I hear you...I was very independant as a kid, too. I'd rather be alone than be grouped with kids I didn't like. My sister, though, HAD to belong to a group, any group, to feel loved and I think Char's father was the same way. Char has always had friends, many of them, but this year the kind of children she's gravitated towards has changed drastically. It has me really worried, because those kids really distract her and it's obvious that they are influencing her. When all her friends were GT kids, having them over here was a slice of sunshine because you didn't even have to ask them to go do the homework...they'd just do it. These poor kids though...they're bored and rudderless and all they want to do is hang out and goof off, it seems.
Like I was telling Shveta, I think her relationship with her father is a major part of the problem. Since he lost that custody thing he's been taking out his frustration on her, and been really mean at times, and that upsets her. There's only so much I can do or say to him (if he was the kind of person who could listen to reason, we might actually still be together), so I'm pretty helpless in that respect. So counseling is looking like my best bet. I have to get to the bottom of this before high school happens...it'll be too late by then.
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Date: 2006-12-24 01:00 am (UTC)Like I was telling Shveta, I think her relationship with her father is a major part of the problem. Since he lost that custody thing he's been taking out his frustration on her, and been really mean at times, and that upsets her. There's only so much I can do or say to him (if he was the kind of person who could listen to reason, we might actually still be together), so I'm pretty helpless in that respect. So counseling is looking like my best bet. I have to get to the bottom of this before high school happens...it'll be too late by then.