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What have I become?What have I become?

2003-12-17 - 8:53 p.m.
Wednesday evening.

Teenage boys should be kept in a barrel and fed through the bunghole until they're 18. At which point, the decision can be made to either let them out, or drive home the bung...

I've spent the last two evenings, along with R., glueing down little 1/4 in square pieces of colored paper onto J's bullshit art project. 4800 squares, I kid you not. And why are we doing this? Because this is 30% of J's grade, and he has done the grand total of 12 squares. The project is due tomorrow. We finished tonight.

J. doesn't give a rat's ass about school. He really doesn't. We are constantly getting calls saying he is not turning in assignments, not doing anything in class except screwing around. Every time we get these calls we have big yelling matches followed by days of homework to catch up assignments wherever possible. And we end up doing most of the work because he goes SO SLOWLY that if we didn't he would never finish in time.

If we don't do it, he'll be in high school until he's 30. If we DO do it, then he learns that other people will do stuff for him.

What the hell are we supposed to do? Will somebody please help me out with this one?

I am so sick of doing his friggin homework for him. And I know R is too. And of going through the third degree with him every night on what he did what he has to do, when is it due etc. etc. Especially when the answers we get are 'Dunno','Don't remember','Don't care','I guess','Who cares' or the ever popular shoulder shrug.

But if we let it slide, then he doesn't graduate, and we end up supporting his broke ass until we retire, because the only job he can get is flipping burgers at Waffle House.

He's permanently grounded. He won't do chores to earn back privileges. He will only do what we tell him to, when we tell him to, and then its half assed. Like every other teenager on the planet he assumes he can successfully get away with shit without us knowing about it, or knowing when he's lying. He just doesn't get that we were teenagers once and ALWAYS KNOW THE ANSWERS BEFORE WE ASK THE QUESTIONS. I've tried supportive encouragement, bribery, threats, discipline, loss of privileges.

I have not tried starving or beating but I am severely tempted.

So in the name of Big Daddy, Junior, Spooky and all the little angels, will someone PLEASE tell me what I'm supposed to DO with this kid?

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