Brandon

I'm beginning to wonder how much use all of my poking and prodding is. I try so hard to instill in Brandon what is right and what is wrong and that everything has a consequence. Unfortunately its not sinking in. Sure, now he knows that the line has been drawn where if he gets sent home - he gets grounded. So now he reserves himself enough that he doesn't get sent home. He apperently still gets in enough trouble however, to get sent to the principals office - where he gets to play with Mr. Potatohead and Lego and thus miss his class. How the hell am I supposed to get him to catch up the full grade level he's behind when he can just throw a fit and go play.

And then there is our homework time. Trying to get him to think for himself is so painful. He'll do anything I tell him to but to get him to come up with a sentence on his own using his spelling words - its so frustrating.