When does school start again?

In way too long. I’m already missing classes, and ready to go back. I wonder why this is. I got really good grades this quarter with the exception of one class because the instructor hasn’t posted grades yet. I got 2 A-s and a B+. You should be proud of me. I did this while being a single parent.

In an attempt to get my child to sleep in her own room, I am letting her throw a fit in her bedroom, by herself. She is screaming for “Grandma’s bed” but it is becoming increasingly apparent to me that she can no longer sleep in my bed or my mother’s bed as she needs more structure. I already had the task of going through her room removing all of her “monsters” which were her large stuffed animals. She refused to take a nap in her own bed. This is the only thing that has become increasingly difficult as my mother has been working graveyard. My child refuses to sleep in her own bed. Her excuses crack me up: there are monsters, it’s too hot, I want another story, I don’t want Tinkerbell on my wall anymore (my sister would be proud that a rather large banner of Stewie is now taken off her wall, but it is now on mine). These excuses drive me up the wall. Now she’s resorted to kicking and banging on her door as I put one of those child door locks on her knob so she can’t get out of her room right now. This might seem cruel, but she is not in any immediate danger and I open her door as I go to sleep so that if she has a nightmare once she is asleep, she can come join me in my bed. She is fine. Just throwing a fit.

So now I must ask, HOW DO I GET HER TO STOP CRYING AND GO TO BED? It is really driving me nuts. I’m about to go outside and let her screams go unheard for a while. She has been at this for over a half an hour.

That is that. This is what I am presently dealing with.