Damn That's Sweet

My most recent "am I failing as a parent?!?" moment was a doozy this time round. Micah has been having a very hard time adjusting to first grade. Way to much sitting and a lot of new rules he has to keep track of. Add to that his struggle with reading (not bad, he just hasn't had his "Ah ha!" moment yet) and the tumultuous schedule at home to make for a very distracted/forgetful/struggling little boy.

Now, most of this couldn't be helped. We knew it would be a hard season to begin with and tried to work through it best we could (and we didn't do to shabby if I say so myself). But last week Micah tried to lie to his teacher while being caught trying to deceive us. (He had to have his card turned to blue *duh, duh, duuuhhh* and at the end of the day they have to write what color they were on in their home note books so the parent can see. He put yellow instead and the teacher caught him).

The other things going on, like getting to blue in the first place, are not so big a deal when you look at the bigger picture. But the lying needed to be dealt with. So that night me and Shaun talked through what we needed to do and decided he would not  get to go trick or treating as a consequence for lying. I bawled. Then we called Micah into the room and talked to him about it and about the consequence. When we were done I cried again. I think I cried something like 4 times over that weekend. It totally sucked!!!