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stevenpiziks) wrote2008-03-13 08:34 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2008-03-13 08:34 pm
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Just Once . . .
Just once I'd like to a week--a day, even--when all three boys come home with sterling behavior reports. Just freakin' once. Every day we have to deal with at least one kid who had a behavior problem in school. And I do mean =every= fucking day.
I'm tired, and I can't wait until summer and it's accompanying respite.
This week, for example, we had this:
MONDAY: Maksim gets no good behavior stickers at all, Aran earns only one. (They both need two out of three.) They both lose TV for a day. Sasha is fine.
TUESDAY: Maksim gets two stickers, but is on "yellow" on the behavior traffic light, so he loses video games. Aran has earned no stickers at all and is crying in his room about it. It takes ten minutes to calm him down. Sasha behaves fine at school, but throws a tantrum when I check his vocabulary homework and make him redo the problems with mistakes.
WEDNESDAY: Maksim earns three stickers and behaves perfectly. Aran has three stickers. Sasha has been put on Step Two of the middle school's weekly discipline system (two steps in a single day) and has a note from his teacher that I have to sign. Kala informs him that if he gets to Step Three before the end of the week, he can't go to the St. Patrick's Day dance on Thursday.
THURSDAY: Mackie comes home with three stickers. Aran comes home with three stickers. Sasha was put on Step Three. He can't go to the dance now. He is spending the evening upset and pouting and playing the martyr.
This is completely typical. Every day it's something. Kala and I are both tired of handing out consequences every day. Just for a week or even a few days I'd like to have good behavior reports from all three of them.
I'm tired, and I can't wait until summer and it's accompanying respite.
This week, for example, we had this:
MONDAY: Maksim gets no good behavior stickers at all, Aran earns only one. (They both need two out of three.) They both lose TV for a day. Sasha is fine.
TUESDAY: Maksim gets two stickers, but is on "yellow" on the behavior traffic light, so he loses video games. Aran has earned no stickers at all and is crying in his room about it. It takes ten minutes to calm him down. Sasha behaves fine at school, but throws a tantrum when I check his vocabulary homework and make him redo the problems with mistakes.
WEDNESDAY: Maksim earns three stickers and behaves perfectly. Aran has three stickers. Sasha has been put on Step Two of the middle school's weekly discipline system (two steps in a single day) and has a note from his teacher that I have to sign. Kala informs him that if he gets to Step Three before the end of the week, he can't go to the St. Patrick's Day dance on Thursday.
THURSDAY: Mackie comes home with three stickers. Aran comes home with three stickers. Sasha was put on Step Three. He can't go to the dance now. He is spending the evening upset and pouting and playing the martyr.
This is completely typical. Every day it's something. Kala and I are both tired of handing out consequences every day. Just for a week or even a few days I'd like to have good behavior reports from all three of them.