It's interesting to actually see the video, even though I have read about this before.
Yeah, I remember reading about it too, and then they had it on a "This American Life" episode...
Here it is:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1204
You can listen to the episode there. I think you particularly might like to hear Act II Callaway.
When Amy fights with her mom, I call her a rhesus monkey cuddling up to the wire framed mommy.
I love This American Life.
Thanks, Tesla.
Yes, that episode made me count my blessings. My daughter could be a lot worse, even though she grabbed and pulled the tie of an unsuspecting ticket-taker in the theater where we were takng her to see the new kung fu panda movie this afternoon. We turned around and left before we even made it into the movie. She kept pleading for another chance, but she has to learn.
Yesterday, she grabbed and broke the eyeglasses of the substitute driver of the bus we both ride to her school. I took her pool away for a week for doing that and then she told me very nicely this morning that she was angry with me because she thought that was a too-harsh punishment since the pool is the only time she has fun and she even feels angry in the winter that she can't swim until summer.
I talked to her dad and we decided that she could do some specific chores instead (rather difficult for her--pick up her all toys in her bedroom and basement playroom and empty the dishwasher) and if she did them by herself this weekend and promised not to attack people and grab glasses again, then she could have her pool back. She emptied the dishwasher and started picking up her bedroom, but she did not finish that or even start in the playroom at all, so she does not get the pool back unless she does.
Given her behavior at the theater this afternoon, I'm thinking that losing her pool is not so harsh anyway, but I wanted to be responsive when she used her words so nicely to tell me that she was angry and she thought that the punishment was too harsh, because using her words as opposed to becoming physical has been very difficult for her.
