Kris
01-31-2008, 12:58 AM
I admit I'm patting myself on the back a bit tonight. I found that our success isn't all in my mind. :)
Now that my son's friends are all in high school, for some reason, they have been asking him repeatedly to come back to school. This doesn't really surprise me. He was the class clown and always had great ideas for getting himself, and his buddies, into trouble. It was never anything serious -- harmless "boy" stuff -- and that was part of the reason the school wrote him off. I was specifically told that if he had been involved in drugs or violence at school, I would have had more help with him.
But anyway --
The subject came up again tonight -- about him going back to public school -- and he flat out told me he just wasn't interested. So I wanted to know why.
He said that he was able to spend more time with his friends now because he isn't in trouble all the time. He also told me that, now that we've finally got our system worked out, and things are going so smoothly, why mess with it? He said we had worked so hard to get to this point, and he was happy with the work and with his freedoms, he didn't want to change a thing.
He's excited about going to college. He was afraid he'd never be able to do that before because he saw so many kids from his school go to CC and not make it past the first semester.
He also told me that he thinks he works harder at home than he did at school (*that's* the truth! :)), but the work is interesting, challenging, and he likes the fact that I'm strict but fair -- knock me over with a feather!
I wanted to ask him, "Who are you, and what have you done with my son?"
Now that my son's friends are all in high school, for some reason, they have been asking him repeatedly to come back to school. This doesn't really surprise me. He was the class clown and always had great ideas for getting himself, and his buddies, into trouble. It was never anything serious -- harmless "boy" stuff -- and that was part of the reason the school wrote him off. I was specifically told that if he had been involved in drugs or violence at school, I would have had more help with him.
But anyway --
The subject came up again tonight -- about him going back to public school -- and he flat out told me he just wasn't interested. So I wanted to know why.
He said that he was able to spend more time with his friends now because he isn't in trouble all the time. He also told me that, now that we've finally got our system worked out, and things are going so smoothly, why mess with it? He said we had worked so hard to get to this point, and he was happy with the work and with his freedoms, he didn't want to change a thing.
He's excited about going to college. He was afraid he'd never be able to do that before because he saw so many kids from his school go to CC and not make it past the first semester.
He also told me that he thinks he works harder at home than he did at school (*that's* the truth! :)), but the work is interesting, challenging, and he likes the fact that I'm strict but fair -- knock me over with a feather!
I wanted to ask him, "Who are you, and what have you done with my son?"