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Scarlett took a shower while I cooked dinner.  

She sat at the table, hair washed and uncombed, and informed me "Oh by the way! Our chorus concert is tonight!"

"What?"

"Mom, I gave you the blue paper to sign the other day!"

"Um. No, you didn't."

"I didn't?"

"So what time is the concert?"

"Seven."

I look at the clock, it's 6:55. 

"Oh well."

"But it's a hundred points! My final grade!"

"That's too bad. Isn't it?"
 

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[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

Good for you.

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

A "teachable moment."

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

I hope so.

[padiwack.livejournal.com]

I KNOW so. She will have to make sure to write a note...post it on the fridge or whatever. Hey, she has to understand that you have a kabillion other responsibilites- she is old enough to be responsible to remind you (ahead of time!)

Good job, Momma.

"Responsibility educates" ~ Wendel Phillips

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

What is really starting to eat at me is this is yet another reason WHY she should not be passing this grade. Granted, this is not a credited class, but it burns my ass when administration shrugs off her marks in uncredited classes - despite the fact that they are a PRIME example of why she's doing so poorly in all the other classes.

God. I'm SO sick of this shit. Honestly. Just sick of it.

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

I HATE it when the kids do that! Hate hate hate LOATHE!!

[retro-rider55.livejournal.com]

-and we were born, what: 35, 50 - ?

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Now Stewart, snidery isn't necessary.

[retro-rider55.livejournal.com]

Now that the shoe's on the other foot, that's merely what I say to remind myself in times of exasperation that children aren't a species native to another planet. Just as 'we' were (now that we've turned into 'Them') when we were young. That coupled with the fact of my father constantly forgetting, or ignoring that we're not born 40.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

I do a LOT of reminding myself how it felt to be eleven, or twelve, or in junior high, etc. It helps understand her moods, but it doesn't really help me tolerate them. lol I remember my anger escalating through my teens into my twenties when I literally had to fight my urge to kill my mother. And I wonder who will protect Scarlett from me when she gets to be that age, because now I know that feeling was mutual.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. It's burned my ass so damned many times, but this time... I don't know. It's a small symptom of a huge problem that I've been wrestling with for months now. Mentally I'm almost at "give-up" stage.

[reallyamermaid.livejournal.com]

No wonder her grades are so poor. Hell NO you're not rushing around like that. What did she think was going to happen? I would honestly ask her that question.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

She didn't think, that's the whole point with her. She manages to put everything out of her mind except her latest book, or crush. Or her latest video game. She was relying on me to remember something that she hadn't actually told me.

[heart-songs.livejournal.com]

At some point kids have to learn responsibility for their own actions or inactions. How longhas she had to tell you about this concert and how long has she known wha part of her grade this would count? This is a tough but very necessary lesson for her to learn.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

I doubt she knew about the date or time before Monday. On the school's website the concert is still listed as "date to be announced".

[amber-rose-x.livejournal.com]

WTF? Seems like they are not exactly setting a good example!

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

They're setting a HORRIBLE example. They haven't followed her Independent Education Plan at all this year, and I've never had a satisfactory exchange of words with her chorus teacher.

[retro-rider55.livejournal.com]

But does her condition manifest itself in, uhm, absentmindedness?

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Gee - sometimes!

[slytherinsheirx.livejournal.com]

Yup. She'll learn from this, hopefully.

I always made a point of handing stuff to the folks way before just so I knew I'd done it.

What will happen to the little munchkin now re: grades and stuff? Retake?

Good job =) Scarlett needs to learn, and boy she will.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what's going to happen. If the school has their way she will go on to the next grade.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

WOW!

I'm not sure I would have had the guts.

But you did just teach her that momma cannot bail her out of all the trouble she gets into.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Had the guts to what? There was literally nothing I could do. It was five til, her hair was in ropes and she was wearing pajamas. We hadn't eaten a bite, and the school is 20 minutes away. By the time we arrived even if she'd combed and dressed in the car, the concert would have been almost over. As I sat there it didn't even dawn on me not to "let" her go. lol

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

I probably still would have tried.

That's what I'm saying.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. Yeah, I'm not so much with the trying. I think my mom might have as well. But honestly I am ready to give up, so it's good that this is the last week of school.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

That bad huh?

Is any of this my fault with the books and such?

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Come ON! No, of course this has nothing to do with books. Believe me, if you hadn't sent books, she would be carrying home books from school and "losing" them on the floor of her room. (Only to be found six months later. I'm still finding books from her elementary school library.)

She has been reading the May Bird series again (x3 or x4) And she brags about having the third book in the series "even though you can't buy it here in West Virginia yet!" "Cause my mom knows this guy in NYC who does publishing!" lol

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to make sure I did not create a distraction.

So I'm good.

I'm just trying to do right by you and the munchkin.

:)

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

You are QUITE good. In fact, you and Lisa are GREAT.