Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) Support Group

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures that goes beyond the bounds of normal childhood behavior. When a child cannot seem to control his anger or frustration, even over what seems to be trivial or simple to others, the child will often react in violent or negative ways to his own...

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what a morning

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my deal daughter was in one of her moods,. I think I heard the word stupid a million times this morning, she did not sleep well lastnight we had a storm go through and she was very anxious about that, she does that, there can be a tornadoe in the next state and she is worried it will come here,, she is not the niciest person in the morning anyway and so we got a double dose this morning, i have learned though notto take the bait, and I think that has been a frustration for her, I just do not argue with her, not always I have my moments, but Iam getting better, it is does get tiresome though day in day out she argues about it all, hopefully her mood will improve through the day, the weather is changing though and that does not help,. just another day,, we will get through it,, we have a long weekend ahead of us,, those are our rough periods, hopefully we can get through with minor issues,,
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Kudos to you for not taking her bait. I know that is VERY hard. It would probably be a good idea to stop letting her watch the news. Maybe put a small fan in her room for white noise so she'll maybe sleep better.

Are the weekends harder because they're less structured than school days? Maybe put her on a schedule?

Just remember...this too shall pass. That's my mantra. :~) I sing "Amazing Grace" to myself ALOT too.

Hugs,
SavvysMom
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we do not watch the news. she was at youth group and the teacher said something about the bad weather, we try to stay on a schedule for the weekend, sometimes it is hard, she just get's bored and she does not like to go places because that might cut into her time, and we do a lot of family things on the weekends that is when my husband is home, but even it is something that is going to be a lot of fun, she has a meltdown, once we are there she has fun,. she will not admit it, she does better if she is kept busy with fun things, cleaning her room or anything like that she has a fit, but before the fun she has to do her chores.. it is just who she is,, we go to church and she likes that. sometimes we do not always get out the door stressfree. but once we are there she is very calm and enjoys it, I take he rone day at time, one minute at a time, thats all I can do,
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