It’s been quite a while since I last posted, and so much has happened, which I don’t care to rehash at this point, but I am so thankful and grateful that I have my husband! We almost lost him and we are just so happy that modern medicine saved him and we still have him.
We are all adjusting and getting back to some normallcy now. Scoober just realized a week or so ago, that daddy is going to have this condition forever, but we explained to him that if he didn’t have it, he would not be alive. Winks is a little young to understand, she just knows she can now give daddy big neck hugs again.
We still struggle with our normal parenting issues, and I’ll soon be diving back into the Total Transformation program, which Lesson 4 is getting your child’s attitude back on track. This comes just in time, as Scoober is still mouthy, but it seems as he continues to find himself, it’s getting a little more intense.
Winks is on the verge of potty training, as she asks to go to the potty and she will go #1, and #2 she’ll go only if she absolutely cannot hold it in anymore. Hopefully that will change as we started yesterday on “no bottles”. She didn’t drink any milk all day, except at bedtime I gave her a bottle before bed. We’ll see how day two goes.
I’m also very thankful that I have a job during this rough economy. I have money to spend on Christmas gifts early this year, and will be attending the Black Friday sales tomorrow and shopping a little online, too for those deals I cannot find in the stores. This year I’m approaching it a little differently and realizing that my kids don’t need LOTS of gifts. I think Santa told me that he was only going to get them 1 gift, since things are so expensive nowadays. I think that’s plenty considering some kids don’t get anything for Christmas.
Please take time out, if you read my blog to be thankful for all you have and all you can give this year, and reflect on what you could/should do better in your own lives.
God Bless!
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Well, I can say that I’ve listened to the CD for lesson 3 and it talks about how to use other roles like coaching, to help your kids and effective ways to do it. The other 2 roles escape me right now, but I did listen, honest.
I still need to read lesson 3 in the workbook, but with Husband’s medical stuff going on, we’ve been focused on that.
I can tell you that Scoober has been trying to push buttons and he’s really getting a smart mouth, which we are not standing for that in our house. I have to admit that I’ve raised my voice and even yelled during this stressful time and I feel badly that I did that. BUT, I do think Scoober is realizing that he cannot get away with his bad behavior and talking back and talking at us the way he does. He’s taking forever to get good behavior check marks on his chart we made before school started!
I’m determined to get back on track by the weekend and have lesson 3 read and work through the examples. I will try to post back on what it says, briefly, and what I am going to try with this lesson.
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Hi everyone! So sorry I haven’t posted, but we’ve got some families health issues going on right now.
I will say that although I’ve listened to Lesson 3, but I’m going to have to listen to it again. I’ve just continued working on myself in how I deal with Scoober. I’ve raised my voice a few times, but Im trying not to yell. He did get a little lippy with me yesterday, but I stuck to my guns and he wasn’t changing my mind. For the past 2 mornings he’s given me trouble about getting up. I wake him up, tell him what time it is, tell him breakfast is ready, that we are leaving at 8:15am. If he’s not ready, I simply say that Winks and I will be in the van please shut the door and make sure it’s locked when you come out. He was almost late yesterday, but he’s got to learn about time management. He was awake, he was just doddling.
I will hopefully be able to listen to Lesson 3 tonight and start working on that next week. I will update about Lesson 3, what it’s about and what I took from it. Then post during the week on our progress. With pending medical issues, forgive me if I don’t post right away, as my family is my number 1 priority.
