I have a 9yr old step daughter who consistantly gets in trouble at school. At least every other day she gets a discipline slip from school for talking too much, cheating on tests, not doing work, not obeying the rules after being told several times to do so. She hates homework (as most kids her age do) but will sit at a table for literally hours, picking at lint, fiddling with her pencil, and every other thing you can do other than homework. She gets into trouble far more than anyone else in her class.
The problem is that we have no consequences that she cares about. If she is banned from TV/video games, she has a little sister, cats, and other toys to play with. Even when she has been banned from all of the above, it can only last for one day out of the week because of the custody schedule with her mom. There is not one full day out of the week we have her so any banning of toys etc... ends when she goes to mom's house. Mom sucks at discipline and doesn't approve of spanking.
2007-01-09
12:16:38
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Erin H
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