Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, everyone.
Well, difficult child 3 got a fair bit of schoolwork done today - all in Art. He's not good at it, it's too 'waffly' for him and he's not good at holding a pen or brush anyway. At 13, he still can't colour inside the lines! But there was 3 weeks work for him to do. Luckily all three weeks' work was connected, so he could use the same paints and the same techniques. I got out my good acrylics for him to work with and helped him.
So now three paintings are done. The packages still need to be assembled (when it's all dry) and then I sign off on them, but all in all it took him (us) about two hours. He moaned a bit about "Don't you care about your poor boy suffering here?" but I jollied him through it and did some of my decoupage at the same time, then we went to the beach while the first lot of painting dried. He did the next bit on our return and then husband & I went back down to the beach - difficult child 3 chose not to come because he had got thoroughly chilled the first time round (no meat on those frail bones).
He's still concerned that he's got too much work - and I think he could be right.
This isn't homework, by the way - this is schoolwork which he simply doesn't have time to finish. Until we've sorted it out with his teachers it HAS to be completed, and the more he falls behind the more he will have to do and the more overwhelmed he will feel.
The poor kid just gets so frantic! And I do feel he needs his weekends off, or at least one day out of seven! He is trying so hard and WILL work well during school hours. He's still getting far more done than he ever managed iin mainstream.
This isn't your usual homework horrors - this is a kid who deserves a system that works better for him.
We'll have something better in place by next Tuesday's school visit, hopefully.
While difficult child 3 was finally playing his beloved computer games after all that work, easy child 2/difficult child 2 & I planted out some pansies in her potted roses. We replanted some violets (about to flower, by the look of them) and will do more potted gardening tomorrow. My gardenia bush is in flower at last - I picked one and it is perfuming my kitchen. All the exotics are in pots, only Australian natives in the ground at our place (with about three exceptions). The only watering the main garden gets, is rain. Only the pots get TLC, and half of those are dead. Ooops! But there's only so many buckets of water I can carry... although tomorrow night, we're permitted to use the hose! But I feel so guilty...
Have a good Saturday, everyone.
Marg
Well, difficult child 3 got a fair bit of schoolwork done today - all in Art. He's not good at it, it's too 'waffly' for him and he's not good at holding a pen or brush anyway. At 13, he still can't colour inside the lines! But there was 3 weeks work for him to do. Luckily all three weeks' work was connected, so he could use the same paints and the same techniques. I got out my good acrylics for him to work with and helped him.
So now three paintings are done. The packages still need to be assembled (when it's all dry) and then I sign off on them, but all in all it took him (us) about two hours. He moaned a bit about "Don't you care about your poor boy suffering here?" but I jollied him through it and did some of my decoupage at the same time, then we went to the beach while the first lot of painting dried. He did the next bit on our return and then husband & I went back down to the beach - difficult child 3 chose not to come because he had got thoroughly chilled the first time round (no meat on those frail bones).
He's still concerned that he's got too much work - and I think he could be right.
This isn't homework, by the way - this is schoolwork which he simply doesn't have time to finish. Until we've sorted it out with his teachers it HAS to be completed, and the more he falls behind the more he will have to do and the more overwhelmed he will feel.
The poor kid just gets so frantic! And I do feel he needs his weekends off, or at least one day out of seven! He is trying so hard and WILL work well during school hours. He's still getting far more done than he ever managed iin mainstream.
This isn't your usual homework horrors - this is a kid who deserves a system that works better for him.
We'll have something better in place by next Tuesday's school visit, hopefully.
While difficult child 3 was finally playing his beloved computer games after all that work, easy child 2/difficult child 2 & I planted out some pansies in her potted roses. We replanted some violets (about to flower, by the look of them) and will do more potted gardening tomorrow. My gardenia bush is in flower at last - I picked one and it is perfuming my kitchen. All the exotics are in pots, only Australian natives in the ground at our place (with about three exceptions). The only watering the main garden gets, is rain. Only the pots get TLC, and half of those are dead. Ooops! But there's only so many buckets of water I can carry... although tomorrow night, we're permitted to use the hose! But I feel so guilty...
Have a good Saturday, everyone.
Marg
. It happens, you can start all over tomorrow :smile: Enjoy dinner out.
