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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 358240" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>Oh, I agree, DF. There is likely to be a difficult child component to her all by its lonesome. But I firmly beleive its enhanced by her mom's admitted lack of discpline and involvement.</p><p> </p><p>I stopped playing the games and if she says the teacher did this or that to her, I have all the teachers on email or my cell phone...I dial them up and ask. Its stopped.</p><p> </p><p>When she kept swiping the game boy from her mom (who had "taken it away" because she'd taken it to school) and taking it to school, that last time, I put it in the safe instead of taking it back to mom's. And I left it there 6 months. It never went back to school.</p><p> </p><p>Mom's reaction to everything (IF she does anything) is to take away tv and video games (But she's not NOT allowed to watch tv, she just can't choose what to watch - she has to watch whatever someone else has on cause mom doesn't want to go without her tv). But last year, when grades and turning in work were a problem, I talked mom into making her earn video game and tv time by turning in work and getting good grades for the last half of last year, instead of taking everything away IF she got bag grades and didn't turn in the work. There were very few D's and F's and NO missing assignments. She has had upwards of 50 missing assignments this year and is looking at failing math and social studies at this point this quarter.</p><p> </p><p>In February, she had 14 or so missing assignments over 4 weeks. She told her mom it was because she'd been ill and missed school after being with us for the weekend and avoided getting in trouble with mom. She'd missed 1 day. Then, when she wanted to switch weekends to go camping with us in March, her mom questioned it being a good idea because it was still cool out and she'd "missed so much school". Cultured difficult child even told her mom that she hadn't really been all that sick, trying to get to go, but we were the ones that stood the ground that time and said no....you missed too much work to take that chance again. </p><p> </p><p>So its not that she wouldn't do the stuff...she would. But I think it could be stopped or seriously curbed if someone would just do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 358240, member: 1848"] Oh, I agree, DF. There is likely to be a difficult child component to her all by its lonesome. But I firmly beleive its enhanced by her mom's admitted lack of discpline and involvement. I stopped playing the games and if she says the teacher did this or that to her, I have all the teachers on email or my cell phone...I dial them up and ask. Its stopped. When she kept swiping the game boy from her mom (who had "taken it away" because she'd taken it to school) and taking it to school, that last time, I put it in the safe instead of taking it back to mom's. And I left it there 6 months. It never went back to school. Mom's reaction to everything (IF she does anything) is to take away tv and video games (But she's not NOT allowed to watch tv, she just can't choose what to watch - she has to watch whatever someone else has on cause mom doesn't want to go without her tv). But last year, when grades and turning in work were a problem, I talked mom into making her earn video game and tv time by turning in work and getting good grades for the last half of last year, instead of taking everything away IF she got bag grades and didn't turn in the work. There were very few D's and F's and NO missing assignments. She has had upwards of 50 missing assignments this year and is looking at failing math and social studies at this point this quarter. In February, she had 14 or so missing assignments over 4 weeks. She told her mom it was because she'd been ill and missed school after being with us for the weekend and avoided getting in trouble with mom. She'd missed 1 day. Then, when she wanted to switch weekends to go camping with us in March, her mom questioned it being a good idea because it was still cool out and she'd "missed so much school". Cultured difficult child even told her mom that she hadn't really been all that sick, trying to get to go, but we were the ones that stood the ground that time and said no....you missed too much work to take that chance again. So its not that she wouldn't do the stuff...she would. But I think it could be stopped or seriously curbed if someone would just do it. [/QUOTE]
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