The New Year--2008

Its been well over 8 months since I have posted anything. Where do you begin in this situation, anyway?? I have managed to keep the drama in my own life to a minimum. I figure I have enough of that at work.

My son started kindergarten this past fall. That has been a trip. In early December, I came upon an envelope stating "To the Parents of D" in very "teacher-like" handwriting. I open it up and it is a "Behavior Plan Sheet" from Dagan's principal that was from two weeks before. Somehow, it had gotten buried in his book bag and I never bothered to really dig. So of course, I felt like a real loser of a parent--not only did my kid get into trouble at school, enough to go to the principal's office but I didn't notice the note until two weeks later. Apparently, when a child gets in trouble at my son's school, they have to do one of these sheets where they describe the bad behavior and how they will change that behavior--through a drawing! There stood a stick figure with his hand sticking out with one little finger sticking up. My child gave another child "the bird" at lunch. Of course, I run to D and asked what happened. He said that this little girl pointed at him and he responded by "pointing" back at her. He didn't even realize that he had done what all of us adults know as flipping someone off...but now he knows!! I asked him if he was frightened about having to go to the principal's office and he said "no". Oh the beauty of blissful ignorance. Well, we got the "first trip to the principal's office" out of the way. If I was a bit more motivated, I would scan that "Behavior Plan Sheet" and post it on here....but for now you will just have to imagine it.