First Day of School

Made it through the first day of school. Woohoo!! The morning was a little rough, my son and I are both not early morning people, so I have little paitents waking him up. Mainly because I will tell him it is time to get up several times, turn off his alarm clcok, ( it is the most annoyting alarm it sounds like a loud constant horn honking, makes me irratated to hear the noise) So after the 5the time of saying his name, I told him he either gets up and gets ready for school to chatch the bus on time or suffers the consequence.

I promised myself that I will not go through his power struggel play anymore, he is learning I mean business. When my son said, "Quit saying my name" I told him I will now that he has answered me, and also said again, get up and get ready now! He slowly got up and deceided to get ready. I was thankful because he was totaly ready by the time the bus got there.

Now tomorrow whole new chapter, all I know is that I am through arguing and he is going to follow the rules regardless wheather he wants to or not. I told him just because he has bipolar doesn't mean he isn't capable of following the rules, just like someone who has thyroide or allergies problems disorders do not give you a reason to not try and do what is expeceted, like picking up after yourself, controling anger, getting your own glass of water.

So basically coping skills for parents, don't take your child hurtful words to hart, ( they know it bothers you and that is why they say it) don't argue with your child, what you say goes if they want to argue tell them that they have 5 mins to argue and you will just sit and listen to just for those five mins, when the time is up they no longer are allowed to argue and what you told them to do before still stands.

Until tomorrow.