Now that I am finally getting around the house ok (LONG STORY), I happened to check in on the Google Classroom progress for Thing 1. Would you know, this child has SEVERAL missing assignments in Math??? As I look further, CORRECTION, several missing assignments in Math AND ELA! #SayWhatNow When I asked this child how this happened, she said “I don’t know!”
Now I know I can be special, but “I don’t know” isn’t something you want to say to me. I mean, you have a choice…do it…or don’t do it! And I get it, this e-learning business is no joke. Kids are having to rapidly learn stuff just so that curriculums can be met. I get it. I don’t agree with it, but I get it. I have empowered both of my girls to come to me or their teachers (or both) if they are feeling overwhelmed. At least I thought I did. After seeing the amount of work to be done, I had to revisit this.
Thing 1 and I had a good talk about the real reason this work wasn’t done. She recognized that she has so much work to do and it gets overwhelming so quickly she doesn’t have time to send a smoke signal. This is where I come in because the last thing my child will do is battle anything alone! #TheDevilIsALie
My big kid will start using her task notebook I gave her to write down all assignments for the day and their due dates. Then, as the day progresses, she will check off what she has completed. All of this will be done based on assignment priority. If it’s due in 2 days, work on the ones due today first. In addition, she and I will carve out 30 minutes a day to recap what is in the notebook and what is still outstanding. This should help keep both of us on track. I realized I dropped the ball here too…
Backstory…my big one is an overachiever like me. She will spend soooo much time on an assignment because she wants to make sure it is right and the way she wants it. #Perfectionist She has been spending more time online than I’d like, but she gets super upset if I stop her. So, I entertained it. #NoMore She is too young to deal with the stresses that life will more than likely bring her in her career. It is my job now to keep my baby a baby for as long as possible. She will have so much time to be an adult, but not much to be a kid. #Changes
Thing 1 and I will pull a late night tonight and will get up early tomorrow to hammer at it again. All of this as a lesson to her of the importance of giving her smoke signals when necessary. And it’s a lesson to me that my child hasn’t quite mastered the smoke signal and I need to be by her a lot more until she does. I pray these changes work, but if they don’t, we will flex and adapt until they do. #FailFast #TrialAndError
Oh…she’s still grounded for a week! She has told us she was done with her homework far too many days and played Roblox as a result. #AllActionsYieldConsequences
