It was school awards day at the Junior High and this is the second time I volunteered to hand out certificates. Cameron is a superstar every where we go, but in this environment even Sheridan can find him pretty cute. He is smiles for everyone.
TICKED OFF:
Right now I'm ticked off. Cameron is fine. Perfectly fine, standing with his back to the front door.
He doesn't want to do school work right now so he's whined through a math sheet and decided he didn't know the total of 3 quarters, or how to add. I'm ticked.
This is ONE OF THE BIGGEST GOALS of my homeschooling: to find the trigger that will help him WANT TO, or JUST learn.
I am EVEN MORE TICKED when he says, "I'm not smart." This is code for: I don't want to do this now. Every. Time.
I have explained the reason we do school, how we do school and why he's home a bunch of times. He knows it's easier here....until I make him finish something and then he has the audacity to say, "This is why I want to be in school." Code for: If I don't want to do it in school, I don't have to. And I get to go play outside and have PE.
When we started school, a long 9 days ago, if he wasn't interested I would simply ask him to sit on his bed until he was ready. That completely backfired: on this day he sat quietly for about 45 minutes (I almost forgot about him), then he finished all his school work quickly. I had NO IDEA he had made a plan for the next time he didn't want to do his work. Further proving he's COMPLETELY SMART.
On Thursday, of our first week, (a mere 2 days later than the bed sitting contest) he asked if he could sit on his bed...3 minutes into our morning. "NO! You're going to sit right here and finish this." Oh well, back to the drawing board...which explains why he's standing with his back to the front door.
Today....I could send him back to school. They could handle him, teach him, and coddle him. I'm just not into it either.
But I'll get over it.
THE POSSIBILITIES WITH THIS KID ARE ENDLESS!
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