School is back in swing again and it seems we are calming down about things around here. Structure structure sturcture..
Brandon still won't do his homework, that is ok. I am learning this is his responsibility. NOt mine. It is hard to do however, he needs to understand that it is not just me or his father that are concerned about this. It is his and he needs to take the ownership and work with it. He is smart and he can do this. It will take lots of energy on his part, which we are trying to get him to learn now and understand this.
It is not easy, it is difficult.
However, what was really nice was that last night as we were driving home from church Brandon ask me a question about bedtime. I said that they would be going to be at 8:00 PM. Brandon looked at the dashboard of the van and said "it is 7:12 now, so I guess I have about 45 minutes. " YES YOU DO!!! he figured it out... and on his own. this is from the child earlier that set his phone up for 13 hours til bedtime at 4:30 pm.
Little improvements but they are there. I still will not leave him home by himself because I think he would just play video games and get lost and I would never get him to get out of the video mode and he will be angry. There is more to do than video games but he has to find them and he will.
As for Josh, he is trying to understand his brother, but as a brother goes... he is a brother and a pain in his side. He has trouble with him and I understand that but teaching him what to do is hard for a 11 year to grasp. Why can't he just do things etc etc. So from time to time Josh will challenge us in a very negative way to see if he can get attention. Then when he does, he is not happy.
Brandon still won't do his homework, that is ok. I am learning this is his responsibility. NOt mine. It is hard to do however, he needs to understand that it is not just me or his father that are concerned about this. It is his and he needs to take the ownership and work with it. He is smart and he can do this. It will take lots of energy on his part, which we are trying to get him to learn now and understand this.
It is not easy, it is difficult.
However, what was really nice was that last night as we were driving home from church Brandon ask me a question about bedtime. I said that they would be going to be at 8:00 PM. Brandon looked at the dashboard of the van and said "it is 7:12 now, so I guess I have about 45 minutes. " YES YOU DO!!! he figured it out... and on his own. this is from the child earlier that set his phone up for 13 hours til bedtime at 4:30 pm.
Little improvements but they are there. I still will not leave him home by himself because I think he would just play video games and get lost and I would never get him to get out of the video mode and he will be angry. There is more to do than video games but he has to find them and he will.
As for Josh, he is trying to understand his brother, but as a brother goes... he is a brother and a pain in his side. He has trouble with him and I understand that but teaching him what to do is hard for a 11 year to grasp. Why can't he just do things etc etc. So from time to time Josh will challenge us in a very negative way to see if he can get attention. Then when he does, he is not happy.
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