Comments on: Choices & Consequences: Dubious at Best

By: One Pot Meal: Crab & Andouille Jambalaya | Sass & Veracity

One Pot Meal: Crab & Andouille Jambalaya | Sass & Veracity — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:21:43 +0000

[...] when the hunkster wasn’t going to be home until 8PM and my son, who is in the dungeon over some missing school assignments and banned from the computer, accepted my request to join me in making dinner. He actually [...]

By: mel from freak parad

mel from freak parad — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:46:35 +0000

Oh Kelly….Just keep reminding yourself you have a good kid there. A really good kid.
School is not always enjoyable and homework is usually especially un-enjoyable. It sounds like he is just asserting his independence. Y’know…I don’t feel like doing it, so I’m just not going to. We all do that as adults, so I’m not sure why we expect it not to exist in our kids. Heck, I could show you the list of things I am procrastinating about or just plain ignoring right at this very moment. Of course there are consequences….for us, as adults, there are natural consequences. Right now for the RT, you are imposing consequences. That is all you can do. He is in control of making his own choices, and for the most part, makes good ones. Keep on doing what you are doing. Remember, you’ve had many more years of learning how to make more good choices than bad. He’ll get there. When you get really frustrated with him…think about the last time you should have been getting something done, and didn’t. It may just give you the perspective you need to keep from poking your eye out with a spork. Ahhh, children. Never a dull moment.

By: earlene

earlene — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:37:25 +0000

This doesn’t sound like the RT that I know and love. What can you do. It was all so different when I had teenagers, or was it that I was different and you sank or swam? I was so lucky that mine didn’t sink. I am sure your will not sink.

By: Tempered Woman

Tempered Woman — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:20:08 +0000

“So yet again, I’ve just made noise. I’ve just been blathering for no reason.”
Gah! So you mean you can hear my screaming all the way around the country? Cause I’ve used these exact words so many times this past school year I’m thinking this is an echo…
My monkey is in 7th grade this year and I feel like if I hear the words “I don’t know” one more time I’m going to have to poke my eyes out in sheer frustration. She’s always been an A student but this year she just decided not to do some of her homework. OR even better (for slowly killing her mother) she does it but forgets to turn it in. ACK! Just kill me now cause I won’t be able to survive high school me thinks…

By: chefmom

chefmom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:32:44 +0000

So, what you’res saying, it’s only going to get worse for those with younger ones? Getting my 8yr old to do her homework, which like you said, is all review, is like pulling every. after. noon. AGH!! It does sound like he’s following in his Mom’s foot steps in one way….Dinner must have awesome!! And I am DROOLING over your oven.

By: loripea

loripea — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:14:19 +0000

The kids had progress reports on Friday. My one kid didn’t bring it home, said the teacher forgot to hand them out. They were the only class that didn’t get them. I’m too tired to care anymore. I wish I had been on the couch drinking beer and watching soaps so there would be a reason as to while she had no motivation in life.

By: meleah rebeccah

meleah rebeccah — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:09:05 +0000

Embarrasing as this is I am:

Your Vocabulary Score: C

Your vocabulary is average.
You’re not exactly a literature major, but no one’s going to accuse you of being illiterate!

I think I need to start reading my dictionary and thesaurus again

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:29:20 +0000

I got a B+

Now I have to figure which ones I got wrong!

By: kellypea

kellypea — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:44:14 +0000

Hey Tammy — your daughter’s furniture teacher probably realizes she has some talent and is pushing her. That’s usually the case. The kids see it as the teacher being mean to them or not liking them and you’re so right about your daughter’s response to that. I’ve seen it so many times. I would have LOVED that class. How cool is that? And I do a lot of sighing, too. Nope. Not an easy job. Not at all.

Hey Ben. I can hear you saying that to your mom. I swear I may have said the same thing. I KNOW my mother said it to my sister who used to have some pretty spectacular tantrums, telling her she’d pay some day, too. Life’s interesting like that, yanno?

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:47:46 +0000

I still remember when I was a teenager (so many years ago it seems now) and I did stuff (or decided not to do) for no apparent reason. And when my mom told me that I was going to pay double with my kids what I was doing to her, I decided not to have kids. I don’t like to torture myself. Haha.

xoxoxo