Calling out the Piecers

[dday101798]

That's a valid thought Mish.

Her problem is and has always been to issue consequence with them. Also, if and when she does issue a consequence for poor behvior, she often never upholds those consequences.

It was also a constant dilemma working together. They'd get bad grades or something and say 'no TV unil midterms' was the punishment. Well, give it a few days and I'd get in the door from work, and there they are watching TV.

So, remove that element from the equation and when punishments are ever issued by me when they are with me, they are upheld.

so, they are well behaved with me becasue they know I will follow through and also because I don't have to yell and scream to get my point across and they respect that.

That said, she does need to find 'quieter' ways to display her displeasure with them, but at the same time, conflicting because they are displeased with her over what happend to our family. I think we will be adding family counciling to the mix as well if this doesn't change. I have often suggested counseling for them, and she agreed, but never followed through. Hopefully we can get to church this weekend and that will be a start.