October Update

Due to circumstances beyond my control, homeschool didn't happen. I still believe it would be best for Blondie, but for now I can't do it.

She is in fourth grade and doing okay, other than her behavior problems. She still misbehaves whenever I'm not around. Instant consequences are the only kind that work for her, and typically school consequences are put off until later.

Bubbles has improved a lot. She tells the truth more often than she lies, and she is really trying to please us. She is more like a regular kid now with regular kid problems.

Blondie is a daily battle, but she does it with a smile! I can't complain about either of their attitudes. Blondie is sneaky and lies and disobeys, but she's always happy. Or at least she pretends to be. We haven't had as much success with her, but she is older and has been through more trauma. I still hope that we will eventually get through to her, and I believe we will. It has been encouraging to see the changes in Bubbles, and it gives me hope that Blondie will eventually come around too, it will just take longer.

For now my biggest struggle is in coming up with creative ways to give her consequences that fit her crimes. Yesterday I bought her a see-through backpack because of her sneaking things to school. It backfired on me a little bit because she thought it was cool and she couldn't wait to put her stuff in it, even though I bought the ugliest color they had. I told her that she had to carry it for a week and then she could have back her pretty pink one.

More later.