I had hoped

As the few (2) of you who check this blog regularly may have noticed I have not blogged in a few days. There are two reasons for this. Health problems and nothing much to blog about. Yes, such is the exciting life in the Bacon household. However, today I do have something to blog about. Mike & I have been struggling for months with our daughter Sandy. Sandy is a fifteen year old walking hormone with anger issues. She has no problem showing respect to her teachers and other adults around her. In fact they can't help but sing her praises. But when she is around us, well, let's just say that she is less then exemplary. A few months ago I read in "Dear Abby" about a lady who was having problems with her teenage daughter and someone responded on how she would use writing assignments to garner respect. That caused a light bulb to go off. Sandy absolutely hates to write, especially if she has to do this freehand. So I came up with the idea to have Sandy write one page (front & back) of "I will/will not"....... (fill in the blank). If she does the same thing again, then she will be assigned two pages and it will be raised exponentially there after. She has had a few assignments to write but when she had gone a few weeks without any writing assignments, I thought I had hit on a method that would keep her in-line and keep peace in the house. Then we had a major melt down this morning. She "forgot" to take her pills this morning and she got snippy with us and it went downhill rapidly from there. I won't go into the gruesome details, but suffice it to say by the time we realized that Sandy had not taken her pills she had amassed over 100 pages of writing.