Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
school vs home
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="mandcc96" data-source="post: 146575" data-attributes="member: 5075"><p>I swear I feel like I like with 2 different people. She's home from school (after getting in trouble there) and is all nice and in control. Even when we had a "discussion" about her behavior. There was no exploding that is so typical about her when she's confronted. I told her she is grounded and she has been cooperating for the most part (although I can't really say me blocking all the channels on the TV and locking the computer with a password is cooperating on her part) but at least she's not screaming and yelling or even better, being obnoxious to see if she can bother me enough to send her on her way. This is the "egg-shell" part though. She'll seem fine and able to handle things and then kaboom! The side of her that hates everyone and is mean and miserable will come out and cause chaos. I'd love to have this cooperative, peaceful teenager for just a little longer (she hasn't even tried to torment the cat...I'd almost wonder if she hadn't found her own way to self medicate if she weren't grounded to the house LOL). The riddiculous thing is that I can almost fool myself for a moment to believe that maybe things aren't as bad as they are when she's raging, but almost only counts in horshoes and hand grenades. Anyways, bedtimes in a couple of hours and that's never and easy task so here's hoping everyone else has a peaceful dinnertime. Thanks so much for giving me a place where I can get some of this off my chest without feeling like a bad parent, for being able to share the good with the bad without judgement that my child (soon not to be anymore) is just a "bad" kid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mandcc96, post: 146575, member: 5075"] I swear I feel like I like with 2 different people. She's home from school (after getting in trouble there) and is all nice and in control. Even when we had a "discussion" about her behavior. There was no exploding that is so typical about her when she's confronted. I told her she is grounded and she has been cooperating for the most part (although I can't really say me blocking all the channels on the TV and locking the computer with a password is cooperating on her part) but at least she's not screaming and yelling or even better, being obnoxious to see if she can bother me enough to send her on her way. This is the "egg-shell" part though. She'll seem fine and able to handle things and then kaboom! The side of her that hates everyone and is mean and miserable will come out and cause chaos. I'd love to have this cooperative, peaceful teenager for just a little longer (she hasn't even tried to torment the cat...I'd almost wonder if she hadn't found her own way to self medicate if she weren't grounded to the house LOL). The riddiculous thing is that I can almost fool myself for a moment to believe that maybe things aren't as bad as they are when she's raging, but almost only counts in horshoes and hand grenades. Anyways, bedtimes in a couple of hours and that's never and easy task so here's hoping everyone else has a peaceful dinnertime. Thanks so much for giving me a place where I can get some of this off my chest without feeling like a bad parent, for being able to share the good with the bad without judgement that my child (soon not to be anymore) is just a "bad" kid. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
school vs home
Top