The boys have been spending the weekends in the village this last month. They have been gone for the last three days and I am missing them. Tomorrow starts a new week of homework patrol. After three days of fun, they will probably be wild. We may be ready to send them back to the village. By Friday, we have them somewhat under control. I am working on incentive charts to help them listen and learn. Sometimes my incentives are not as strong as their wills.
One funny episode happened last Friday. One of the eight year old boys came home announcing he had to memorize a poem. So we opened the book to the poem, which read “I’ve got a very pretty doll.” Bogdan’s eyes bugged out and he said, “Oh man. I am not going to learn that poem.” After much laughing and teasing about his having a very pretty doll, he did make some attempt to learn it. I will see tomorrow if he has or will. Couldn’t they find a better poem for both boys and girls to learn? Eight lines describing your pretty doll? Oh man!
