There is no school today, and there is no work today! Which means that it's another pj day {well I did get my butt back in the gym after missing for two week! The gym roof caved in and it wasn't open and the next week I was sick!}. Man I seriously love those kinds of days, I consider them a huge blessing in our lives. It refills our cups and gives us energy to go back to work and school.. I love it!
Speaking of school. We're going through a period with A again.. If it's not one thing it's another and I do consider myself blessed to be her parent but sometimes I do have those moments of scratching my head at the things she does. Or for better lack of, does not do.
So far in the past 2 weeks she's "forgotten" her homework off and on. Now due to the nature of her and the fact that she doesn't normally lie, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and agree that she really did forget it. But.. With that being said, she doesn't follow through, follow directions, or read through things very well. Hence, her missing assignments that she always seems to be able to turn in late after speaking to her teacher... But that doesn't solve the problem at hand. She has homework and it's sitting in her messy desk at school. This weekend's homework she didn't know that she needed a certain part of something prior to tearing it out of her book {practice book pages that they tear out and can tear out}. She tried to tell me that she just didn't know. So I ask her if her teacher told her about them, nope. So that means in her haste she tore them out without reading the instructions. Then come to find out that Thursday she was told to write it in her planner and had she done this, taken the homework on Thursday would of seen that she needed to remember to bring the thing she needed home the next day. Therefore, she cannot do them because she forgot one of the parts she needed to complete it. Which means, late homework, yet again. And it means that she doesn't do her chore chart...
So I tell her standing there trying to remain calm that she cannot have the new computer games that are coming in the mail and I am "thinking" about not letting her spend the night at her best friends house yesterday. I know it seems harsh, but let me just share that this has been an off again on again issue for A. And she's going to middle school next year. It isn't the land of telling her teacher, cause she'll have many, that she didn't have it so could she turn it in late. It's all about getting an assignment and turning it in on time. I am trying to teach her this so that it forms into a habit of her being on top of bringing her homework home.
So I feel like a horrible parent, a harsh parent, and a heel too. If she only knew how I truly felt about homework at her age, she'd slam it into my face. And if she actually knew that I rarely did my homework that too would get thrown in my face some how, I am sure. And then there is the nature of whatever homework she has, that she'll not remember it and it won't matter in the daily life applications that she'll learn. But I don't dare tell her any of this, not one single word of it. No I have to stand there and be the parent that I only can, do the best that God want me to do and seek His guidance.
And that means no sleep over. Trust me it is hard. It was hard. I had to explain myself and my reasoning and then call her friends parent and tell her that A cannot come. Then we prayed, hugged and that was that.
It is very hard being a parent and I am sure you can relate. I am prayerful that she gets it.
So it was a no day all around both good and bad...
365 #19 thingy
these are the sneakers that I wear to the gym. I love them a lot and have had them for awhile now too. They are a good sneaker. It feels good to be back in the gym!Yes that is military carpet...
1 comments:
You are not a horrible parent, quite the contrary... hard as it may be, you are teaching lifelong lessons.
We go through the *forgetting( stuff with Jacey too...the most recent, resulted in a hoodie that *walked* off.
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