Friday, October 10, 2008
One step forward, two steps back
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Yikes Kristen you've got a lot going on there. You really needed this on top of the whole moving thing...
ReplyDeleteI have to recommend the book 'Parent Effectiveness Training' by Dr Thomas Gordon for providing some really useful tools for listening to kids and working out what's really bugging them as well as finding solutions that work for everyone.
Good luck!
At least if you ever decide to run away from your problems you know you'd get pretty far.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't see how his bad grades make you a bad mom. You have made sure he has the tools he needs. He's got the support, he's got the brains, he's deciding to, uh, focus his attentions in a different area. You've surrounded that horse in water and he's looking at the clouds. But they are lovely clouds and someday he'll get thirsty and drink.
What a sweet metaphor, eh? My kids can't play with matches because I don't own them. Instead they get to play with those gas clicker lighters and with hot glue guns. Grey is very *now* as a hair color, you know?