I don't know what was going on with my kids last night.. or the night before.. <sigh>
It's hard enough trying to find out from the one that can talk what's wrong, but from the two that aren't completely verbal.. that gets to be interesting. The other night the youngest wasn't happy, but I couldn't get her to tell me why (she's delayed to missing part of her brain). I kind of figured it was partly due to being tired and partly from being hungry. Last night the boy asked to ride home with me from dinner (we went out). As we're going, he starts shouting about wanting to go with Daddy. So I'm like OK and walk him over and then start to leave. Apparently the moment he got into the van with Daddy, he started carrying on about wanting to ride with me. So he gets him out and walks him over to me and then the moment he's with me he starts in about Daddy again.
Needless to say, by then I had had it and put him in my car. Once we got on the road, he was better. I don't know if it's energy created by the lunar eclipse that has the kids in a tizzy or just plain crankiness, but please.. this Mom would LOVE for it all to go.
The idea I had about my daughter and doing a book, well that got put on hold. What I did instead is bought a red cape and she can be Red Riding Hood. With the days getting colder, I think that's a better idea.
Wish me luck for tonight that the kids will be feeling better and not whiny as we have church. Here's to hoping :)
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
Drama of pre-pre teens
My eldest is 8 years old. I love her to pieces, but she is all over the place. She can be happy one minute.. sad the next.. then angry after that.
I came home last night and she hadn't done all her homework. I was running late, so I had her come up to try and work on it. I can't do this.. I can't do that.. crying crying crying... just what I wanted to do for my evening.
She's a very bright young girl, but she gets caught up in "drama". If it doesn't come easy to her she doesn't want to apply herself.
The teacher has commented a few times that her handwriting is very bad. So I've been making her write out her spelling words. Figure it's helping in 2 areas.
Last night's math homework, she knew how to do but didn't know how to explain it. So I wrote a sentence down for her and then she went into melt down because she couldn't write that whole thing in the space she had. It was too many words. So I tried to put it in a very easy way to show it and she doesn't do that either. She "writes" it. Which is fine, she did it her way and in her own manner, but this was an over an hour trying to get that one thing done. And we still had other homework to do. Of course this all comes up at "bedtime". So there goes my going to bed early. But we did get it all done.
I try very desperately to work on her confidence in a realistic manner. I try to minimize the crying and carrying on she does. I asked my Mom if I was ever like that and she told me no. She apparently gets it from my Mom.
All I can do is pray when she becomes a teen it doesn't get that much worse. But I have a feeling it'll be worse before better...
I came home last night and she hadn't done all her homework. I was running late, so I had her come up to try and work on it. I can't do this.. I can't do that.. crying crying crying... just what I wanted to do for my evening.
She's a very bright young girl, but she gets caught up in "drama". If it doesn't come easy to her she doesn't want to apply herself.
The teacher has commented a few times that her handwriting is very bad. So I've been making her write out her spelling words. Figure it's helping in 2 areas.
Last night's math homework, she knew how to do but didn't know how to explain it. So I wrote a sentence down for her and then she went into melt down because she couldn't write that whole thing in the space she had. It was too many words. So I tried to put it in a very easy way to show it and she doesn't do that either. She "writes" it. Which is fine, she did it her way and in her own manner, but this was an over an hour trying to get that one thing done. And we still had other homework to do. Of course this all comes up at "bedtime". So there goes my going to bed early. But we did get it all done.
I try very desperately to work on her confidence in a realistic manner. I try to minimize the crying and carrying on she does. I asked my Mom if I was ever like that and she told me no. She apparently gets it from my Mom.
All I can do is pray when she becomes a teen it doesn't get that much worse. But I have a feeling it'll be worse before better...
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