Well, difficult child is grounded today. He was so obnoxious in the car yesterday, arguing with Every. Single. Thing. And then insisting it wasn't arguing.
I walked up to his girlfriend's door when I dropped her off and her mom came outside and difficult child continued arguing right in front of her. Then he started to cry. I told him fine, you can choose. You can be grounded now, or tomorrow.
He wanted to be away from me and that took care of that.
When he came home, he, husband and I had a mtng and I told him that we are going to up his medications, continue his therapy, and he is grounded all day Saturday.
This isn't even including the grade issue, by the way.
So this a.m., while I was in a mtng, I get a msg from girlfriend's mom, "So, do you want me to pick up the kids and take them to lunch?"
I called her back and said, "Kids? You mean D is over at my house? difficult child is grounded."
"Oh. I, uh, so, he's grounded all day."
"Yes. That's what I said yesterday. Did D walk over?"
"I'll go pick her up right away."
A little while later, the mom calls back and says, "D is grounded all week. She told me she was just walking around ... yeah, right."
Of course, difficult child insisted she didn't know he was grounded. Like she wasn't standing there while he argued with me and then begged and got teary eyed last night in front of her mom.
This is like catching frogs. They're all over the place and they're so difficult to keep track of!