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15 Year olds - Should Parental Abuse be mandatory?15 Year olds - Should Parental Abuse be mandatory?

2004-02-09 - 7:36 a.m.
So Monday morning rises, sloughing of the remnants of a weekend spent pottering and tinkering.

I pottered a lot this weekend. I fixed a lot of things on the site that needed fixing, and started adding more content, although a lot of it was behind the scenes and is not immediately noticeable.

We also bought keyed locks for our bedroom door and the temple room, since J. had recently acquired more of R's undergarments and one of her ceremonial robes.

Tell me not to give up on the child, by all means. I'm all ears. But he simply does not give a rat's ass about school, does not care that he is grounded, refuses to get into any kind of routine or share the burden of chores. He will not study in the evening beyond what is absolutely essential and will not be bribed or cajoled into doing otherwise. He claims he has had no homework since school started, but clearly that's bullshit since he's missed several assignments in Spanish and Algebra (The two subjects we were able to obtain information on just last week). He has D-/F in both of them. He has not done one thing in the past year he's been here that isn't half-assed. Even his one pleasure, computer games (when he has access to them), the first thing he does is go pull the cheat codes off the web. He has no interest in challenges of any kind. It is meaningless to tell him not to do something, since he'll do it anyway, then claim 'he forgot' he wasn't supposed to. He eats continually, and sucks down 2 litre bottles of coke like they're...well...like they're 2 litre bottles of coke actually. So we have password protected all of the computers, and are putting locks on the doors, hiding snacks so we can ration them out (enough of this feast or famine bullshit), buying cans instead of 2 litre bottles and instituting random searches of his backpack. He 'loses' progress reports, although since we are supposed to sign them I suspect he is actually forging the signature and handing them back, otherwise we'd hear from the teachers.

So Fuck it. He can do what the hell he wants. As soon as he turns 18, or drops out or is Expelled, he is out the door, unless he passes High school of his own accord, which is becoming seriously unlikely.

I am not going to waste time and emotion giving a shit when he clearly doesn't.

Happy Monday

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