I get this award today. I am awarding this to myself today. I think My daughter will agree that I deserve this today.
Rosie is 13. She has been doing pretty good for a long stretch of months. No placements or ER visits...We have been doing fantastically. Since February she has been amping up her behaviors (yes this does correspond to her sister's arrest and subsequent placement out of the home- this is not lost on me) and she does whatever she can to miss the bus in hopes of getting a "mental health day". Which is a day for her to sit at home and eat bon bons while she watches TV. Yeah well...I deserve that not her....lol...and I ain't getting it so neither is she.
So this morning, she refused to get dressed and had a RADtastic meltdown...Super dupper fun! So she missed the bus and I had to drive her to school. Because they know the family stuff going on, they tend to be lenient with her about her tardies. Well...This is certainly something she is beginning to abuse...SO when I dropped her off at school, I went into the school to remind them of their 5 tardies equals Saturday detention rule. So now Rosie will have a saturday detention....Sometimes, its just how the cookie crumbles....
If looks could kill, I certainly would have won a parenting award when Rosie looked at me in the office this morning....lol
2 comments:
Good for you - sometimes the tough mothering is the mothering they need most.
When my daughter, at age 7ish, called me "the worst mommy in the world" I called my mom and cheered, "I'm in the club!"
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