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How Much is Too Much Oversight?
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<blockquote data-quote="4sumrzn" data-source="post: 139045" data-attributes="member: 4133"><p><span style="color: darkslateblue">I'm getting something out of these replies myself. Thanks for posting this. We went through a minor blow up last week over something similar. Difference being, it's with easy child. Long story short....I'm one of those moms that is obsessed with checking on easy child's grades daily....many times a day if I'm waiting on a test/quiz score<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/surprise.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":surprise:" title="surprise :surprise:" data-shortname=":surprise:" />! He has always been a straight A student & we know what he is capable of. He's been slacking in some areas this year & bounces back if he knows we are going to take privelages away if he doesn't stay on top of his school work. husband finally had enough last week & said he didn't want to hear daily reports on his grades anymore......he could suffer the consequences when the report card came out & deal with them until the next grading period! Yikes. I disagree....if there is a missing paper, I wanna know where it is at! If he had a week to work on something & forgot, I wanna know why!So, I'm in the middle on this one & decided to continue to push easy child when I see he needs it....but, cut my talking about it so much by about 75%.I only speak to husband about it if it's major. I suppose we expect too much out of him, but when we hamper down on him he works harder & shows those A's. That won't work if we wait for every report card to show up!Like I said before, this is easy child though & he does very well at school. The others have given some good advice. I think if the service is available to check grades daily.....by all means, I'm gonna do it! I'm just going to be more "hush-hush" about it.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #483d8b">So much for long story short! LOL!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="4sumrzn, post: 139045, member: 4133"] [COLOR=darkslateblue]I'm getting something out of these replies myself. Thanks for posting this. We went through a minor blow up last week over something similar. Difference being, it's with easy child. Long story short....I'm one of those moms that is obsessed with checking on easy child's grades daily....many times a day if I'm waiting on a test/quiz score:surprised1:! He has always been a straight A student & we know what he is capable of. He's been slacking in some areas this year & bounces back if he knows we are going to take privelages away if he doesn't stay on top of his school work. husband finally had enough last week & said he didn't want to hear daily reports on his grades anymore......he could suffer the consequences when the report card came out & deal with them until the next grading period! Yikes. I disagree....if there is a missing paper, I wanna know where it is at! If he had a week to work on something & forgot, I wanna know why!So, I'm in the middle on this one & decided to continue to push easy child when I see he needs it....but, cut my talking about it so much by about 75%.I only speak to husband about it if it's major. I suppose we expect too much out of him, but when we hamper down on him he works harder & shows those A's. That won't work if we wait for every report card to show up!Like I said before, this is easy child though & he does very well at school. The others have given some good advice. I think if the service is available to check grades daily.....by all means, I'm gonna do it! I'm just going to be more "hush-hush" about it.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#483d8b]So much for long story short! LOL![/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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