Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s ok OP, I have been there.
Not ideal but it’s life.
Just don’t have him talk to a school counselor as I was reported to CPS in a similar situation. To add insult to injury, the counselor was pretty useless for the problem she was supposed to solve.
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Ie. don’t let your child tell anyone you beat them, because no one will help you whip them into shape. I was hoping the counselor would help me best my child into submission, but they would only help me with parenting skills I didn’t want to apply.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No, I would not have let him miss the bus. Obviously, not your best parenting moment, but hang in there. Tomorrow is another day. When I make parenting mistakes, I own up to it with my kids at the end of the day, and they are forgiving. But, I do tell them *why* I was so upset, and they usually apologize if they did wrong, and own up to it.
I think you were in a tough spot. How do you make a child get on the bus if the child physically refuses to budge? I have seen parents allow their kids to not take the bus, and instead the parent will drive them to school. IMO, that's just giving in to your kid's tantrum.
They walk to school, with the parent following in the car, to be sure they’re safe. Parent signs them in, and they take whatever consequences are for being late, including a possible zero on the test, if they missed it.
And if they refuse to leave the house like in OP's kid's case?
I knew someone whose 12 year old refused to leave the house to go to school.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No, I would not have let him miss the bus. Obviously, not your best parenting moment, but hang in there. Tomorrow is another day. When I make parenting mistakes, I own up to it with my kids at the end of the day, and they are forgiving. But, I do tell them *why* I was so upset, and they usually apologize if they did wrong, and own up to it.
I think you were in a tough spot. How do you make a child get on the bus if the child physically refuses to budge? I have seen parents allow their kids to not take the bus, and instead the parent will drive them to school. IMO, that's just giving in to your kid's tantrum.
They walk to school, with the parent following in the car, to be sure they’re safe. Parent signs them in, and they take whatever consequences are for being late, including a possible zero on the test, if they missed it.
And if they refuse to leave the house like in OP's kid's case?
I knew someone whose 12 year old refused to leave the house to go to school.