I've turned into one of those mums

When a teacher has to call a parent because of their son's poor behaviour, the parents are usually shocked to hear their son's actions.  "But he is always a gentleman at home, so helpful and polite."  This week, I was called in to see DS1's teacher and had to listen in horror to what he had done on the playground to one of his friends.  Apparently, he had his friend up against a brick wall and was punching him.  Now, both boys take karate together, and I can only hope that they were acting out their karate fantasies, and were not actually fighting with malice, as they are best friends after all.  Anyway, DS1 was put on formal warning, which lasts a week.  I will speak to his Sensei and a lecture coming from him will get through better than any number of tellings off or quiet, kind, encouraging chats about how to best behave.

To top it off, DS1 is also not completing his work during lessons and needs constant prodding to get on with tasks.  OMG, I cannot believe I may have one of those children!  So I asked his teacher if she would let us have his workbook for the weekend and we would see that he caught up.  He has 16 pages of half finished work to catch up on.  We wasn't allowed to watch TV or do anything fun until it was done.  I was very careful not to give him too much attention (I just gave him instructions on what he had to do on each page, and then went to sit in the living room with DS2 to cuddle and watch TV) because the teacher is afraid that he will prefer to do the work at home.  Anyway, he managed to catch up on all the work within about an hour in total.  This could be an interesting term.

DH and I are sitting next to each other in the living room, each with a laptop on our lap and the X-factor on the TV, but muted because they are all so horrendous, but I feel it is my duty to know who Cher and Wagner are because all the kids talk about them at school.

Nice day with the fandamily today.  Went to the kids' swimming lessons today for want of anything better to do having had my back cracked and my hip re-located after a sofa-sitting injury last night that left me in agony and unable to sit through my friend's amateur theatre performance.  I haven't been able to sit down for more than 10 minutes at a time today without it stiffening up, so I was very tired after a trip to the park with the kids and a long walk.  Luckily napping doesn't hurt my hip too badly although I can't sleep very well due to the discomfort.

Must consult on letter with DH
Night!