Parent's Report
Hello Professor Scheer,
This is emotional Michele from the US. It is with my deepest gratitude that I thank you for being the clinician, mother and pioneer that you are. I must admit when I first met you it seemed that you were a bit disconnected. Now I realize that this is how you must be to help pull ourselves up by our boot straps when we need it the most. Afterall, if we can't count on you to be the strong voice of reason who is there? We have to have a strong backbone to rely upon because we are being challenged on every level that we can imagine. In the course of 3 weeks we are asked to realize that we have to re-learn our parenting skills and change our notions about what battles to fight. In the end, what I believe that I have learned is that eating, if treated by the parents properly does not have to be one of the battles that we fight. Parents need to understand that children will eat when they have to. If not it becomes a source of control that they try to hold over us. We look forward to going home and applying the tough love principles here with regards to feeding and every situation at home. I also realize that love means providing boundaries and guidelines and not just giving in. In the end, if you are not spending your energy trying to discpline your child there is much more time to enjoy them. Although I admit that the process is not going to be easy. We do not have any scheduled therapy tomorrow and we have hoped to spend the day as a family on our own doing some Christmas shopping. I looked for you after play picinic but did not see you. Alex was weighed just before we left so we will be able to track her progress on Thursday. I wanted to let you know.
Much Love, respect and the highest regards. Michele