Perspective.

So I find myself really in the thick of parenting dilemmas more every day.  Of course, it's mostly because I have a 13 y/o daughter (UGH) and I have an (almost) 8 y/o son with a ridiculous combination of ADHD and APD... a child who can't sit still and whose brain is delayed in understanding you when you tell him to sit down.

In today's case, I told him about 30 times during the 5 minute wait in the pediatrician's office today.  I was really getting frustrated until the woman came in with her four children who literally ran through the front door and ran across the waiting room and finished off by running in circles around the children's coloring table. I was honestly concerned that when the nurse came out to call us back, that I wouldn't hear her. The interesting part here, is that when those other kids came in acting like that, my son immediately came over sat down next to me and waited quietly until we were called back. He still fidgeted and didn't sit still, but it was as though seeing other children behave that way made him realize how he was behaving.

I should have asked that mother to let me know her appointments in the future so that I could coordinate mine with hers.