Mean Girl

1:17am Thursday, November 16, 2017 I'm starting this blog to vent my frustrations with my daughter Bailey; without reacting to her.  So...here goes! Bailey is awesome most of the time; however, there's this small percentage of her life where she's not so nice.  I keep thinking it's because she's a senior in high school and she's starting the natural pull away from her family routine but she has actually been mean for a few years.  She was mean to Sammy the last year or two before Sammy graduated from high school and now Sammy's on a mission and she has plenty of mean for Mike, me and the rest of our kids! Yesterday morning I had a bad reaction to Bailey's "meanness" and I decided after that it was going to be the last time I would react to Bailey's nonsense, instead of being what Jack calls a "nuclear over-reactor"! The problem with my reacting to her meanness is that when I react and, especially over-react, then the focus...