Maddie loves to be silly.

As much as I love sharing the Happy Monday videos, I have never wanted to sugarcoat the struggles that we have with Maddie.

As much as she loves school, she has gone through some rough stretches every year with outbursts. They usually manifest themselves because of things she doesn’t like doing causing her poor decisions. For example, currently she has been frustrated about going down to the music class because they are working on Veterans Day songs, which she doesn’t like singing. Now let me state that this has nothing against Veterans, she is not the Hanoi Jane of her grade school, she doesn’t like the tunes. She has no desire to burn her training bra, she just would rather sing It’s a Beautiful Day versus Thank You Soldiers. 

Overall, though, she has had a good year, with smiley faces ruling her behavioral chart. Yesterday things changed. It started off badly with a fire drill, which I’m guessing is as painful to her ears as the songs of Gloria Estefan are to mine. She had been up later the night before because of her Special Olympics swimming, so she was tired, as well. There were other factors too, but she still knows it’s unacceptable for her to behave this way, as you can tell from her video interrogation below.