[quote=captainzip90] " I don't belong in this family." She alsways says this when she is having a fit about being disciplined. How long will she use this trump card? [quote]
Probably for a while, but then again my bios have used that line also! Just reassure her when she does use this that she really does belong -- which it sounds like you are already doing.
Another comment about language -- this one is one my husband will never live down. I had practiced helpful phrases before our daughter came home and a lot of my high school spanish came back. But he did not practice and never had spanish so he relied a lot on me and using gestures. One night he came into the other room so proud because he had "understood" her. She had only been home a few weeks and he said, "Elizabeth told me she wants to go to Montana." I thought a minute. She did not even understand that we lived in Oklahoma so HOW could she know Montana? So I asked, "did she say manzana?" "YUP, that's it!" he says. I tell him to go give her an apple. We still laugh about it!
