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<blockquote data-quote="overwhelmed..." data-source="post: 205767" data-attributes="member: 6184"><p>Thanks for the welcome, guys.</p><p> </p><p>Her dad is an amazing parent. Very supportive. We work as a team with her and are very united when it comes to discipline and parenting. </p><p> </p><p>As far as her therapist is concerned, it has been a long road finding one that she will actually open up in the teensiest, tinsiest way. When we first started her on medication about a year ago and things greatly improved he said that she didn't need to see him anymore on a weekly basis and that we should contact him when/if things got bad again. He said that she wasn't emotionally developed enough to really deal with her feelings about her mother and that was about it. So things were going pretty well for awhile and then everything kind of fell apart within the past couple of months. We are going to see her therapist next week and see what steps we are going to now try and take. He seems to always give the answer of "medication." While I agree the medication is part of the answer, I really think she needs therapy to help her deal with her anger issues and how to appropriately display them. If he doesn't see things in the same light, we will be on the search again for a new therapist. </p><p> </p><p>She has not had a full evaluation. BUt she did take a few tests at her therapists office and he said ADHD, ODD. He described it like this: He held up his hand and crossed his fingers. He said ADHD and ODD go together like this. He then said his index finger was ADHD and then he put down his index finger and said that ODD was the middle finger and flipped us off! He was being humerous, and it was funny. We have to keep a sense of humor otherwise we'd both go crazy from all of this insanity. </p><p> </p><p>THe grandma's living at home are both a blessing and a nightmare all at the same time. GG (great grandma) isn't a problem at all. She's really mentally there, but so old she can't really do anything one way or the other. Grandma on the other hand is another story. She wants nothing to do with being a parent and helping us. SHe says so on numerous occasions. She wants to be her friend and is constantly breaking rules and giving into her whinning and crying(reinforcing her bad behavior). It's tough. </p><p> </p><p>How is it possible to focus on only one negative behavior at a time? I find it impossible to ignore anything. In her mind, if anything goes by the wayside, then that means that she can get away with it and it's o.k.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="overwhelmed..., post: 205767, member: 6184"] Thanks for the welcome, guys. Her dad is an amazing parent. Very supportive. We work as a team with her and are very united when it comes to discipline and parenting. As far as her therapist is concerned, it has been a long road finding one that she will actually open up in the teensiest, tinsiest way. When we first started her on medication about a year ago and things greatly improved he said that she didn't need to see him anymore on a weekly basis and that we should contact him when/if things got bad again. He said that she wasn't emotionally developed enough to really deal with her feelings about her mother and that was about it. So things were going pretty well for awhile and then everything kind of fell apart within the past couple of months. We are going to see her therapist next week and see what steps we are going to now try and take. He seems to always give the answer of "medication." While I agree the medication is part of the answer, I really think she needs therapy to help her deal with her anger issues and how to appropriately display them. If he doesn't see things in the same light, we will be on the search again for a new therapist. She has not had a full evaluation. BUt she did take a few tests at her therapists office and he said ADHD, ODD. He described it like this: He held up his hand and crossed his fingers. He said ADHD and ODD go together like this. He then said his index finger was ADHD and then he put down his index finger and said that ODD was the middle finger and flipped us off! He was being humerous, and it was funny. We have to keep a sense of humor otherwise we'd both go crazy from all of this insanity. THe grandma's living at home are both a blessing and a nightmare all at the same time. GG (great grandma) isn't a problem at all. She's really mentally there, but so old she can't really do anything one way or the other. Grandma on the other hand is another story. She wants nothing to do with being a parent and helping us. SHe says so on numerous occasions. She wants to be her friend and is constantly breaking rules and giving into her whinning and crying(reinforcing her bad behavior). It's tough. How is it possible to focus on only one negative behavior at a time? I find it impossible to ignore anything. In her mind, if anything goes by the wayside, then that means that she can get away with it and it's o.k. [/QUOTE]
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