Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Another day goes swooshing by!
Got a lot of other things done, but not as much posting as I intended. Oh, well.
So here's another Mike story. As you may know, one of the perils of being an only child is that it tends to erase the perceived line between child and adult status. Oh, Mike can SEE it, he just rails against it as massively NOT FAIR. "It's a free country!" he tells us, often and frequently.
Today word was passed to Caro at the middle school that yesterday Mike walked away from a teacher in mid-rant to him and a few other students (to be fair, the bell HAD rung), and he pretended not to hear her when she tried to call him back. I was neither happy nor surprised to hear my darling boy had done such a thing.
When I questioned him about it, he indignantly informed me the teacher had been YELLING at them. "I don't see why I should have to be around someone acting that way," he said, in the tone of one who KNOWS he's playing a winning hand here. Mainly because that is pretty much word for word what we say to him when he's throwing a tantrum and needs a time out. I managed not to laugh, but it was a close shave.
Kind of tough, finding yourself stuck between a boy who has a point, and the way the world actually tends to work. But the sad truth is, sometimes you have to let some people yell at you, and sometimes that means teachers.
Happily, the new semester had just started yesterday and he was in that teacher's class by mistake. So we dodge that bullet for now...although he is going to write her a note of apology, for form's sake. He's still got to do a couple years and change in middle school. :/
So here's another Mike story. As you may know, one of the perils of being an only child is that it tends to erase the perceived line between child and adult status. Oh, Mike can SEE it, he just rails against it as massively NOT FAIR. "It's a free country!" he tells us, often and frequently.
Today word was passed to Caro at the middle school that yesterday Mike walked away from a teacher in mid-rant to him and a few other students (to be fair, the bell HAD rung), and he pretended not to hear her when she tried to call him back. I was neither happy nor surprised to hear my darling boy had done such a thing.
When I questioned him about it, he indignantly informed me the teacher had been YELLING at them. "I don't see why I should have to be around someone acting that way," he said, in the tone of one who KNOWS he's playing a winning hand here. Mainly because that is pretty much word for word what we say to him when he's throwing a tantrum and needs a time out. I managed not to laugh, but it was a close shave.
Kind of tough, finding yourself stuck between a boy who has a point, and the way the world actually tends to work. But the sad truth is, sometimes you have to let some people yell at you, and sometimes that means teachers.
Happily, the new semester had just started yesterday and he was in that teacher's class by mistake. So we dodge that bullet for now...although he is going to write her a note of apology, for form's sake. He's still got to do a couple years and change in middle school. :/
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