Today I am totally at a loss. I’m having a hard time not laughing at the absurdity I find myself having to address tonight.
Yesterday I got a call from Older Boy that he had gotten detention from his 8th period teacher and he would miss the bus. Before I could ask any questions he hung up. I called the school back to find out what time detention is over and was told 4:30pm. I made arrangements to leave work early to go pick up Older Boy from detention. At 3:15pm I got a call from Older Boy telling me he got out of detention early and I needed to come get him. I couldn’t leave then so I had to have Foster Care Specialist go get him and take him to daycare. When I picked him up from daycare I asked him why he was in detention and he said because he asked another boy to stop talking to him. This seemed absurd to me so I told him that he could have a free pass if he told me why he really had detention. He stuck to his story. I told him I was calling the school today to find out, because I wanted to hear the teacher’s side of the story. He told me that was “bad parenting”…his newest phrase. I asked why he had gotten out of detention early and he told me because the detention teacher had to leave to take her daughter to the hospital.
When I called the school this morning I found out that he did not get detention yesterday. It took the school and I all day to figure out what he had done after school. Apparently he helped the soccer coach with student manager duties. Tonight I will have to address this. Why would he choose to tell me he is in trouble vs. asking if he could stay late and help the soccer coach?
Younger Boy has a new habit of doing his homework in the evening and then throwing it away before gets to school in the morning. Why go to the effort of doing it? I am considering dropping it off every morning for him or scanning it in and emailing it to the teacher. Again…I can’t help but ask myself why?
Last night was family counseling….I wish I never had to go to that again!! All I can do is laugh about what got accomplished there.
Pray I can get through to these boys and understand what is going on….pray I give them mercy and grace and also that I don’t lose my sanity!!
Yesterday I got a call from Older Boy that he had gotten detention from his 8th period teacher and he would miss the bus. Before I could ask any questions he hung up. I called the school back to find out what time detention is over and was told 4:30pm. I made arrangements to leave work early to go pick up Older Boy from detention. At 3:15pm I got a call from Older Boy telling me he got out of detention early and I needed to come get him. I couldn’t leave then so I had to have Foster Care Specialist go get him and take him to daycare. When I picked him up from daycare I asked him why he was in detention and he said because he asked another boy to stop talking to him. This seemed absurd to me so I told him that he could have a free pass if he told me why he really had detention. He stuck to his story. I told him I was calling the school today to find out, because I wanted to hear the teacher’s side of the story. He told me that was “bad parenting”…his newest phrase. I asked why he had gotten out of detention early and he told me because the detention teacher had to leave to take her daughter to the hospital.
When I called the school this morning I found out that he did not get detention yesterday. It took the school and I all day to figure out what he had done after school. Apparently he helped the soccer coach with student manager duties. Tonight I will have to address this. Why would he choose to tell me he is in trouble vs. asking if he could stay late and help the soccer coach?
Younger Boy has a new habit of doing his homework in the evening and then throwing it away before gets to school in the morning. Why go to the effort of doing it? I am considering dropping it off every morning for him or scanning it in and emailing it to the teacher. Again…I can’t help but ask myself why?
Last night was family counseling….I wish I never had to go to that again!! All I can do is laugh about what got accomplished there.
Pray I can get through to these boys and understand what is going on….pray I give them mercy and grace and also that I don’t lose my sanity!!
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