neednewtechnique
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Do you ever think that we get so caught up in our children's "difficult child-ness" :hypnosis: that we forget what it is like to handle "normal, age-appropriate" misbehaviors?!?! Most parents DREAD their children's "tween" and teen years as they are afraid of the attitude and the stunts their children will try to pull that are generally very normal, testing the waters type of things. We have had such a nightmare the last few months dealing with our daughter's difficult child-ness that I think we JUST had our difficult child's only SECOND "normal" problem since she moved here. The first one occurred a couple months ago and we were still so wrapped up in the difficult child-ness that we didn't even really notice, but this time something was different and it got me thinking. FINALLY a NORMAL TEENAGER PROBLEM!!!! To most parents, this would be a big disappointment, but to me it SCREAMS PROGRESS!!! :thumb: Mostly the part that SHOCKS me into TOTAL JOY the most is that we got through it without our difficult child having a meltdown and she was appropriately reprimanded, and even thought nice enough after we were done with our talk to apologize to me for sneaking around and lying to me. Again, PROGRESS!!!
Sorry, this is just me thinking out loud and trying to be "intellectual" or something..... :smile:
Sorry, this is just me thinking out loud and trying to be "intellectual" or something..... :smile: