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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 552348" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Yes, it was awful. All of it. Ditching Kindergarten story we can now tell for laughs, but I can assure you, I wasn't laughing when I was called from school that difficult child had gone missing. We live in the area there even rather young children walk to school etc. on their own if the route is safe. Not Kindergarten aged but for example 7- or 8-year-olds if they are reliable. My difficult child of course was not reliable, but he was very tall to his age so no one paid any attention on him walking alone after running off from Kindergarten. And that made it very difficult to find him. It didn't help that when his disappearance got to the radio stations etc. police got a call that kid looking like difficult child had been seen playing in the bank of the river (with rather heavy flow.) We still don't know if that was difficult child (he didn't tell much about there he had been those five hours before he was found), but they already considered starting dragging the river at the time he was found (playing middle of the busy divided freeway.) And his schooling has been very stressful ever since.</p><p></p><p>We too value education and have tradition for higher education. Both I and husband have post-graduate degrees, in fact so have all of difficult child's grandparents (even my difficult child parents both manage to obtain PhDs somehow.) My difficult child is also very smart (in high IQ kind of the way.) But for difficult child school has been socially impossible. For us, letting it go in fact helped. My difficult child's grades are very high (he is easily in the top 5 % in nation wide, most likely in top 1 %) and partly because of family background he has always just assumed he would go to University and obtain higher education if his sport doesn't work out for him or after his sport career. So he has some internal drive for doing well in school and that is probably the reason that our letting go of the battle to get him actually go to school has given us so good results. With him it goes better, when we have let him do it in his own way. I'm sure this doesn't work with every kid, but it worked for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 552348, member: 14557"] Yes, it was awful. All of it. Ditching Kindergarten story we can now tell for laughs, but I can assure you, I wasn't laughing when I was called from school that difficult child had gone missing. We live in the area there even rather young children walk to school etc. on their own if the route is safe. Not Kindergarten aged but for example 7- or 8-year-olds if they are reliable. My difficult child of course was not reliable, but he was very tall to his age so no one paid any attention on him walking alone after running off from Kindergarten. And that made it very difficult to find him. It didn't help that when his disappearance got to the radio stations etc. police got a call that kid looking like difficult child had been seen playing in the bank of the river (with rather heavy flow.) We still don't know if that was difficult child (he didn't tell much about there he had been those five hours before he was found), but they already considered starting dragging the river at the time he was found (playing middle of the busy divided freeway.) And his schooling has been very stressful ever since. We too value education and have tradition for higher education. Both I and husband have post-graduate degrees, in fact so have all of difficult child's grandparents (even my difficult child parents both manage to obtain PhDs somehow.) My difficult child is also very smart (in high IQ kind of the way.) But for difficult child school has been socially impossible. For us, letting it go in fact helped. My difficult child's grades are very high (he is easily in the top 5 % in nation wide, most likely in top 1 %) and partly because of family background he has always just assumed he would go to University and obtain higher education if his sport doesn't work out for him or after his sport career. So he has some internal drive for doing well in school and that is probably the reason that our letting go of the battle to get him actually go to school has given us so good results. With him it goes better, when we have let him do it in his own way. I'm sure this doesn't work with every kid, but it worked for us. [/QUOTE]
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