Homework?
My boys are in high school. A private school. They are very active with sports - school runners club three morning a week, school sport training one afternoon a week, plus the game, sports training outside of school twice a week plus the game. One day a week is free of activities, not counting weekends that can be full or empty
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I'm trying to get him to do drama. Luckily their school does drama as a required subject. He has the ability, but not the like, or the confidence. That will happen next term. I've talked to his teacher and have asked that he not get away with being props handler, or prompter, which is what he did last year and suckered his teacher in to letting him not do anything at all. Smart kid :P
Summer job might be the answer. This summer they will be officially old enough to work. My other son already has does a paper run. Okay I help him and do about half of it - transporting 350 papers needs a car - but he delivers his share over a 2 hour period. Every Tuesday, rain or shine. And he's the one who has to spend more time doing homework.
I had thought that one son having money to spend would have prompted the other to think about working, but so far no. Maybe when the Pokemon DS games come out here soon and one can buy and the other can't :P
The boys already have a job offered to them, An uncle runs a gardenning/landscaping business and has said this coming christmas period they can work. It will be painful for me - he lives about 30 mins the other side of town, but I'll work it out. This uncle loves/adores the boys, but won't take any shit or slackness from them. And he'll pay them a fair pay.
I sure hope it works.
Come to think of it - that first officialy job did heaps for me too.
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