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Report Cards and Listening Skills

February 06, 2009 8:48 am by yourLI.com in
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A cup of tea (non-sweetened due to my South Beach Diet) poured into a clay creation created by one of the kids revived the circuits.  I stretched pushing the joints into high gear.

Time to jump start my day. I had goals. Today would be gloriously easy even with stressful moments; I would breeze through it with a Mary Poppins attitude.  Hmm... not quite!

The fiery red head woke needing 'mama lovin' AND a host of ailments. He talks endlessly about body parts growing and bones that 'hurt'. This pain stops him from participating in life. Today, it's easier to pick him up and bring him up the stairs then to deal with drama when running through rooms getting ready for work and school. I should ALSO know better when he is quiet, that hell is breaking loose.  Last night, he managed to stick some type of blue silly putty mess all over the new sweatshirt for today's school attire. Ten minutes (precious time) spent taking the stubborn sticky blue putty off his new sweatshirt.  There might have been a moment where I yelled, he yelled and maybe I asked him “why”, and quickly he said "I don't know."

It's those "I don't know why's" that baffle me.  Ten minutes later, giggling and smiling we styled our hair in front of the mirror. He wanted his gold gel. I said "that's cool!" What was I thinking? I let him control the gold gel bottle, gold gel dripped from his hands; I attempted to clean up the mess with cotton balls. I yelled "run...run to the bathroom...run." I cleaned the rest up; in this moment I may have traces of gold in my hair.  Who knows? I ask him why he would pour from a height, and I get the usual "I don't know why."He's a boy, I'm learning. I am told boys tend to mature later and get into a ton of trouble. 

Yesterday he brought home his report card. I am advised that he has great aptitude but slow in finishing the lesson. Although he went up in Math, he went down in listening. I know what keeps him ten paces behind, distractions. I produced him, he has my genes. I am easily taken off course, we call it the "shiny key" syndrome. I set goals with him this morning, he will focus and listen.  I had a ten minute conversation about listening to the teacher, and focusing like a ninja on his work. I tried to use visuals and analogies that would keep his attention.

I said “OK, are you ready to meet those goals”, he said "What did you say I wasn't listening?"

Grrrrrrrhh!