About my 15 year old daughter

I thought I started my girl out right, reading to her every night, sending her to preschool and pre-K at a private school and being very positive and involved but something just went very wrong.
Backstory I had originally wanted to homeschool her because of our poor school system so I sent her to kindergarten at the local public elementary school so she could get a solid baseline then I started homeschool at first grade. By the time we were half way through the year I new there was a problem when I could not get her to stay in one place for more than 5 mins. I know I’m not that imaginative but the curriculum was very specific so there wasn’t much room for straying off the schedule. and the dr agreed, diagnosing her with add. Unfortunately the meds didn’t set right with me making her into a sort of a zombie. I took her off and I thought I could just wing it without them, but by halfway through second grade I had to reenroll her into the public school. I just didn’t think I would ever finish the year and every lesson was a struggle of wills. I hated doing it but she seemed to be doing ok with second through fifth. It was middle school, when she began not wanting to go to school or do any homework. I would do everything to get her to do her work, but I couldn’t get her to read or do any homework and she barely eked her way through managing to pass sixth but failing 7th grade math. I got her tested and they said she had a math disability, but I think it is more than that. She refuses to do anything that a normal teen would be doing. This whole situation makes our home life very unhappy. I am constantly angry because she doesn’t want to do anything. I can’t get her to follow through with drs advice to exercise or take meds. I don’t know if she will graduate and I don’t know if she will ever even move out. I try taking her phone from her which is about the only leverage I have left in this fight for normalcy. But when I do that it ends up turning into a two day fiasco. I don’t know where I went wrong with her education and I certainly don’t know what I did to turn her into a blob. Thanks in advance for thoughts.

Submitted October 27, 2019 at 02:18PM by ansmithgie https://ift.tt/31PVkkh