Parenthood Blues...

It's a real struggle trying to do this job. You do what you think is right and you find things working for you at home and then you find out it isn't working at school. You want to be able to send your kid out into the world and have them function the way they do when you are around... but they don't, not always, not with my kid.

I am at a loss. Other than attending school with him, I am not sure what I can do.

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Annemarie said…
That doesn't sound good. What happened? Send me an email if you'd rather not post the details...
5/08/2008 6:12 AM
Finster said…
It is just ongoing silliness and inappropriate behaviour in class. He can recite what he is supposed to do. You can talk to him about it and then he's doing it again. You ask him why and he says 'I don't know'. At home he is so improved that I don't get the school stuff.

Actually, though, yesterday he had an amazingly GREAT day. It is the inconsistency that is so frustrating.

There are many times when I am watching him in a setting where I am not the primary supervisor and I see him do things that I know, if they are not dealt with, the behaviour will escalate. Very often the supervisor sees these things but does nothing so the escalation happens and then we have a problem. The small starting behaviour are big enough to notice and I always wonder why they don't do anything... even when I have given them a heads-up about his behaviour. This is what I think is happening, becuase once he escalates it is hard to re-focus him. The best thing with him is to keep it small...

I am comforted by the knowledge that Son #2 will not have the same issues (I can tell already)... but I know that I will be dealing with these kinds of things with Son #1 for a long time and I don't want him to get turned off school because it is so coloured by all this stuff. With teacher-turn-over once a year it is going to be a challenge until his maturity develops or unless he can get to a point where he is getting himself on track.
5/08/2008 7:35 AM
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