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<blockquote data-quote="CsonStar" data-source="post: 32674" data-attributes="member: 3607"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kjs</div><div class="ubbcode-body"></p><p></p><p>Just would like the neighbors and there perfect kids to just for a day or so walk in the shoes of anyone here. Maybe then they would not have those rude, mean things to say to difficult child and to us.</p><p></p><p> </div></div></p><p></p><p>Amen to that. I get yelled at constantly by my neighbors, because they never see our child outside playing. I have to explain to them his condition (each time this happens I have to explain it over and over, I am starting to think THEY are the ones that are "slow"). And explain that he has already failed a few grades, and as much of a fight as it is to get him to do his homework, with motivation, he will EVENTUALLY get it done. There is a lot of "I can't do it" and "This sucks" and ALWAYS ALWAYS a crying fit or 87, but usually by the end of it, he is apologizing to me, and saying he is glad that I made him do it, because now he knows how to do it. And strangly, when I stopped just "accepting" that he couldn't do it, and actually started motivating him (not <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ing, or complaining or yelling, well some yelling, but that is due to other issues) his grades have actually improved. Now it is just a behavior problem, he is still low in grades, but they have came up, so I am very proud of him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CsonStar, post: 32674, member: 3607"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kjs</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Just would like the neighbors and there perfect kids to just for a day or so walk in the shoes of anyone here. Maybe then they would not have those rude, mean things to say to difficult child and to us. </div></div> Amen to that. I get yelled at constantly by my neighbors, because they never see our child outside playing. I have to explain to them his condition (each time this happens I have to explain it over and over, I am starting to think THEY are the ones that are "slow"). And explain that he has already failed a few grades, and as much of a fight as it is to get him to do his homework, with motivation, he will EVENTUALLY get it done. There is a lot of "I can't do it" and "This sucks" and ALWAYS ALWAYS a crying fit or 87, but usually by the end of it, he is apologizing to me, and saying he is glad that I made him do it, because now he knows how to do it. And strangly, when I stopped just "accepting" that he couldn't do it, and actually started motivating him (not :censored2:ing, or complaining or yelling, well some yelling, but that is due to other issues) his grades have actually improved. Now it is just a behavior problem, he is still low in grades, but they have came up, so I am very proud of him. [/QUOTE]
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