Monthly Archives: September 2015

I’ll beat you with this shovel

Heck of a title for this post. Last evening, my son stormed out of the house in anger. I waited about 20 minutes before going after him.  I thought it would give him time to cool down. Not to be. He started throwing things out of the cars, so I worked my way through them to lock the doors and make sure things were where they were supposed to be. As I got to the last one, he began threatening me. He had a basketball that he kept throwing down the street, so I took it and put it in the garage.  He went and got it.  So, I am ashamed to admit, I deflated the ball. I didn’t acknowledge him in any way during this period. I was working on moving a vintage sewing machine into our house, when he grabbed a shovel and threatened to beat me with

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therapist left, guess I can abuse my family again

Every Tuesday is family therapy day in our home. One of the things that we are being taught to do is ignore him and his behavior. As soon as the therapist left today, he started abusing mom verbally. I was at the grocery store when this happened. Evidently because we are instructed to ignore as many of his negative behaviors as possible, it is okay to abuse our family. I don’t understand. Don’t get me wrong, we are learning a lot of useful tips during family therapy, according to David we are supposed to ignore the verbal abuse. Because we are supposed to ignore parts of his behavior.  Evidently verbal abuse, at least according to David, should be ignored. We are supposed ignore him when he pretends to be a cat and pays no attention to the goings on during family time. Then when confronted about something he did or

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On teaching

Remember that time you called the teacher a “know nothing jerk who is the epitome of what is wrong with the education profession today”?  Sure some teachers shouldn’t be in the field, but it is your job to raise awareness and fight for your child’s rights, not to rub their nose in it.  Like it or not, the teacher, subconsciously, will impact your child in a way that can take years to undo.  All because of the things that you say. Look at me.  Eating my own words.  I was that parent. I don’t know of any educator who went into education with the mindset of “I want to see how many young minds I can destroy”. When it comes to the lives and education of our children, we need to meet half way.  Don’t give on following the law.  That should be a no-brainer.  If you absolutely can not

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