Today was busy. Older Boy and I had family therapy with Therapist. This was the first of our new tries at family therapy. The meetings with all three of us were NOT working so we are going to do three with Older Boy and I and then one with Younger Boy and I. This is in hopes that we can get Older Boy to a point where he will be cooperative in therapy and we can actually all three work on things together.

Today we talked about having a reward system for desired behaviors. The four behaviors Older Boy is going to work on are:

1. Do not tell Younger Boy what to do (co-parenting).
2. Stop doing things when you are asked.
3. Do not have aggressive or violent behaviors.
4. Use your coping skills.

There will be a point system and associated rewards. I am hopeful this will help.

We plan to implement this with Younger Boy as well, but haven't had the behavior goal setting session yet.

Please pray this will help to tone down some of the behaviors we are currently experiencing.