Thanks, Claire... If I don't come up with consequences how am I supposed to enforce the rules??? I send her to her room and she just keeps coming out to scream at me and kick stuff. This is what she's been like since she was 2.
Her father wouldn't have given it back right then. He's only going to see her every other week (and not at all in the month of June). If the iPad is forfeit he won't have access to return it to her.
I understood EXACTLY what was up with her -- she was overtired from a sleep over. It wasn't a cry for help or anything else. Believe me, I've read twenty parenting books to understand how to reach her. I've talked to pediatricians. She's taken up session of my IC time. She just has a tremendously difficult temperament. She's super smart and knows how to get people where it hurts. She has already apologized and returned to her sweet self and acknowledged that she was just taking out her tiredness on me. But if I let her just walk all over me all the time it just makes things worse. She seems to think she's being ignored if she acts up and nobody responds to her.
Me42, H40 D12, S8, S7 A revealed: 7/13 Sep 4/14; Agreed to D 1/15
