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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel sorry for your child. I really do. Your anxiety is going to drive your kid crazy never mind the people around you.

If the base is locked down, call the school and say that you can't get there because the base is locked down. I doubt you are the only family attending the school that lives on base.

You will get her to school on time because that is your job. It doesn't matter if it is public or private, there are consequences for missing school for anything other then an excused reason. Miss too much school for unexcused reason and she will not be invited back for the next grade. So work it out. You develop a morning routine and your child has consequences for not following that routine. Provide rewards at the beginning for following the routine.

She wears her uniform. You choose the school with the uniform that you knew she would not like to wearing. You figure out how to get her to wear her uniform. Again, there is nothing wrong with a reward system. She will get used to it and it is not going to be an issue.

But it sounds like you are dead set on having a miserable summer, spent crying about problems that have yet to occur, and complaining about a choice that you made.

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You're missing the point. I can't make sure she stays dressed. She's her own person. I can't control lockdowns. I can't even call the school since cell phones aren't allowed while driving! Since I graduated from high school, I've been able to control everything necessary to comply with all the rules in my life, and now I can't. Now I'm at the whim of dozens of other people, and it's very, very stressful to know I might break a rule regardless of all my attempts to comply. I honestly don't understand how people can deal with this. Do they not care about rules?

And yes, I saw a therapist about this. We had a dozen sessions of talking about my childhood before I realized it wasn't helping.[/quote]

The word is: adulting.

You can do it, OP.  We all do it.  [/quote]

I can adult just fine if other people aren't involved. But when the possibility of punishment for something someone else did it out there, then yes, I get anxious. [b]That's normal[/b]![/quote]

No, it's not.  [/quote]

Completely not.  [/quote]

So you're ok with being punished for something someone else did, even though you did everything you could to talk them out of it?[/quote]

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