11-10-2009 - Super exhausted

My mood while writing this blog: Ok

I survived the hectict week. OMG, this was the most intense week I have ever had in this whole year. But I survived. Only that Saturday was the only day I felt like I could have done more. But hey I have 5 more weeks of prepping the class to be better. The worst part is that I had alot last session for teh Mommy and Me class and so many decided not to come back. Only becasue some parents give up to easy on there child because they cry. I think hey, lets try to encourage them that this is fun, gymnastics is fun, but I think also some parents don't want to join in on the fun by acting like a child themselves. They feel embaressed when i tell them okay it's time to do the hokey pokey and parents please join in. It's like I am telling them take a gun and shoot yourself. The look on some of there faces. Ugh, I wish some can just support there child and know they are there for them, if they cry, show them that it's okay, jump on the trampoline with them, hold them while you walk across the beam. come onn let go! I always had fun before I even starting teaching that class. J-dee and I enjoyed jumping on the trampoline together, we enjoyed singing and dancing, and learning different way to just have fun. This is the best moment of any parents and child life. Spending quality time with them.

Anyhow, I also had to vent over my Mothers Foster Child, Ana, she's been giving my parents a very hard time. She is 11 yrs old, but she is very fustrated in her life, and she likes to back talk, and give attitude when she doesn't have her way. Today she told my mom something that I literally did not except, and told my mom I am sorry but I have to jump in and give my 2 cents. She did not like it but I told her she needed to respect my mother becasue what she is doing for her is all out of love, it's not to get fustrated over little things. She gets so mad over anything and blames my mother. She never wants to take a bath, argues and throws things because she doesn't want too, and my mother discovered lately, she's been bathing in her underwear and bra????? Don't ask, I know my mom was furious, she told her the next time she baths in it she was going to monitor her in the bathroom while she baths. She did not like that. When she came to our house in August, she had bad acne due to bad hygenes, and if you see her today, her face is so clear, hair is silky, and looks really good. Worst of all she sometimes pees on herself because she holds the urine and doesn't want to go to the bathroom. So my mom, told her if she pees one more time, she will stay like that and she will call her friend over to show her what she done.LOL She hasn't done it since, mostly because my mom's been monitoring her. She also snickers at my mom everytime she is checking up on her, she told my mom that she has no right to check up on her when she is playing. Her snickers are just absolutely nasty at times. I sure told her that she needs to realize that this world is not safe and she should be glad that my mother is checking on her, she is doing her duties as a mother. I worry for my mom though, this child has been really stressful on her. My mom is very ill too so I worry about her stress level, and I have told Ana over and over again, that she is not an adult and she cannot do what she please. She tells me that she has no freedom, and I said Tough, you can't do what you please, first of course you are only 11, and you have to earn your respect and trust. She acts like she is an adult and told me she can do whatever she wants she owns her body. Lets just say I put her in her place when she told me that. She upset not just me but my parents and my oldest brother who is staying there for a few weeks. Yes we know her history, and she likes to push peoples buttons. I told my mom not to give up on her. This is her 3 foster home due to the same problems over there. But I did tell my mom, to stick with it, not to give up on her, this child really needs alot of love that was never brought to her. But this child really needs is more discepline in which she never recieved. Hopefully the next few months, she will soon realize we are there to help her and not be against her.

And on a different note, I still have a terrible 2 on my hands. She is getting worse though, I think I am going to have to toughen up a bit more with J-dee. She has been acting out in public alot and wanting to do her own things. She tells me No when I tell her to come here, she fights with me not to put on her clothes or pull ups. She fusses over every little thing. I just can't wait until she becomes alittle nicer.LOOL

Anyhow that is the scoop for me. Hope everyone had a great weekend.