It's part of our "Sunday Night", we sit around the dining room table after dinner or gather later if there is an event and we pull up the family calendar online and we all compare schedules, with the boys (including dh, lol) writing down the weeks activities.
Why would you have to discipline? The kid ultimately has to decide if he wants good grades or not. I would certainly give such a kid some serious and repeated council, partly in the hope of making myself so tiresome to the kid that shaping up would seem less painful by comparison (so a form of stealth discipline, I grant you), but in the end the kid has to own it, IMO, one way or the other.
Because the original post that started the "three hours" discussion was about a mom spending 3-hours, hands-on, one-on-one, deeply involved with her child.
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It's part of our "Sunday Night", we sit around the dining room table after dinner or gather later if there is an event and we pull up the family calendar online and we all compare schedules, with the boys (including dh, lol) writing down the weeks activities.
PumpkinAngel
<<1. If both kids do homework from 5-8pm, where is there "6 hours" of help from mom? It is STILL a total of
PumpkinAngel
I don't think even a bright 9 year old can really realize how important certain kinds of discipline will be in adult life.
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