SOMEDAYS!!! Do any of you ever feel that way?!?
Man, has my son been pushing it lately.
I had a message on my machine last Thursday after getting out of the shower letting me know my son had quite the morning and had been sitting with his teacher and principal trying to get him to come back down and centered. It had gotten so bad that they were contemplating evacuating the classroom. She also advised me that she had indicated his use of video games and lego would be non exsistant. She wanted me to know so I could back that up at home.
I my son's teacher back on her cell phone (I'm grateful to have the kind of relationship with her) only to find out my son was sitting inside at the very moment on his recess working on questions he was suppose to have done that morning. Not only did I assure her I would back her up, but i also asked if i could speak to my little culprit.
My son greeted me on the phone as though he was having the best day ever and let me know everything is just fine now. I let hiim know that even if it was fine now, it wasn't earlier and because of that he had lost use of his DS, the X Box and all his Lego. I continued to let him know that if his afternoon was anything like his morning he could kiss all things important to him good bye for the rest of the weekend. If I got a good report, he got everything back the next day. I got a text from his teacher not long after our phone conversation letting me know she had never seen a child complete his work so quickly and head out to recess. Funny how that happens, eh?
Lucky for him, the report was good Thursday after school. Before he hopped on the bus Friday morning, the same scenario was laid out for him. If I heard anything bad about his day - poof bye, bye all things important! Report came back well, Friday was a good day!
This week has been a nightmare. It might be because my husband is on afternoons this week and I have the kids by myself at night, but man is this kid pushing!
Homework. The last week he has to write is carnet de lecture. Basically 5-6 sentances in a book report format on the book the kids select from their library. He got one sentance down before he decided he had nothing else to say about the book. It was borning, he already knew everything, it was too hard, couldn't find his pencil etc etc. His attitude to boot, landed him in a brief time out.
Once he (and I) cooled down and decided that yelling was getting us no where, we opted to get one of the french books he had here and use that. Smooth sailing. Two sentances down, good to go!
This morning the attitude was wide open. I nicely said excuse me countless time to ensure he knew I didn't like the tone of his voice, or his need to whine at every given situation.
As I write this tonight, I have a very unhappy little boy who once again inisists that this book now too is boring and he has nothing to write. For the last 90 mins, there has been not much more communicated then *Do your sentances* on my part and then the above list of excuses on his part.
Now that I've taken away the DS - suddenly the book isn't so borning anymore! Two sentances are presently being put on paper. Again, funny how that works!
