My Beautiful Boy

This afternoon I am attending a parenting course called ‘Who’s In Charge’.  Coreys school is running this course which goes for five weeks and is aimed for parents that have children that are violent.

I was quite happy when I saw they were offering this course and had my name down for it straight away.  Today is the first session so it will be interesting to see what they offer or suggest or if this course can help at all.  It would be good if Derek had been able to go to it also as it can be quite difficult if I decide to change things around here and he doesn’t change also.  We need to be in agreeance (is that a word) with our parenting methods and that bit can be quite frustrating.

Corey is also going to be attending a course called ‘Friends for Life’ which is a worldwide course and the counsellor at our school did some training to be qualified to run the course.  This course is aimed at kids with anxiety and even signs of depression.  It was suppose to start last week but didn’t for some reason, so I’m not sure if he starts that tomorrow or not.

I still haven’t really started on the ‘Out of Control Child’ course – I know I’m slack and I always do this.  However, things have just been so busy around here lately with kids sports and then last week they all came down with the cold and I had Lachlan home all week sick, Ben stayed home for a day, Corey missed three days last week, although only one of them from being sick!

This week they have very nicely shared their cold with me and I’ve been feeling terrible all week.  Corey and Lachlan had swimming at school this week too and I was a bit hesitant to send Lachlan to swimming worrying that he would get his cold back since he had only just gotten over it and sure enough this morning he woke up with the sore throat and coughing again.  I’ve kept him home today but hopefully  he’ll be ok to go back tomorrow.  Tomorrow is the last day of swimming and they get to swing on a ‘Tarzan’ rope and he is really looking forward to that so I think I would struggle to get him to stay home tomorrow.

Mind you it doesn’t help me attending this course this afternoon when I have to take Lachlan with me, hopefully he will sit quietly and draw.

I’ll give an update on how this course goes and anything else that is happening.  Sorry I haven’t been updating much lately, it just seems that I always just complain about the same sort of things so I just haven’t worried about it so much.