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This observation is probably gonna take me permanently out of the running for Father of the Year, but it's amazing how much easier it is to deal with unruly kids after you've had a good stiff drink

I pick up Robert from school today... Teacher says another teacher wrote Robert up to the principal to send him home. She says she intercepted it and buried it. But warned that the lunch room teacher has gone past the breaking point with Robert...

Principal visits and now threats of expulsion??? In the 5th week of Kindergarten???

Do they have continuation school for K? Does he end up a high risk client of Dr. Rahn?

I was nearly in tears driving him home. Maybe I do need a Blue Agave Slushie.... Help too with the shoulder pain from the stupid stunt he pulled on me Sunday.

Homeschool!

It's not like you're doing anything else...

I had two childhood friends who did home schooling ... one got a four year scholarship for U of Chicago at 15 ... became an Actuary. His father was an Anthropologist who traveled a lot ... no mother in the picture. (When I "found" him 30+ years later, he was desperately unhappy ... because he had wanted to become a Dancer!)

My other friend bicycled across Europe when he was 14 (wih his older dyke motorcycle courier half sister), raced go-karts (his older brother won the German F-Vee National Championship as a 19 year old american long hair, 1971), became a skate boarder and Ice Climber in Colorado ... and then won a special two year Rhodes Scholarship (Classic at Oxford), followed by a Fullbright Scholarship (Classics in Rome and Athens), got his doctorate at Berkley and is now a professor at USB. His father died in a climbing accident when Bob was around 13. Dad was a renowned Professor of Political Science. Did things like help set-up the future government of Czechoslovakia. Held seats at Princeton, U of Edinburgh, and Heidelberg.

Home schooling can totally work ... if the kid has Discipline. Bob would work ferociously for a few months, then we'd go skiing for a month.

Send him to Boarding School - that's what my parents did

Actually, I loved it.

I did not live at home from the age of 8 to 18. When I finally did move back in with my parents at 18, it was quite the shock. It made me work hard and buy my own place when I was 19, so I could move out

Robert Puertas wrote:Homeschool!

It's not like you're doing anything else...

But I want them to be smart and succeed

I was basically "self-schooled". I liked to learn and sought out my own things to study. Robert's problems are discipline and respect and social interaction. His academic side is pretty good. He loves his homework, loves his workbooks, and learns fast. I'm disappointed by his lack of reading by now, but he memorizes his sight word lists immediately. His math and numbers stuff is great. This weekend he was counting to a thousand. And he's doing long chains of addition and subtraction. He's beginning to understand basic multiplication and division. His memory and reasoning is amazing. Teacher says he's near the top on learning skills, no issues there at all. And he follows directions and figures out new things like their first visits to the computer lab. And he can be a leader their helping other kids get it. So, tons of wonderful things. And he can be very sweet. And as crazy and wild as he can be, put the helmet on his head and say go and he shows how hard he can focus and take direction when karting.....

But, then his discipline problems at school are really serious. He's doing his hide and seek thing and thinks its fun to put the whole school in a lockdown. He enjoys doing things to get sent to the principal. He says she's beautiful. "She's tall and skinny and good looking not like you and mommy." Yesterday he said before school he wanted to get kicked out of school so he could come home. Sure enough he did, though his teacher intercepted that and kept him from going to the principal again. He got sent to another class for time out and said he loved that class and was going to try and get sent there again. He's working every angle and feels totally in control.

*runs off to doctor to get the snip*

BTW-The principal is majorly hot... So, at least the kid has good taste.

Steve Ekstrand wrote: Robert's problems are discipline and respect and social interaction.

Where could he have picked up those traits?

He takes after his mother???

Boarding school, or the threat of it ... including a visit to check one out ... might be the best solution to saving Robert & Family from major serious issues down the road. Imagine Max if he hadn't been sent to boarding school!

My Max goes to a college that is 75% women (seems more like 80%+) ... usually his classes have 2, 3 guys and 8 to 12 gals. His Psych class has 12 guys and 3 women. Yup ... knock out looker teacher!