Thanks Deb. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found any chores around the house that he doesn't like to do, because he likes cleaning so much. He enjoys it all because it's calming and soothing, no matter how yucky the job. He's backwards in that regard. But schoolwork is his enemy, especially writing and math, so that's why I picked those.
The money thing, I did warn him last school year that I would do that next time, but it's surely not fresh in his mind, so a warning for next time. Thanks!
The first month of school "honeymoon phase" is over. Back to reality. This was his 2nd rough week, but first out of school suspension this school year. He partially did the right thing though, so I do have to acknowledge that. When the kids were lining up to come in from recess, a boy shoved Tyler out of line and then punched him (I have no idea whether Tyler did something to instigate this), Tyler shoved the boy back and then went to get 2 adults to help. It has taken all these years for him to finally remember to go get help and not just start punching back, so that part is good, but where he went wrong is not stepping back to let the adults do their jobs and handle it, he still jumped in and punched the kid.
It's a tough call. On one hand, you don't want your kid to be a punching bag and labeled a tattler by the other kids, but on the other hand, rules are rules because if this happened as adults, they'd both go to jail. Hard lessons.
all!!
& 2nd she needed to go through the canal to get to Alaska & Hawaii 
