Anyone want to buy a used seven year old? He's cute, friendly, talkative (omg, is he talkative), brilliant, and affectionate. He's also prone to doing things that completely defy explanation
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LOL!! OMG, Kathy, your post made me laugh so hard! I mean, I know it's not funny because... you've got a hole in your couch!!!! and it'd drive me up the wall if it happened to me. But wow. Your son is certainly creative. McGyver, he is!
I sympathise with the mom. And the couch. ;)
And I'm actually glad I don't have a couch in my classroom because I'm sure a couple of my pupils could actually think of doing something like that! *freaks out*
But wow. Your son is certainly creative. McGyver, he is!
I told my husband this was one of those stories that would be told forever more in our family. "Remember the time Donny cut a hole in the couch?" Is it terrible that I'm already practicing the talk I'm going to have with his future wife about how she needs to be the mature, guiding force that helps contain his insanity genius?
At least this time he didn't try to blame his sister. When he snuck into the basement a few years ago to obtain huge concrete nails, then tried to bang them into his wall "to hang pictures", he hid the evidence (broken plaster covered with paper drawings), then told me, when I found the nails a few weeks later, that "I think I saw Amy playing with something like that a while back ... she must have hid them in my room to get me in trouble." That was at four. Good God, save me when he becomes a teenager!
Lord help us should all these boys somehow meet each other. The world as we know it would be doomed.
I can totally sympathize as back when we had our sectional, my son decided to play airplane pilot with his diecast Matchbox airplane. Only he decided to be a really, really bad pilot. He crashed into (read: stabbed) the couch about 6 or 7 times in the middle of the seat.
*rotfl at the cartoon* (Is there a rotf crying? 'Cause it would so fit right now.)
I think our two couches need to get together at the bar and drown their sorrows. They can tell all the other couches their woes and show off their battle scars, until the bartender (a nice Barcalounger, perhaps?) finally cuts them off and calls them a cab.
(I must say, I love his logic that he shouldn't be punished because punishment won't fix the couch. He should be in law school.
Believe me, that was my first thought, too. "Geez Louise, that is way too logical of an argument for a 1st grader." And, of course, he's right, and he makes me wonder if he's been reading the copy of "How To Talk So Kids Will Learn" that I got from the library recently, because that's basically what they say, that most punishment is just punitive and you should be focusing on how the kid can take responsibility and solve the problem himself and learn from the mistake ...
And then I remembered my poor innocent couch and came back with, "No, you're being punished to make an impression so you'll REMEMBER NOT TO DO ANYTHING SO STUPID AGAIN!"
(And then I reverted back to seven myself by answering every one of his "It's not fair!" whine with a "It's not fair that I have a hole in my couch!" whine of my own. ;))
Oh, yeah, I so agree with the "No, you're being punished to make an impression so you'll REMEMBER NOT TO DO ANYTHING SO STUPID AGAIN!" logic.
In fact...that's the only reason I remember ever being punished.
I know it's not comforting in the face of your holey couch (any possibility of getting a cover, btw - I found some cool ones at Bed Bath and Beyond on sale...), but clearly this level of logic and brains and ingenuity (in getting out of punishment, not in cutting the couch in the first place) are going to lead to great things with this boy. If he survives childhood - meaning you don't kill him first. :-P
he has decided that he shouldn't be punished at all because "it's not going to fix the couch" and "you're just being mean" and "it's all your fault that I'm not getting my homework done more quickly because your punishment is making me cry".
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I sympathise with the mom. And the couch. ;)
And I'm actually glad I don't have a couch in my classroom because I'm sure a couple of my pupils could actually think of doing something like that! *freaks out*
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I told my husband this was one of those stories that would be told forever more in our family. "Remember the time Donny cut a hole in the couch?" Is it terrible that I'm already practicing the talk I'm going to have with his future wife about how she needs to be the mature, guiding force that helps contain his insanity genius?
At least this time he didn't try to blame his sister. When he snuck into the basement a few years ago to obtain huge concrete nails, then tried to bang them into his wall "to hang pictures", he hid the evidence (broken plaster covered with paper drawings), then told me, when I found the nails a few weeks later, that "I think I saw Amy playing with something like that a while back ... she must have hid them in my room to get me in trouble." That was at four. Good God, save me when he becomes a teenager!
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I can totally sympathize as back when we had our sectional, my son decided to play airplane pilot with his diecast Matchbox airplane. Only he decided to be a really, really bad pilot. He crashed into (read: stabbed) the couch about 6 or 7 times in the middle of the seat.
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I think our two couches need to get together at the bar and drown their sorrows. They can tell all the other couches their woes and show off their battle scars, until the bartender (a nice Barcalounger, perhaps?) finally cuts them off and calls them a cab.
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I agree w/Kae, Kathy, your post made me crack up. So funny.
But poor you! And poor couch!
(I must say, I love his logic that he shouldn't be punished because punishment won't fix the couch. He should be in law school. {g})
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Believe me, that was my first thought, too. "Geez Louise, that is way too logical of an argument for a 1st grader." And, of course, he's right, and he makes me wonder if he's been reading the copy of "How To Talk So Kids Will Learn" that I got from the library recently, because that's basically what they say, that most punishment is just punitive and you should be focusing on how the kid can take responsibility and solve the problem himself and learn from the mistake ...
And then I remembered my poor innocent couch and came back with, "No, you're being punished to make an impression so you'll REMEMBER NOT TO DO ANYTHING SO STUPID AGAIN!"
(And then I reverted back to seven myself by answering every one of his "It's not fair!" whine with a "It's not fair that I have a hole in my couch!" whine of my own. ;))
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In fact...that's the only reason I remember ever being punished.
I know it's not comforting in the face of your holey couch (any possibility of getting a cover, btw - I found some cool ones at Bed Bath and Beyond on sale...), but clearly this level of logic and brains and ingenuity (in getting out of punishment, not in cutting the couch in the first place) are going to lead to great things with this boy. If he survives childhood - meaning you don't kill him first. :-P
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he has decided that he shouldn't be punished at all because "it's not going to fix the couch" and "you're just being mean" and "it's all your fault that I'm not getting my homework done more quickly because your punishment is making me cry".
With that kind of logic, he's a future lawyer!
And boy, does he sound like mine!
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