When your child has serious behavior issues and a psychologist from a team of health care professionals wants to talk to you it probably isn’t best to have that conversation while the child is in the same room, out-of-control, an hour and a half into the clinic visit.

Probably the mom is going to be distracted. She’s probably going to be annoyed when you talk about needing the support of a trained specialist even after you just said you are in discussions with a certain behaviorist that you are comfortable with love because you went through this 2 years ago with his support – you are just changing the program – but you are on a program again and it’s helping. Even if at this moment it might not look that way.

And when the mom says maybe there is a time to talk, you know, when your out-of-control child isn’t WITH YOU TWO FEET AWAY THROWING PAPER AT YOUR HEAD WHILE YOU ARE IGNORING THE BEHAVIOR AS DIRECTED BY THE PROGRAM, she probably didn’t mean for a clinical appointment with you as an acting counselor – she meant, maybe you can step outside the room, you know, like next time, and the mom could bring someone to watch said paper-throwing, out-of-control child.

And maybe, just maybe… the General of an attack on Operation Nix The Seriously Bad Behavior doesn’t want the enemy to hear the war plan.

Geez.