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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 142142" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>That Friday sheet thing - is that a school issue? If so, I wouldn't allow it to intrude at home. School issues stay at school. While you can talk about it, maybe try to support her to do homework etc as needed, I wouldn't punish. Failure to do homework etc brings its own consequences from the school.</p><p></p><p>I agree about the room, too. We've tried to tidy the rooms for them and it's been a disaster. I get tired, they get stressed because they can't find anything. So all I do is grab what dirty clothes I can reach and throw them in the wash. Where possible, I will get them to do their own washing, if they didn't get their clothes into the laundry in time. </p><p></p><p>But in general - home issues are dealt with at home, school issues are dealt with at school.</p><p></p><p>Even difficult child 3's correspondence - he is having trouble with English so I asked his teacher to talk to him. We were in at the school on Thursday for a study day, I had arranged for his English teacher to meet with us and give him a lecture on what she expect from him. That way SHE is the ogre he has to please, and not me. But because I was there, I can remind him what she said. </p><p></p><p>It makes a huge difference when you're not also doing the school's dirty work as well.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 142142, member: 1991"] That Friday sheet thing - is that a school issue? If so, I wouldn't allow it to intrude at home. School issues stay at school. While you can talk about it, maybe try to support her to do homework etc as needed, I wouldn't punish. Failure to do homework etc brings its own consequences from the school. I agree about the room, too. We've tried to tidy the rooms for them and it's been a disaster. I get tired, they get stressed because they can't find anything. So all I do is grab what dirty clothes I can reach and throw them in the wash. Where possible, I will get them to do their own washing, if they didn't get their clothes into the laundry in time. But in general - home issues are dealt with at home, school issues are dealt with at school. Even difficult child 3's correspondence - he is having trouble with English so I asked his teacher to talk to him. We were in at the school on Thursday for a study day, I had arranged for his English teacher to meet with us and give him a lecture on what she expect from him. That way SHE is the ogre he has to please, and not me. But because I was there, I can remind him what she said. It makes a huge difference when you're not also doing the school's dirty work as well. Marg [/QUOTE]
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