Dear Wendy,
Thank you for your comment-pliment. (Haha!Some how that word seems like it should have come from your dad.) I've been feeling guilty about not blogging for about 3 weeks, (not consecutively, but all together) - so your encouragement (or discouragement?) inspires the approval addict in me, hence my post, just for you.
I am wondering, however, what it would take to do the same for you and get you to START a blog?
Well, from the last writing until now, we have been busy with having non-stop visits or traveling out of town ourselves, and catching up or regular life in between. I have some AWESOME books to blog about. I also have some funny stories to tell - but since I'm trying to think of one right now, I can't... :-)
So many of my funny stories are not really mine - but Eli's. 2nd grade continues to be a growing experience. Last week we had been talking about respecting authority at home, and so I challenged him to find unique ways to show respect to the people at school who were in authority over him, and to come home and tell me what he did. I encouraged him, then, each day afterwards to do not only the things he did the day before, but to add a new attempt each day to build on the others and I would be thinking of a reward for him. In my attempts to be very concrete and specific, I said I wanted his actions to be something that was obvious enough to those around him that they would notice a difference, even if I called his teacher to check on his behavior. He seemed to respond to this challenge, and reported something simple each day. I was excited!
It was ironic then, when a few days later, word made it back to us that he was driving his teacher nuts. When I finally checked on it, I found that my instructions had translated to him having a tally sheet on his desk to mark every time he said "yes ma'am" to his teacher, and that he'd told her that he needed to say this "two-hundred times" so his mom would give him a prize. And apparently, he made sure to check with her every time he said it, (just in case I called and asked.)
My next book will be called "Social Skills Suicide: How to set your child up for failure every time....".
5 comments:
Heather! We had been wondering where you went. I'm glad to see you back on, and hope that it is able to happen more frequently.
Always love what you have to say.
I look forward to writing this new book together. :-)
heather, i look forward to READING your book, and am hoping it's on the market before alani turns 7 and i can in turn set her up for "failure every single time!" you crack me up and i have missed your blogs! welcome back!
I made the same mistake with my brood...only it was asking them to be nice to their siblings. I remember a few instances of one of them holding down the other one while they "did something nice for them". Child logic was too much for me! Save me a copy of your book!
You did it! I knew it was in you! Thank you, Best Friend Heather! Next coffee's on me.
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