Mgt/230: Decision Making

Decision Making

Crystal Hardin

MGT/230

September 21, 2015

University of Phoenix

Decision-Making

According to Oxford Dictionaries (2015), Decision-making is the action or process of making decisions, especially important ones. When one makes a decision they attempt to make the best choice for the situation at hand. To make a good decision one should look at both the positives and negatives of all options in addition to take into reflection any alternatives there may be. A good decision is the conclusion of the best option for that particular issue.

It was almost two years ago that I had to make the choice to let my daughter go live with her dad in Fayetteville, AR or to keep her with me in Gravette.  Had I made a gut decision and not thought things out I would have made the choice based on what I wanted and only that, not looking at the good and bad of the whole situation.  My husband and I had been divorced about 6 years and our daughter was 8, and we had joint custody of Cadence. Marshall my ex lives in Fayetteville about a 45 minute drive from Gravette and Cadence had been asking me to let her go stay with her dad. I remember when she told me “Mom you have had 8 years with me, it’s daddy’s turn to spend time with me.”

 After the initial shock of the situation wore off it took me another almost year to come to my decision. Cadence had been in Gravette schools since she started school and was going into 4th grade when I decided that I would let her move to her dads.  It was a hard choice and one that I thought that I would regret but here it is she is in her 5th grade year now and doing amazing. Reflecting back I can see that I made the right choice.

Weighing out the good and bad of the situation helped me see that her saying with me was not working out for the best for her. At my house she was very disrespectful, rude and was taking medication for ADHD. At her father’s she did not take medication and is a lot less disrespectful. If Cadence would have stayed with me our relationship would have taken a hit because of her disrespect towards me.  Also her staying with me would teach my youngest that it is ok to be disrespectful and further more issues. All children will have some disrespect but to the point she threw a fit and pushed over a kitchen chair almost hitting her baby sister that is an unhealthily amount.  Before settling on my final choice I had tried counseling for Cadence as well as the medication for her ADHD. I learned different techniques to deal with her fits when she had them and how to redirect her disrespect. However even with the alternatives that I tried the situation was still not what any mother would want her child to live with.