When Lydia and Josh first got here, they both wanted to start school so badly. We made arrangements for them to go to school even thought they could not speak English yet. Lydia was so excited to start. She wanted to wear a little red Christmas dress. How to explain to her that it was September, warm out, and that no one would understand her showing up in a Christmas dress in 3rd grade. OHHHHH the tears, OHHHHH the crying and OHHHHHH the hollering. I tried to calm her down, and rocked her in a chair for hours. She got herself so up in a tizzy that she decided to bite me. I frantically tried to get her to let go, but she was clamped on tight. The only way to stop her was to fight fire with fire....I bit her back. She was horrified. But, she calmed down and went to sleep and the next day, she wore a pretty fall dress to school. I hid that Christmas outfit and forgot where I hid it. By the time I found it, she had outgrown it (size and attitude.)
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