Ailing with a sucky cold. Head and chest. Blast that fifth grade teacher I sat across from and breathed in her noxious cold germs. Luckily I haven't contracted strep which she did have last week. It's still early yet however..
Son # 1 showed me his grade slips for the last few weeks this morning during breakfast and low and behold- he is missing assignments. And the Creme de la Creme? A book report he has due tomorrow that should contain half a page paragraph summary on each page of the story. He has not one iota of the thing written. I think I scared him more sitting there quietly looking down than if I had ranted and raved like I ususally do. All I told him was to make a plan and get it done along with the missing work. He is so grounded.
Oh! for a cough syrup laced with Codeine.
Son # 1 showed me his grade slips for the last few weeks this morning during breakfast and low and behold- he is missing assignments. And the Creme de la Creme? A book report he has due tomorrow that should contain half a page paragraph summary on each page of the story. He has not one iota of the thing written. I think I scared him more sitting there quietly looking down than if I had ranted and raved like I ususally do. All I told him was to make a plan and get it done along with the missing work. He is so grounded.
Oh! for a cough syrup laced with Codeine.
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I swear, something must be in the air. Or water. Or both. Didn't I just post about missing assignments?
Kids! What are we going to do with these kids these days!?
(Name the musical.)
Aint motherhood wonderful!
Ack. kids and homework.
I have the cold from hell also, but mine is not in my chest...just in my exploding head so far.
PLUS one of my kittens is in heat.. lawd help me...
i look at abbie's assignments online and there's 0/25, 0/50 all over the place and i ask her and she says "i was absent that day" as if that gives her a free pass to NEVER do the assignment. sometimes i could shake her.
i hope you're feeling better, if not take an extra dose of that crack cough syrup you got and take a hot bath and call it a night.
no one would blame you!
Yes, ma'am, you did, Anne. I was gritting my teeth as I read it too.
Truth is, he is just like I was with his head in the clouds. I stopped procrastinating by 8th grade and pulled all A's after that. My fingers are crossed for him.
Mom- it has its moments!
Hope you are feeling betta, Sandi. I just bought some saline solution at the pharmacy and am snorting to beat the sinus infection I feel coming on. Ack is right...The cat is in heat already?! Good God!
Kimmy, I get an assignment/grade sheet every couple of weeks from a couple of J's classes and it never fails there are missing assignments. No amount of torture or lost privileges does the trick.
I wished I HAD the crack cough syrup. Now I may need antibiotics. Gah!
Are you feeling good?
Greeny, I am enjoying your blog more and more! I recognize you've had a bad year in terms of family and health, but your posts are never gloomy or self-pitying (I'd like some codine too, and I don't even have a cold ;)
Instead, you manage to turn a tiny family interaction into a delightful lesson in life. Hope your cold and the offspring's book report are soon done.
I prefer strep because then you can take antibiotics and get better. It's those viruses that linger! I hope you are feeling much better and need neither antibiotics or codeine.
Anne, was that the Music Man? or maybe West Side Story?
Im glad you called my attention to the positive attitude I am conveying on here, WS. Ill get right on that and try to be a bit more true to my nature from now on. (Glad you enjoy me).
Welcome Lexie and you have a point. After a while, the office visit charge is worth it just to get good drugs.
I thought it was from "Hair". Shows what I know about musicals.
Bye Bye Birdie
I'm feeling a bit sickly, too. Hope you feel better now!!
And it used to drive me nuts when my students wouldn't do their homework. (I guess that's the age-old teacher's lament, huh?? :) ) It must be frustrating for a parent, too!
Miss Healthypants, I hope you are feeling better now.
As to your question on my previous post about my status at the elementary- I am a Title I aide as hiring descriptions go but I have done everything from actual aide work for the teachers at the beginning to running the Exclerated Reader library (a reading program) to being a reading recovery coach and interventionist (I like the hauty sound of that) to now working with the math side of Title I. All in the elementary and now on my 9th year. Funny and I like to point it out to the kids- I had remedial math when I was in elementary. But I still need some help keeping my checkbook reconciled.
Should have been "Excelerated"
I prefer the Fentanyl patch...there's no bad aftertaste.
Greeny, thanks for the explanation. Sounds a little like you're a jack-of-all-trades...but I hope it's at least enjoyable work--at least most of the time. *smiles*
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