IT'S A HARD, HARD LIFE...

Apparently I'm a poor parent because I take my child back to school when he doesn't bring home his homework (gasp!).

Yes, it's a hard, hard life that Mouth leads...

Monday he left his homework at school. (All I could think was, "How the hell do you forget your homework on the FIRST DAY BACK TO SCHOOL?!!!!????) I got the usual bits about how "it doesn't matter"... "I can do it tomorrow".... "It doesn't matter".... "It doesn't matter"... (Anyone sense a theme there??) On the way home from karate I pulled into the school parking lot, where he starts SCREECHING at me. (Like I said -- hard life.)

After many threats, some which involved me hauling my Mommy behind to the rear of the van, he got out & walked up the steps to check the doors. Mind you, the parking lot is COMPLETELY EMPTY. Sullen goes up the steps behind Mouth in the buddy system (mainly so he could torment him) and Mouth starts pulling on the doors. First door - locked. Second door - locked. Third door - yanks -- locked. Fourth & final door -- BIG yank -- it starts to FLY OPEN. He SLAMS it shut... and it locks (according to Sullen). He turns around & comes back & tells me all the doors are locked. Once I let him know that I SAW the door fly open at least 6 inches, he tells me {wait for it....} "IT DOESN'T MATTER".

Then I get some hooey about how they block off the hallway. (Lie. Been in that school too many times after hours to know they don't.) Basically the child was too LAZY to walk the 50 yards down the hallway to his room to grab his homework.

After he's told he's grounded, I then get to hear, at the top of Mouth's lungs, for 37 full minutes, how it's MY FAULT because I HAD TO TAKE HIM TO SCHOOL.

Like I said -- it's a hard, hard, hard life when your parents SUCK SO BADLY that they drive your little rump back to school to pick up the homework you're too dippy to bring home so that you don't get in trouble....

I did alert the teachers (his classroom one & the math one) -- here were their responses:

Bless your heart! Keep that smile. Actually things have been going well here. Sounds like he is trying to make life more difficult at home. Will follow through as needed here though. Thanks. Keep the faith!

Thanks for your efforts to get Kevin on the ball in the New Year! He admitted immediately that he had not done his homework during the collection time. It is in his agenda to do both yesterday's and today'shomework. The look on his face told me that he was anxious about it, so I think your message is getting through! Thanks so much for your support! Hang in there, they grow up so fast! (said by a mom who misses those good old days!)

All I could think of was part of Anita Renfroe's schtick where she talks about older women telling you not to blink because it goes by so fast & if you blink you'll miss it... and then going home, dealing with the kids and continually blinking thinking, "C'mon, why isn't it going faster?!!!???"