Many is the day I wish I had stuck to raising cats.
Me too Mark!
Seriously, I love my two girls to death but when I think of what my oldest one use to put me through...
Both my girls went to a strict private Catholic Elementary school. And I can't tell you how many times the Principal, (a Nun) had to call my house over the years to complain about one thing or another that my oldest daughter did. Then in the 8th grade, after being there since Pre-K, the Principal calls us to meet with her at her office and "suggests" that we should take our daughter out of that school!! I nearly died! Here it was her last year of Grammar school, which was also Confirmation year, and in the middle of November and Im suppose to find her another school to go to!!
Well thank God after searching around some we finally found another good Catholic school that was fairly close to us. And you know what, she did wonderful there!! The teachers
and Principal praised her and loved her spunkiness and told us that she was no problem at all for them. (when we told them what school she had recently come from, they kind of rolled their eyes)
Needless to say, she graduated 8th grade with honors, and went on to excel beautifully in High school, oh, and yes she did make her Confirmation in her 8th grade class with the new school.
Now she's in college and also works as a Lifeguard for the summer.
Now, my youngest daughter on the other hand loved the school and I never had a problem with her in that school at all, she had lots of friends and believe it or not the Principal
actually liked her! (she didn't like too many people)
Its funny because just the other day my older daughter and I were talking about the first school and she told me just how much she
hated that school. When I think back I realize I probably should have taken her out of there years ago since she was so unhappy there. I could have saved her, myself and that Nun years of misery!!
Anyway, Deb,sometimes certain things work well with one child while it just doesn't quite click too good with the other one. At least your daughter is willing to go for her GED so that's a good sign.
Sometimes I wish that Parenting came with intructions just like everything else does but I suppose it does come with lessons of some sort, life lessons that is, which of course is far from easy.
Mark, don't feel to bad, one of my sisters
finally got her act together about 6 years ago, when she was 40 years old!!!! Something we all thought would never happen, but thankfully that it did. I can't get over the change in her, so there's hope for everyone out there.
Hope everyone's problems turn out okay.
Cassandra