That sounds fair.

the consequences of that approach would be for *you*

I think this is also part of the therapist's reasoning. She refers to the fact that I am still recovering from being traumatized (her term) in mid-June. She's not wrong and I basically stay at a place of mid to high alert should he spin out-of-control at any moment.

Bangs or no bangs

Bangs for me for sure. Everyone else, like Jesse, should decide what is best for their own foreheads.

Johnny Legend or Usher

I'd say Usher but I don't really have an opinion. What's a Johnny Legend?

Roller Derby: flat track or banked

No question. Flat track all the way!

Gibson or Fender

About these I have no opinion.

I guess I will just acknowledge that I know he is making a choice to not do it, will let the teacher know that I am aware of it and let her decide if she wants to have any consequences, and also let him know that come the fall homework will become a requirement that reflects on real-school grades.

This seems pretty wise to me.

Given that it doesn't sound like the homework actually matters in any way, it does sound like borrowing trouble to make a big deal out of it. Pick your battles, wait it out, see what happens at real school in the fall. I can see the reasoning.

That makes sense to me msbelle. Let the teacher work out the consequences within the classroom, and that frees up you to focus on helping mac to find better ways of communicating his needs to you.

I agree. And I think Mac knows the difference between Summer and "real" school and that the homework rules are different.

Can you nice people please remind me that I should never read the comments on newspaper articles?

Because these comments leave me blind with rage and tears.

It's an ongoing problem, the hope that your neighbors will turn out to be rational people saying intelligent things vs. the past experience that the people who comment in newspapers are raging fools.

Connie, so, so true.

There's an ongoing case around here re: some people in Southern Utah who were arrested for stealing Indian artifacts from public lands, where half the people are saying "What? No one was using them, if they were valuable someone would be taking care of them, why the big fuss over a bunchy of old pottery/textiles/bones?" and half are saying "Get your felonious mitts off our nation's heritage, you dipwads." I'm pleased with the people who ware being dumbfounded that anyone is defending the practice, but horrified at the number of people who simply cannot see that anything wrong has occurred.

To add to the drama, one of the high-profile arrestees was a beloved doctor in the small town, and he committed suicde the day after his arrest. Then another suspect committed suicide two days later. The doctor's wife and daughter have put in for a plea bargain. The local idiots are bewailing how a wonderful man was hounded to his death over something so irrelevant as the stuff ancient Indians left lying around. Turns out some of that stuff "lying around" was in graves, but, hey, that was so long ago, who really cares?

Feh.