A late start at mylot. Tiring day.
By marguicha
@marguicha (215405)
Chile
March 31, 2016 6:40pm CST
I came home at % or so P.M. from my daughter´s house. I was very tired.
I taught Sofía her reading lesson, but she is a lot more stubborn at her own house. I had to tell her that unless she read a sentence (she can do it) she would not see Netflix. I think chidren have many things today that keep them away from their duties.
Then my daughter told me that she was very mad a Vicente (12). Until now, he was an A student. Now he is "bored" and his grades went down to C. My daughter yells and nothing comes out of it. I told her to confiscate the 2 things he loves most. Last weekend, at the beach, he read 3 books. Each one had around 400 pages. The rest of the time he plays with my daughter´s tablet.
I guess that a boy who can read a thousand pages and more in 2 days, can read 4 pages in his history book to learn a bit about the men in the caves. So, stufies are first and play comes later.
I know that I´m an old witch, but I love them. All I ask is that they do what they are capable of.
Now, after a 2 hour nap alone at home, I can finally do some mylotting. Home sweet home!
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
31 Mar 16
I told him so this evening. Then I showed him that if he had just read his asignement, he would have gotten a good grade. Fortunatly he readily agrred.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
1 Apr 16
@marguicha thats so g ood that he understands could be he is really bright and bored an needs to be moved to a grade above we had that problem with our son who had a high IQ we put him in a private school for gifted kids and he really bloomed
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
1 Apr 16
@Hatley My daughter is taking him every Saturday to special courses the University has for gifter children. But it is difficult to be the smallest in a class, only because of intellifence. I was taken up 2 grades at school and it made me miserable. The other girls, bigger, bullied me.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
1 Apr 16
You cannot blame today' kids. They have such temptations that lessons are truly a bore. Anyway what can those marks bring them unless they pursue their interest and search for their aptitude and go after it. I think parents should be on the look out too.
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
1 Apr 16
I didn´t like school much either. But I knew that I had to do my homework. Or else.
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
2 Apr 16
@allknowing I was afraid my parents would not let me go to the Saturday evening parties
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
1 Apr 16
@marguicha No one likes it but yes, I too did my homework for fear of being punished
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
1 Apr 16
It is definitely important to read and learn history.
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