Sunday ... Sunday

I enjoy that song about Sunday by the Beatles. Today is a welcome break from the hectic nature of the past 2 weeks.

I am sitting with my son while he is taking a break from home work. Most often homework for us is a huge fight. I negotiate with him until he does it. time for work, then time for play and so on. He is creating a comic and acting it out with sound. There might be a time when I have to get an umbrella because as he is acting it out he is also spewing spray when things explode in his story.

Now we are back to work reading and next to practice math. I am so aggravated because he is fighting me, finally I had to yell at him to focus. I feel horribly about this, but know sometimes its the only way I can get in to tune in to my channel. Now he is working independently. I truly dislike parts of the "No child left behind bill", http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml that has made our schools into competitive test taking locations for our kids. I wonder how my child will feel about learning when he gets to my age. I know it has increased federal funding for our schools and offered other educational opportunities to make sure everyone has a chance. The dislike relates to the PART of the bill.

Discipline in our house is admittedly a work in progress. Now that we are almost done with our daily reading and math practice I am definitely ready to crack open a nice red zin to have a glass and chill out. My Mom, (god rest her soul), was strict with my sibling and I. At that time hitting kids was a way of showing limits. Today it is not. You never know what damage could be done to a kid by doing the wrong type of punishment. I can say operand conditioning worked great
with my dog. Since humans can learn more than 100 words I think a better way to do it is positive discipline. I am trying this and it is helping click on the web page to view The Positive Discipline Method, http://www.positivediscipline.com/What_is_Positive_Discipline.html.

Well on to my next task as super frump: Its to make dinner for lumpy and dumpy.

Be happy and enjoy every moment of your life,

M