If you keep up with this sluggish blog you might remember my last post about our fabulously, fantastic weekend in Winter Park. So much about that weekend was amazing but there was a fraction of it that was absolutely rotten! I could go on and on about the great memories we made but it would take only a second to explain what was the sour part.
This leads me to the point of this post. That weekend pushed Todd and I to our parenting limit. At one point during that weekend I seriously questioned if I was properly hired to raise our three vibrant blessings. Surely God overestimated me and my abilities. I truly felt that all my efforts of the past 7.5 years were for not. Not a single thing I had taught my children worked or presented itself that last night. Okay, maybe the lesson on how to dress themselves properly but it ended there. Manners, respect, boundaries, all of it out the window!
Upon returning to town I quickly made an appointment with one of the popular family counselors in our area. Today was my first visit. She diagnosed the problem in about 2.2 minutes and spent the rest of our visit giving me a plethora of ideas on how to work with our strong willed child a.k.a. Traeton Burmeister.
One piece of advice she had was to talk to everyone I could about their strong willed child and what tricks have worked for them. So, if you have any experience with a strong willed child or are one yourself will you please reply to this post with a trick or two or ten about what has worked for you. She said the longer list I can compile the better because as we all know things only work with these children a day or two before they've mastered it and moved on to the next challenge.
Deepest thanks from this mama who has made it 'over a few mountains but is still IN the woods'.
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