Elf Sternberg

Those are some excellent suggestions. I spoke to her today about if she understood the difference between "we're not upset because you called your mom, we're upset because you didn't call us." She didn't, so I explained it to her. I think she understands better that it's not her calling her mother, generically, that is the problem, but the "the parent who has physical custody is the one who you call first." Hopefully, that will work better.

I couldn't possibly have let her go on the bus without basically training her first...I know that she's taken the bus with me many times, but that just isn't enough to just say, "Okay, kid, here's the schedule, here's some money...go for it." And knowing that she has big problems about situations where the schedule is not in black and white before her, I needed her to really know what she was doing.

And thanks for the compliment. :)