My easy child has turned into a difficult child. Big time. She is cutting, missing classes, grades dropping, and now last night I find out a friend has pierced her belly button in the middle school bathroom. She took out the hardware a couple days ago because it was infected. Now I am waiting for her therapist to schedule testing (presumably to find out levels of anxiety and depression) before scheduling appointment for consideration of medications.
difficult child continues to be a difficult child... Yesterday she missed her morning classes. She is failing 3 out of 5 classes, and today is the finals for two of those classes. She has been on Zoloft and another Rx for about 6 weeks. We see her prescribing nurse practitioner on Friday.
What to do?? So frustrated. Then I had a melt down last night, after husband got to play good cop to my bad cop. He crossed a line when he told easy child how adopting them was his choice and how much he wanted them. BS. He didn't want to adopt at first... And I was the one who suggested we separate/divorce because I knew I would resent him if we didn't adopt and I lost touch with them. Plus, I didn't want him to resent me for adopting. Yes, we later made the decision together, but him taking all the credit was more than I could bear.
Ksm
difficult child continues to be a difficult child... Yesterday she missed her morning classes. She is failing 3 out of 5 classes, and today is the finals for two of those classes. She has been on Zoloft and another Rx for about 6 weeks. We see her prescribing nurse practitioner on Friday.
What to do?? So frustrated. Then I had a melt down last night, after husband got to play good cop to my bad cop. He crossed a line when he told easy child how adopting them was his choice and how much he wanted them. BS. He didn't want to adopt at first... And I was the one who suggested we separate/divorce because I knew I would resent him if we didn't adopt and I lost touch with them. Plus, I didn't want him to resent me for adopting. Yes, we later made the decision together, but him taking all the credit was more than I could bear.
Ksm