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Topic	Almost 5 months foster-adopting 3 kids. Irresponsible parents piss me off.
Zanzenburger 11/10/17 11:31:39 AM #59:	BlazinBlue88 posted... Love seeing your adoption update topics pop up Zanzenburger. Glad to hear everything is going so well. Where are you getting your parenting ideas from? The walking in lines, strict morning bedroom routines, etc. Has becoming a parent affected you or your wife's jobs negatively? Honestly, a lot of it came from my own childhood. I lived a relatively strict childhood and went to a private Catholic school with angry nuns. They had every child under full control from the moment they arrived to the moment they left. I just took and adapted some of their policies. The rest was really just trial and error on my part. I look at their behavior patterns and try to determine the trigger for their behavior. Remove the trigger, remove the behavior. Their trigger seems to be lack of structure or direction. If left with no instruction, they go crazy. But if they are given one specific task to do, they are pretty good at focusing on the task and listen. It did at first, if only because we'd get calls from the school and daycare sending the girls home for bad behavior. We had to take off work a lot for that and the various medical visits (kids are like always sick yo). But our bosses understood what we were going through. It's settled down since then though and I think we have a good flow going. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. <cite>Zanzenburger posted [p:890127231] in Almost 5 m... [t:75965842]...</cite> <quote><cite>BlazinBlue88 posted...</cite> <quote>Love seeing your adoption update topics pop up Zanzenburger. Glad to hear everything is going so well. Where are you getting your parenting ideas from? The walking in lines, strict morning bedroom routines, etc. Has becoming a parent affected you or your wife's jobs negatively?</quote> Honestly, a lot of it came from my own childhood. I lived a relatively strict childhood and went to a private Catholic school with angry nuns. They had every child under full control from the moment they arrived to the moment they left. I just took and adapted some of their policies. The rest was really just trial and error on my part. I look at their behavior patterns and try to determine the trigger for their behavior. Remove the trigger, remove the behavior. Their trigger seems to be lack of structure or direction. If left with no instruction, they go crazy. But if they are given one specific task to do, they are pretty good at focusing on the task and listen. It did at first, if only because we'd get calls from the school and daycare sending the girls home for bad behavior. We had to take off work a lot for that and the various medical visits (kids are like always sick yo). But our bosses understood what we were going through. It's settled down since then though and I think we have a good flow going. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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