p> </p><p>Here's my deal, I don't want to leave her alone because I don't trust her. I really don't. She does odd things, and i don't want to run the risk of leaving her alone and waking to her doing something destructive.</p><p> </p><p>difficult child is huge huge emotionally needy. Bigtime, yet it's been going fairly well during day especially weekends i've been trying this new thing someone gave me an idea here about. I'll say ok difficult child i'm going to go and i pick something i'm going to do alone, it could be as simple as go into the bathroom lol, but when i come out we'll do this together. I flip flop it all day long. It's working pretty well, she still has her slip ups of being behind me to the point where if i trick the child could easily fall up my *ss so to speak. lol.</p><p> </p><p>Yet at night i am not flip flopping anything. difficult child is able to channel really well at night yet every now and again and unsafe thing will occur, either with food she touches or huge kitchen scissors of knives, etc. (note to self hide knives). </p><p> </p><p>As far as the manic carp and sleeplessness she's not anxiety ridden she's happy ready to go, she could run a mile, paint a house, draw a picasso. It started off as an infant until she got accustomed to being born i always say lol, she was sleepless, part of losing my marriage was we weren't tough enough or strong enough together to handle her undying demands even in infancy. Yet i've noticed the manic stuff has increased thru the years, as have the responsibilities of being older schoolwork, tests, reality has. which makes total sense to me.</p><p> </p><p>Now granted i'd much rather have a ridiculously happy kid up and bouncing about than where we were last year with her hysterical crying every night for hours before passing out, that was before the medications, when she was in as the school put it crisis mode.</p><p> </p><p>i've learned alot by being here and i've also learned that as they grow and the hormones kick in the behaviors change. That is why i'm so against allowing this mania to go thru the nights, because as we enter into pre puberty and she begins to realize more and more ok this is soo not cool i have to get to bed i have this, this and that tmrw. her aggrivation will grow and i'm assuming the behaviors will no longer be just drawing pics and stuff.</p><p> </p><p>so, hmmm what do you think????</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jena, post: 221836, member: 4514"] Terry hi how are you?? LOl..... i'm tired but happy. if that counts for anything. So, when i said i dont' spend quality time with her i should of been clearer, I meant i dont' spend quality time with her when she's supposed to be sleeping. I dont' draw with her at 2 a.m. or sing with her or jump with her. Besides that, sure we spend tons of time together and I dont' feel a bit guilty about working. nope, not at all. plus it'l be around her schedule. If I try to contain her, which I try to do two nights a week when boyfriend's kids are home it's a nightmare situation. She wakes the other kids, she screams, sings, jumps, dances climbs, you name it!! oh my ..........!!!! Here's my deal, I don't want to leave her alone because I don't trust her. I really don't. She does odd things, and i don't want to run the risk of leaving her alone and waking to her doing something destructive. difficult child is huge huge emotionally needy. Bigtime, yet it's been going fairly well during day especially weekends i've been trying this new thing someone gave me an idea here about. I'll say ok difficult child i'm going to go and i pick something i'm going to do alone, it could be as simple as go into the bathroom lol, but when i come out we'll do this together. I flip flop it all day long. It's working pretty well, she still has her slip ups of being behind me to the point where if i trick the child could easily fall up my *ss so to speak. lol. Yet at night i am not flip flopping anything. difficult child is able to channel really well at night yet every now and again and unsafe thing will occur, either with food she touches or huge kitchen scissors of knives, etc. (note to self hide knives). As far as the manic carp and sleeplessness she's not anxiety ridden she's happy ready to go, she could run a mile, paint a house, draw a picasso. It started off as an infant until she got accustomed to being born i always say lol, she was sleepless, part of losing my marriage was we weren't tough enough or strong enough together to handle her undying demands even in infancy. Yet i've noticed the manic stuff has increased thru the years, as have the responsibilities of being older schoolwork, tests, reality has. which makes total sense to me. Now granted i'd much rather have a ridiculously happy kid up and bouncing about than where we were last year with her hysterical crying every night for hours before passing out, that was before the medications, when she was in as the school put it crisis mode. i've learned alot by being here and i've also learned that as they grow and the hormones kick in the behaviors change. That is why i'm so against allowing this mania to go thru the nights, because as we enter into pre puberty and she begins to realize more and more ok this is soo not cool i have to get to bed i have this, this and that tmrw. her aggrivation will grow and i'm assuming the behaviors will no longer be just drawing pics and stuff. so, hmmm what do you think???? [/QUOTE]
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