Kooky stories are what the attachment and trauma center calls stories that make no sense.  Things that are OBVIOUSLY lies and just keep getting bigger.

Today when I checked Younger Boy's assignment notebook it said he didn't have his rough draft timeline done.

This is the same timeline that was worked on last week and again on Saturday morning.  Now it is missing.

When I asked Younger Boy about it I got a kooky story.  It started with him not being in the room when the assignment was being made so he didn't know there was a rough draft due.  When I told him he knew on Friday a rough draft was due and we had worked on it Saturday morning and he TOLD ME it was due on Monday.

He said he had asked "a kid" that morning when it was due and they told him Friday so he decided to leave it in his book bag.  Never mind the book bag was at school and in his locker with the timeline in it.

He is insisting on telling me it is due on Friday.  More kooky stories were given as evidence the first kooky story was a possibility.  I finally had to ask him to stop talking about the timeline assignment, because it was really getting silly.

Survival stories...I get it.  Doesn't make them less frustrating or absurd.  Doesn't make the teachers at school understand.  What they understand is the homework didn't get done.

Aargh...we are only in week two of school.

Prayers we can get thinking on track for a better school year.