Actually, I'm not going to blog about it either really. Suffice it to say, my darling child has not been quite so darling the last couple of weeks. All of this not darlingness came to a head yesterday while we were getting ready for school. I wanted to try walking to school, she didn't. An argument ensued and this comment was made, "I am really going to tell Daddy the truth of everything you did to me today."
Kinda funny, right? To me, not so much. Why isn't it funny? Well, something about that statement gave me a real kick in the pants. Like getting a bad evaluation at work, my child was giving me a report of how she thinks I am doing at my job and basically at that moment I think she'd have fired me. I know I'm not a bad mother. I see bad mothers on the news and I am certainly not there. But my child isn't happy, meaning that I am not being as good a mother as I could be. Hence:
Hopefully this will help both of us to remember to be happy girls. For her, if the chart gets full, she loses a privilege. Already this morning she's doing so much better. I heard her a few minutes ago explaining the program to her daddy and she keeps coming in here smiling a huge fake smile saying, "I am a happy girl!" We are 45 minutes into this and it's going pretty well. That's not a problem except for the fact that there are only 11 hours until bedtime.
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hmmm...I wonder what my evaluation would sound like?
Oh Shi, just give her what she wants.
So how did the rest of the day go. I hope well. It is really hard when our children think they know best.
The rest of the day was great and Saturday was wonderful as well. Today has been a little crazy, but Sunday always is. :) <---My Happy Girl Face!
I am so going to ask you how this has been going because Randi is the spawn of Satan ever since the other kids started school.
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