Brenna is really testing my patience. Ok, so I don't have any patience left. Sometimes I just don't know how to handle her anymore. She can be so stubborn. Like yesterday. I came home around 6:30, they were playing outside. Fine, asked them if they did their homework. Of course not....why would I expect that hubby actually would remind them? So Sidney sits down and does her homework. Brenna asks me to sit down with her and help her, which I don't mind. So we sit down and she has 3 pages to do for Kindergarten. One is basic subtraction. 3-1=? She tells me the right answer but then proceeds to just fool around on the paper, writes the number the wrong way, erases it, writes it again, erases it, so this goes on a few times. I remind her a couple of times " Brenna, you need to do it nicely, otherwise I will just take it away and you won't get credit for it."
Guess what....yep, I ended up taking it away and she went to school without homework today, which doesn't seem to bother her that much. She was upset last night, but man...........I just lost it, I'm pulling my hair out. Was I ever that stubborn? At that age? Not one of my prouder mommy moments I have to admit. Why can't I just be serene and calm and talk quietly to her? Yeah right.........................
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There was many a time when dd was that age that she would be rolling around the floor under the chair during homework time. Oh and it was always a game to throw pencils on the floor. It is the age and the fact that they're expecting so much more of kids who barely have an attention span yet or can sit still for longer than 15 minutes at a time.
Making it a game might be good. If she does it fast then maybe she can stay up an extra 10 minutes or get extra dessert.
It DOES get better, but really not until Sidney's age.
My little guy seems separated at birth from Brenna....Thank God for alcohol. I'm really frightened for first grade with him.....
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