Disciplining The Girls

The girls are continuing to push their boundaries.

CA had to send J to the corner just last week, whereupon she had a meltdown and started to wail in that pitiful way. Every morning, she resists getting dressed, and I have to come up with new and creative ways to distract her or put her in a sufficiently happy state so she will not fight me.

Beth tests me every other day too.

Can't get up in the morning. Won't go to bed on time. Has no sense of urgency. Won't put down her book for ANYTHING. Daydreams when she's supposed to do her homework or her daily ablutions. She goes to the bathroom and stares into the mirror (when she's supposed to brush her teeth etc) until I come along to see what's going on.

Whereupon I promptly explode and start to nag, threaten and do all those things that come instinctively from my own childhood experiences and which I'd promised myself never to inflict on my own children....