Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Since you haven't bought tickets yet, I think you can swap out a summer/weekend concert without any guilt.
Also, thanks for reminding me to check Campus Parent, because apparently my 6th grader has only turned in half of his "engagement" assignments this quarter in ELA. (Which is his favorite class EXCEPT for doing the !$%(!!@%! work because he thinks the assignments are dumb. And they might be! But still!)
Oh Jess -- I'm reading this book and flipped past the references, and there was your DH! He must have quoted from one of his articles.
Oh, cool! I wonder if he knows? (It's his birthday today.)
My boss walked in my office before I had a chance to say -- flea, I think you could fairly do either thing, and that is a shitty situation for you to be in. But I probably wouldn't buy the tickets.
Jesse, can you text me a picture of the reference with DH's name in it? I'm curious to see if it was an article or his book.
My first instinct was to say take her to the concert, but after hearing that the gift wasn't this specific concert, but any concert in 2019, I think it's fine to say that you no longer think it's a good idea to take her out of school for 2 days for this specific show. That seems like an eminently reasonable consequence of not doing her work: having to choose another concert instead that won't interfere with school. (Easy for me to say, I know! I don't envy you having to deliver that message, if that's what you end up deciding to do.)
But, I mean, I also don't think you'd be a bad parent for taking her to the concert anyway.
What others have said, I didn't realize it wasn't the specific concert promised as a present. So yeah, judgement call appropriate either way. (so not helpful!)
Jesse, can you text me a picture of the reference with DH's name in it? I'm curious to see if it was an article or his book.
I will try to remember when I get home! Either way, I'd assume it's a quote he got from one of the relevant players, because those are 90% of the people quoted in this book.
The more parents post here about kids not doing their homework, the more I feel guilty for everything I put my mother through in school and the more I worry about how ltc is going to torture me in school.
Could it be useful to query Casper about what she thinks is fair in this situation, and her reasoning about it? Is summer school versus a cool job a good reason to forego this particular concert? I take it that there is not enough make-up(s) for past assignments that she could reasonably work her butt off on?
Alas, consequences.
Meantime, I'm hiding from my Facebook page where evidently I have touched off either the intifada or genocide. It's not even watch from the hall, through my fingers. I could stop it by deleting the post, I suppose, but I hate doing that, and on a better day I might be able to read through it all without getting exasperated or angry.
So, yeah, consequences for me, too. At least I'm not getting an F in math.