Archived Homeschool Blog - Strong Willed Child 2014
I want to take a moment to encourage all of you moms who are raising a strong-willed child (or two). This is MY Xander. She is my first child…the daughter I desperately hoped for. Everything about her beginnings was easy. Easy pregnancy. Easy labor - though, long. EASY baby – she slept 5 hours straight the first night we brought her home. And then, she became a toddler. Oh dear. What a toddler! Intense. Passionate. One friend described her, “Xander just LOVES life.” Busy. Active. Hyper. Within 5 seconds of her 3-year-old appointment, her doctor asked me if I’d ever considered ADHD (but that whole story is for another day). Let’s just say I have a number of living confirmations that she was more than a handful. I was in over my head. I was afraid. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was frustrated...often...and I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO RAISE THIS CHILD! ...