Daughter to Mama: GO AWAY
I am a meanie, when it comes to Daughter. She is a very sweet, cunning little weasel, and incredibly gifted when it comes to weaseling out of things she doesn`t like to do.
Homework is one of them. She needs to be prodded with a sharp stick.
At the beginning of the year, she told me she wanted to join "The Homework Club" with her friends. Some of the teachers at the school are there everyday, maintaining a quiet classroom in which kids can do their homework and ask for help if needed. It sounded great, and I didn`t even care that parents were charged the after-school daycare rate of four bucks per hour -- I think that`s very reasonable, and it seemed like a small price to pay to get Daughter to do her homework.
Then a few weeks ago, her teacher told me her homework had been "spotty" recently -- some was done well, some was done not so well, and a little bit wasn`t even done at all.
"That`s it -- no more Homework Club until you do your homework!" I told her. "I`m willing to pay for Homework Club, but not for Social Club."
Daughter buckled down, but she has missed a few assignments, and until her teacher gives me the all's well signal, she`s not going back.
So yesterday she asked me, "Mama, when are you going back to work fulltime?"
"Well, I`m going to talk to my old company and see if I can do something for them, because I`d like to go back fulltime when Little Son starts kindergarten next year, and maybe even before then if I can."
"Why not go back now?" she asked.
I didn`t say anything. I guessed where this was going.
"Doesn`t our school cost money? Don`t we need the money? Don`t we need to save for college? Don`t we need to pay for our house in Tokyo?"
"And I suppose if I went back, you could go to the Homework Club everyday, right?"
"I`d have to go, if you worked," she sighed. "But I don`t mind. Really!"
Yep, she`s an evil genious, all right: trying to get points for doing something she wants to do, anyway.
Too bad her Mama`s even more evil, and can see right through her.
Heh heh heh....
Homework is one of them. She needs to be prodded with a sharp stick.
At the beginning of the year, she told me she wanted to join "The Homework Club" with her friends. Some of the teachers at the school are there everyday, maintaining a quiet classroom in which kids can do their homework and ask for help if needed. It sounded great, and I didn`t even care that parents were charged the after-school daycare rate of four bucks per hour -- I think that`s very reasonable, and it seemed like a small price to pay to get Daughter to do her homework.
Then a few weeks ago, her teacher told me her homework had been "spotty" recently -- some was done well, some was done not so well, and a little bit wasn`t even done at all.
"That`s it -- no more Homework Club until you do your homework!" I told her. "I`m willing to pay for Homework Club, but not for Social Club."
Daughter buckled down, but she has missed a few assignments, and until her teacher gives me the all's well signal, she`s not going back.
So yesterday she asked me, "Mama, when are you going back to work fulltime?"
"Well, I`m going to talk to my old company and see if I can do something for them, because I`d like to go back fulltime when Little Son starts kindergarten next year, and maybe even before then if I can."
"Why not go back now?" she asked.
I didn`t say anything. I guessed where this was going.
"Doesn`t our school cost money? Don`t we need the money? Don`t we need to save for college? Don`t we need to pay for our house in Tokyo?"
"And I suppose if I went back, you could go to the Homework Club everyday, right?"
"I`d have to go, if you worked," she sighed. "But I don`t mind. Really!"
Yep, she`s an evil genious, all right: trying to get points for doing something she wants to do, anyway.
Too bad her Mama`s even more evil, and can see right through her.
Heh heh heh....
posted by L. at 11:21 AM
4 Comments:
Clever little one, isn't she? Next, she'll be saying that Japanese school costs too much and you should stop sending her - no, really, she doesn't mind sacrificing! It's okay! ;)
*stifles a laugh* reminds me of myself! ;)
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree?
Girls a so scary. I brace myself for battle everyday before I wake my daughter.
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