Sunday night arrives, eve before back to school, and Taylor is crying herself to sleep because she doesn't want to go already. Ugh... yet another part of her personality that makes things so different than her sister. While even though Plexus Slim has helped her, she does still have some struggles. Overall, she's improved by 60% from last year. I know each year she will improve it's just the matter of staying organized. Last night was partially my fault for not reviewing her work she brought home until after church, so she was tired and that's when she tends to get frustrated more easily. We all know how busy life can be, I really try to make things easier for her by planning her day, and organizing her tasks in efforts not to overwhelm her, but there are just those days...
My 19 year old, Alley never had these issues. She was your average A/B student but she was always on top of things. So having days like Taylor's is a struggle for me too; how should I respond? I would say 50% of the time I don't respond well, I may jump too soon at her and then later have to apologize, but there are a few times when I'm actually understanding of her and try to apply empathy to the situation. But where is the fine line of applying empathy and spoiling her? It's tough. I think my husband is less understanding and sometimes thinks I'm more on the spoiling side. We do pray about the situation together. I do pray he becomes more understanding. Prior to Plexus she would get so frustrated with herself that she'd actually make statements like, "I hate myself." "No one likes me." This started about age 6. Now, those statements are gone, but occasionally she does still say, "I'm so mean or rude." She really does struggle with her behavior so I do see this to be a true issue. I pray Plexus continues to decrease her struggle as well as her faith in Christ.
Next steps,
1) Increase her Plexus, I need to be more constant with her nightly ProBio5.
2) Get back to being more organized.
3) Find a way to encourage her weekly with school work. Any suggestions?? I used to let her get a game on her Kindle for good behavior each week, but that was just more of an incentive. We need something to celebrate each week's achievements or improvements in school work.
She also get's stressed when there is too much going on, for example, today she has school, after-school tutoring (for STAAR test- a whole different conversation), then softball practice. So she was dreading day 2 :/ I tell her things like," be sure to find the good in the day and share it with me later." I hope this encourages her to see those things.
Ugh...so tough, so different. Praying everyday!!
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