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[quote=Anonymous]I have four kids. Three are in various places in the spectrum. My oldest is incredibly difficult and has been since he was a baby. Of course, I didn’t know it because he was my oldest. I believed what everyone told me ie. that I was a terrible parent. But everything from getting him to sleep through the night to toilet training to homework to learning to drive to interviewing for a job has been a huge challenge. On a positive note, it’s made me kind of a super parent to my younger kids. I took two weeks off to teach my other kids to toilet train, and they got it in a day and we got to just have fun the rest of the time. I used the tricks I figured out to help my oldest do okay on the HSPT and the SAT with my younger kids, and they ended up with scholarships to high school and college. But yeah. A difficult kid is a difficult kid. And there is no getting past the idea that maybe you are just a terrible mother. [/quote]
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