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DualvansMommy
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Next time she throws a fit like that over school work. Just don’t engage, just let it go and tell her she’s done for the day. All kids need a day or few days to just let go and not think or engage about school work, just like adults do. This new normal is hard and doubly hard on anyone with additional underlying needs. My youngest is in kindergarten, and there have been a day and more of him just melting down. When that happens, it’s over in that moment. Dh was like no he needs to continue etc and I explained to him on the importance of good mental health, which battle to pick & focus and this social sciences or writing portion *is* NOT the battle to go for.
Ordinarily, I would agree, and have tried this before.
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And I’m with you on the dog front, lastly! You will likely be the one to do all the work, stand firm. It’s tempting for your DH and DD, so I get it. Few people, i know are adopting puppies/dogs since everyone is home now! I volunteer at my town animal shelter, and we’re predicting a good percentage of puppies and dogs will be returned to shelters in 6-18 months from now, when people are bored with them, find too much work or back to resuming their insane busy lives without a dog.
I've been thinking about that, too - that people who adopted dogs now will return them in the next year or so after things go back to "normal" (whatever that might look like) and shelters will have different problems.