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We’re home, back from a trip to see Kim-14yr.  Wouldn’t it be great for me to report how well it went?  Yeah, well. Maybe one day.  (Maybe one day my few references to her won’t be linked to posts that tout the Total Transformation! There’s a good goal. )Well.  It didn’t go well.  It was excruciating. A three-part exercise in cruelty, teenager style.   One day it will be different. On  the night of part one of this exercise, Mike and the boys and I went to dinner. It was late, and we were tired and emotionally drained.  Caden-4yr turns to me and matter-of-factly says, “I have twinkle behind my eyeballs.”  Note: In our family, “twinkle” translates directly to “urine.”  Yeah. It really does.  I don’t remember exactly why, but it started with my mother – at some point in time after my sister and i were grown and before potty training Kim-14yr.   It thoroughly complicates the comprehension of ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.’So when Caden-4yr states that he has twinkle behind his eyeballs, I start to think that perhaps he really has to go potty.  No.  ”Mommy, I really do!  Someone told me that a yong time ago!”   (Caden-4yr does not often pronounce the letter ‘l.’)  ”Well.  Ew!  No.  Eyes are wet – you’re right, but it isn’t twinkle!”Caden-4yr gets visibly frustrated, and I notice Mike across the table laughing at us.  Exhausted, I mentally search for how to explain to a four year old what ‘eye liquid’ is.  Saline?  No.  That comes in bottles.  Um…. tears?  No. Then he’ll think he’s always about to cry…Mike stops laughing long enough to explain that Caden-4yr has clearly misunderstood the phrase “a twinkle in your eye.”  Oh.   And that would be my fault, because I always thought I’d be one of those mothers who used the correct terminology, rather than cutesy-talk.  But somehow, it just didn’t happen.  ”Twinkle” seemed so harmless.  But you know what happens when you use the word twinkle?  Then the boys deduce that they have a Twinkle Spot!   And that would be why Caden-4yr was overheard in a crowded food court last week yelling, “WHOAH!  I NEED TO POTTY!  THAT BIG DRINK WENT STRAAAAAAAAAAAIGHT TO MY TWINKLE SPOT!”     

If all of you just got a thousand notifications of new posts from me, um.  Sorry.  I needed to update the links in every post that mentioned Total Transformation and that kinda took awhile.  Who knew there were so many?  Anyway. I think I’m done now.

Have you done that BSE yet?

Today I heard from Elisabeth Wilkins with the Empowering Parents newsletter, which I actually really love and have been meaning to give it some free press here for awhile now. It’s SO good because it’s the same fantastic people who created the Total Transformation Program that you’re always hearing about on the radio. Sl, here is my official endorsement. Sign up for that free email newsletter if you want and I bet you’ll like it as much as I do. She mentions another program that is new and I haven’t tried it personally, but i know most of you who write me have ADHD type concerns and will be very interested.

(Below are Elisabeth’s comments)

Hi everyone. I wanted to introduce myself to your readers: I am the editor of EmpoweringParents.com, the (free) newsletter published by Legacy Parenting. Empowering Parents is a magazine for people who parent. Legacy Parenting is also the creator of the Total Transformation that you are talking about. (I’m also a mom of a 5 year old, and I use the Total Transformation Program on a daily basis with my son and love it! )

Holy Mama, thanks for sharing about your daughter. It seems she’s been at the treatment center for about a year now…I hope she’s making progress, and that your family is finding some peace.

I also wanted to mention to the parents of kids with ADHD…the Total Focus Program (also by Legacy Parenting) deals specifically with that issue, and works for both boys and girls. I haven’t used it myself, but you can go onto the site and see what you think: www.trytotalfocus.com. It’s a program created by Dr. Bob Myers, the father of a boy with ADHD. Many parents have told me that it truly works. Good luck, and God speed to all of you.

There is a hole in the fence. A big gaping hole, where an Ethan-7yr sized child strangely decided to RAM his bike repeatedly. He has no explanation. He does have remorse, and that’s something. Later I was wondering what could have possibly caused this unexplained act of destruction. I had an uh oh sinking sort of feeling in my stomach, then quickly dismissed it. There is just no way that it could be related to the car ride home from school, just before the fence ramming session. During that car ride, I might have been singing Styx’s “Babe” in an especially obnoxious manner that the children found offensive. Followed by Linda Ronstadt’s “A Long Long Time” which of course required shaky voice, near meltdown type drama. Then my personal corny favorite, “Please Don’t Look So Pretty” by Dwight Yoakum. Well. I really don’t think that had anything to do with it.

(For the 250-300 of you who show up every day not because you have any clue who I am, but just because you are interested in James Lehman’s Total Transformation program, why don’t you stay? Go ahead. Click here, then add a bookmark. There are hundreds of googlers just like you who came here today – and every other day – for the same reason – so you’re in good company. )