Posted by fallsfall on March 3, 2004, at 11:43:29
In reply to Re: Teenager late (AGAIN) for school » mair, posted by fallsfall on March 3, 2004, at 11:37:19
I had an extra (and badly needed) therapy session scheduled for 8:15. That meant that I needed to leave at 7:30. I usually drop her off at 7:32. I explained last night that I wanted to drop her off at 7:30 so I wouldn't be late. I reminded her when she went to bed. I told her twice this morning while she was not getting out of bed.
She got into the car at ... 7:30. (it takes 7 minutes to drive to school)
I started driving out of the neighborhood and told her to get her cell phone out and call her dad (He is a school bus driver). He was at the high school, needed to go to the middle school, but could pick her up and take her to school. So I dropped her by the side of the road where she needed to go one direction and I needed to go the other direction, and told her to walk down to where he would pick her up.
This felt moderately satisfying (and I was in time to be able to settle down before my session).
The session went much better, by the way. I think we are (finally) past the crisis and now we'll spend the next couple of months analyzing what happened.
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