Comments on Are We There Yet?: Homework still blows and an ADHD update.

It's good you have to take time and slow down ...

2012-01-11T11:05:08.081-06:00

It's good you have to take time and slow down with homework. Otherwise you'd be signing your kids up for events that promise to better your kids childhood but really they just make parents crazy. The world starts stuff WAY too young. Yeah for wontonny's medicine. Boo for his cute rocket ship that I found so amusing.

And really, shouldn't will not be willn't ...

2012-01-11T10:48:06.532-06:00

And really, shouldn't will not be willn't instead of won't? Hang in there.

tonight's third grade math problem was (unsolv...

2012-01-10T23:08:41.406-06:00

tonight's third grade math problem was (unsolvable by dad who has a PhD in engineering) what is the next in the series of: 15, 25, 34, 42, 49, 55, _____

Luckily mom, who only has an MS in engineering, figured out the sequence in about 30 seconds. But what the heck good is this to a third grader!???

on to ADHD. Yesterday we did an inadvertent experiment in whether the Concerta was working for our sixth grader who started the meds around the third or fourth week of school (say Sept 15 as an estimate). Let's call this our science fair experiment (if only we could.) Long story short, due to an unfortunate incident with an air-rifle and a 13 year old girl holding it, he was short half a front tooth for 6 months that suddenly went rotten last week. Monday morning mom gave him his antibiotic first thing (can't forget that stuff!) but was going to wait on the Concerta because that stuff is a dieter's dream. Kills the appetite AND the sugar tooth. MUST. HAVE. BREAKFAST. BEFORE. SPEED. sooo, mom didn't give that pill and went to work and left said child with custodial parent who is THE ONE WHO SAID NEVER GIVE PILL UNTIL AFTER BREAKFAST SO THAT HE DOESN'T WASTE AWAY TO NOTHING... WILL EAT! Dad assumed mom had given Concerta with antibiotic.

Fast forward to 6:30 pm, just before boy scouts and mom asks "do you have any homework?" [stage note - enter screaming, crying, and kicking boxes for no good reason] "Yes mom, because I didn't get my meds today and I couldn't concentrate and couldn't do anything at school."

FINALLY after boyscouts and much crying and screaming (which I had conveniently forgotten was how the first 3 weeks of school had gone ever effing day) we convinced him to go to bed and we would wake him at 5 to get a pill and then at 6:15 to finish his homework which is really classwork because they aren't supposed to have homework except for special projects....

Experiment successful. Theorem proven. Medications are working.

I can't remember which grade exactly your litt...

2012-01-10T22:41:45.275-06:00

I can't remember which grade exactly your little (one(s)) is (are) (oy!) in but that conversation is exactly what happens in our house during homeschool. And may I just relate that it is mentally painful and tiring.

But also mix in a few, "no... Your three is backwards. No... Still backwards. .... No, here let me draw you a dot to start from.... No, backwards again..."

It's hard.

Wine? Chocolate? We totally deserve it by the end of the day.