Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, everyone.
A new school year begins in the morning. I just talked to difficult child 3 and said I want him to treat tomorrow as a normal school day. He's a smart kid - he said, "But isn't tomorrow teachers only?"
I pointed out that later in the week we have to take a day off to go shopping, and he can also use tomorrow to ease himself into the school year, so he's willingly agreed to begin work at 9 am (a normal school commencement time in Australia) and if he works well I'll take him to the beach at lunchtime. He's got all his schoolwork already filed, ready for him to choose which subject to do first. For him, it's like having a plate of different foods. For each food he chooses to eat next, his choices slowly dwindle until it's all gone. But by choosing what he does and when, he's working so much more efficiently it's wonderful.
Hopefully I'll get some of my own work done tomorrow too. [did I just see a flock of pink squealing things flap past the window?]
I still feel virtuous - my friend & I got the article on bullying finished and submitted this afternoon. We kept having to change word length and format as the editor changed things on us - she got a last minute ad from our local which cut our proposed article length in half. Oh, well... all the stuff left over can go towards next issue's sequel.
Here's hoping for more fine weather tomorrow. We've got moderately high summer temperatures, but not unpleasantly so. I can take my small tent to the beach and maybe work from there. I'm living in my swimsuit - I own more swimsuits than shoes.
Marg
A new school year begins in the morning. I just talked to difficult child 3 and said I want him to treat tomorrow as a normal school day. He's a smart kid - he said, "But isn't tomorrow teachers only?"
I pointed out that later in the week we have to take a day off to go shopping, and he can also use tomorrow to ease himself into the school year, so he's willingly agreed to begin work at 9 am (a normal school commencement time in Australia) and if he works well I'll take him to the beach at lunchtime. He's got all his schoolwork already filed, ready for him to choose which subject to do first. For him, it's like having a plate of different foods. For each food he chooses to eat next, his choices slowly dwindle until it's all gone. But by choosing what he does and when, he's working so much more efficiently it's wonderful.
Hopefully I'll get some of my own work done tomorrow too. [did I just see a flock of pink squealing things flap past the window?]
I still feel virtuous - my friend & I got the article on bullying finished and submitted this afternoon. We kept having to change word length and format as the editor changed things on us - she got a last minute ad from our local which cut our proposed article length in half. Oh, well... all the stuff left over can go towards next issue's sequel.
Here's hoping for more fine weather tomorrow. We've got moderately high summer temperatures, but not unpleasantly so. I can take my small tent to the beach and maybe work from there. I'm living in my swimsuit - I own more swimsuits than shoes.
Marg