Are you sure your son isn't my son?

My son often does the homework AND THEN FORGETS TO TURN IT IN.

We must all have the same kid. Although in the case of mine you can substitute "forgets" for "doesn't bother" as often as not. Where he thinks that will get him, I have no idea.

This is when you just want to open the top of their heads and spoon in the common sense.

At least it's a spoon with some. Others, you need a ladle.

Ooh! My coworker just rode down in the elevator with Jesse Jackson!

TCBITW is nearly SEVEN?!?!?!?!?

How do these things happen ?

Well, Trudy, it starts with a man and a woman....

At least it's a spoon with some. Others, you need a ladle.

Mine? Firehose.

I missed your post erikaj, you deleted before I got caught up.

The whole lack of common sense thing sounds very frustrating. I hope the common sense fairy makes some visits.

Are you sure your son isn't my son?

I know! It would be so easy for them to just do the damn work and hand it in. But it gets lost. He doesn't put his name on it. It's never ending and next year the teachers get less tolerant.

By the numbers he shouldn't even be passed on to high school, but all that seems to matter are the testing scores and of course he nails those. Grrr.

I did just eat a huge bowl of tomato soup with oyster crackers. Yum. Comfort food.

Well, it's okay. Expletive-laden blurting only rarely adds to things, outside of Deadwood.

I keep trying to talk her into soccer team, but she doesn't want to join a team even she talks about liking soccer. Parenting hard.

Yeah, sports are good for the social skills. And that much more parent work! We do have a lot of kids in the neighborhood. Neither of the boys go to their "home" schools so the friends they make at school they don't see that much out of school. The friends in the neighborhood they don't go to school with. Kids need other kids.