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Monday, July 14, 2008
School
Erin started the first day of term today. But, she only got to school an hour late. Please help, I am pulling my hair out!! She went to bed early, we got her up at the correct time, but nobody can get this kid to school on time. She just doesn't take anything seriously, other than horse-riding. Okay, your first thought maybe the same as mine - stop the horse-riding. Exactly, bingo. But, her life will became pretty mundane, her fault? She couldn't even find her school shoes this morning after being asked from midday yesterday to organise all her uniform and check that everything was ready. I would hate to think what the teacher has to put up with. In fact I know what the teacher has to put up with, I get the phone calls and the 'please meet me ....." letters regularly. Erin really behaves like someone who has too much, she really doesn't appreciate anything. Her saddle is lying on the floor of the garage along with her other kit, dirty from the mud at the yard, she rarely cleans it. I only have my own personal experience to draw from, and just the idea of a pony when I was 12 was enough to have me whipped into shape?
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I have exactly the same issues, when you have the answer can you share it with me? I was kept waiting 25minutes today as CJ was late, the teacher punishing him for talking. What about any arrangements or life I may have? Don't even get me started on how they treat their stuff...
My girls don't get a choice in the mornings - up at 7am, breakfast and whatever and in the car at 8.20. If they aren't, I go without them! Same with coming out of school - it finishes at 3.15 and if they aren't out at the car by 3.30 I leave and they know it! I don't have time to be continually waiting for them - I have a life. LOL
vikiparker: ...and you would seriously leave your kids at school if they are not out in time?...do you live in SA or somewhere else in the world?
Anonymous took the words out of my mouth!
As I was reading, I was thinking "Clearly, she does not live in SA."
I think the way kids have to be fetched and carried here has led them to think that their parents (read 'moms') are their personal servants - there to serve them.
Its called 'entitlement' and our country is rotten with it.
On another tack (pardon pun!), at a time when my elder daughter was pretty impossible, a friend offered her a horse. She was horse MAD, like Erin.
My decision was to turn it down, the thinking being that it would have been rewarding bad behaviour.
Its a decision I have regretted all my life.
I think now that it would have made all the difference for both of us.
I guess the untidy ungrateful stuff may be just a hormonal stage that they have to go through.
This is turning out to be a BOOK but I'm nearly finished.
I have a friend who has just finished chemo - her hormones have just started re-kicking in. She says she can't believe how strong the emotional, unreasonable surges are.
She has even thrown things!
And this girl ain't like that.
She has three daughters and says it has helped her a LOT, realising what they are dealing with.
Hope that story helps.
It will get better -eventually.
Hang in there
Erin and my son Noah (aka the pokey puppy) must be long lost times. Unless he's gearing up for sailing I find myself waiting a century for him to get ready to go anywhere. I've actually started keeping an extra set of shoes in the car, just so we can keep going!
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