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[quote=Anonymous]You definitely have an anxiety issue and should get help with that.  The always needing to be in control, always being extra early for things, catastrophic thinking, definitely cry out anxiety.  If the therapist you tried before was not helpful, try someone else.  Sometimes it takes a couple tries to find a good fit.

As to managing your anxiety in the meantime…

1.  Talk to the school to explain your concerns about base closings that might impact being on time/getting there at all.  Ask them how can you best handle that?  If they say it’s a big problem and if you are late because of that more than x times you are getting kicked out well, then, time to start looking for a different school that will be more accommodating.  You aren’t being “punished”, it’s just that you have learned that the school isn’t a good fit with your lifestyle.

2. Having to arrive in a 10-min window when you like to be 20 min+ early for things.  Just be 20 min early and park on a neighborhood street nearby.  Use the time to read or talk with your DD.

3.  Uniform issues – if she’s taking it off at school, the teacher will deal with it.  She will see other kids wearing it and probably adapt eventually.  Try the sticker motivation charts PP mentioned.  The most “punishment” likely to happen is a note home to you to work with her on it.  If she won’t come around and the school is strict about it then, again, start looking for a different school that is a better fit.  Again, you aren’t being “punished”, just have learned that the school isn’t a good fit for your child.

4.  The 10 absence limit – this is just life and every parent who isn’t homeschooling deals with it.  You vacation during school breaks.  You schedule dentist/doctor appointments for after school whenever you can.  My kids are 14 and 16 and only one has ever come close to the 10 absence limit in a school year when she got the flu twice.  They just don’t get sick that often.

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