I'm going in to see her teacher at 7:30 tomorrow morning. When she called a little bit ago, she had me talk to Emeline to remind Emeline that she was not, in fact, in clown school, but at regular school and she needed to get her shit together (my words in my head, not into the phone).
Her teacher was calling me to ask for advice as to how to handle it(and damn, do I feel like it's the karma ship come to call with my posting about the issues with my Daisy scout).
And also, Emeline lied to her! Teacher asked her if her parent's saw the note home and Emeline told her, "Oh they saw it and they don't care how I act in school."
!!!!! Totally normal for her age, but still kind of face-slappy when you hear that your own kid is doing it.
Sorry to hear about the frustrations Aims.
As for my travel it is the same as usual only on smaller plane with more idiots than usual. I'm waiting for my connection in Reno now.
I'd say do a no-TV experiment for a set period of time (2 weeks) and see if that helps before testing for anything.
That's the first thing that happens when I get home tonight. No more television.
Teacher asked her if her parent's saw the note home and Emeline told her, "Oh they saw it and they don't care how I act in school."
Ha! She's got balls, I'll give her that.
{{Aims}}
PS, Aims, if it helps, when I'm really frustrated, I find myself whining to myself, "Why can't we set clear boundries and consequences like J & A do??? Why are we freaking PUSHOVERS???"
Why can't we set clear boundries and consequences like J & A do???
It must be the initials - my neighbors who are also a J&A are *way* better at that stuff for their son than we are for D. (The only TV their son has ever seen was the World Series. I'm not sure he knows there is anything on TV other than baseball.)
Aims, if it helps, when I'm really frustrated, I find myself whining to myself, "Why can't we set clear boundries and consequences like J & A do??? Why are we freaking PUSHOVERS???"
Ok, that makes me smile. In a semi-ironic way. Because I totally see myself on the bottom rung of the parenting ladder of success here.
I'm pretty certain I'd be the bottom rung. It's one of the reasons I stick with having pets.
Oh, Aims. {{{}}} and hairpets, indeed. I wish you and Joe well, trying to solve this.
Hey, and you can always threat sending her to Israel. Maybe exchanging her with a baby camel. I promise I'll take good care of her, though I have no idea where to score a baby camel. But I'll try and find one for you.
You find that camel and you totally have a deal.
Emeline even knew some Hebrew at one point in time. She's probably lost it from not using it as much, but she's teachable. Mostly.
