You do! Be good to her.

I'm trying. We're really taking turns these last few days. Kind of sucky week for both of us.

If this had been the case in my school, I can guaranty, I would have never done homework and no amount of punishment from my mother would have convinced me

This. I had enough knock-down-drag-outs about how Dad should just ignore all those Unsatisfactory effort marks -- if I was getting 100s on the tests, why should I expend any more energy than I had to? If there had been no grading at all, fugeddaboutit.

Would somebody make the peoplemen in my family stop being craxy? KTHNXBYE!

This. I had enough knock-down-drag-outs about how Dad should just ignore all those Unsatisfactory effort marks -- if I was getting 100s on the tests, why should I expend any more energy than I had to?

Yes, exactly. I barely did my homework when it WAS graded; if it wasn't, there would have been no hope of me doing it.

*POOF* You're problem is taken care of, brenda.

ION, I am weird. I will check b.org and e-mail while my search pages are loading, but I won't go to the bathroom. I don't want to appear as a slacker, so I have to pee SO BADLY right now.

I know. I'm weird.

vw! Go for winky-tinks!

If there had been no grading at all, fugeddaboutit.

I'm a fan of pass/fail myself. I hate having to enforce rules I don't always agree with.

IO(parentingsucks)N, Bobby threw up all over the bus, the car pool mom's car, and then his bed. He's asleep now and I am back at work. He had chocolate milk and a juice at lunch. Too much sugar for him. Looks like no baseball practice tonight. He'll sleep until about 10 or so, then wake up starving.

I'm a fan of pass/fail myself.

I would've worked for a pass. No accounting at all, though? Hell, I still don't do boring stuff just because it's the right thing to do. I do it because it'll go on my Permanent Record.

hairpats, laura. sounds like a really rough day in the parenthood.

I can't think of anything boreing, repetative, or hateful ( which was my view of things like spelling and math homework) that I do now , that no one cares about. I can think of household chores that fall in that category, but I do them because if I don't I'm not happy with the state of things. and work - well they pay me to be bored somedays. ( It is so weird to have to ask for more work )

to do homework... I would have needed something more than detention as a negative- because I didn't do a hell of a lot afterschool but read - guess what I would have done in detention. So there would have had to have been some sort of dire consequences at home ( gass money comming out of my allowance for the extra car trips? ) plus some sort of real reward for doing ALL of my homework. Kinda like vw's ipod reward. some large dollar amount to spend at book store - or being allowed to stayup as late as I wanted every friday or saturday for the next quarter...those would have worked for me