Recently I've been telling anyone who asks that home schooling Luke by himself is a breeze. It usually takes us an hour to get through everything and then we have the rest of the day to read books, go on errands, take naps, etc. Well, today I have been proved wrong!
Before everything fell apart, Luke was being funny and cute and saying things like, "Can I just do this page when I am smarter?" After awhile though, he kept repeating the same phrase over and over again from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Something about Tootles. I had to send him to the stairs for a timeout twice, and the last time he wouldn't be quiet. He kept screaming, "Mommy I am quiet!" over and over again. The next step - his room for 1 hour. I knew there was going to be resistance.
He finally did go up the stairs after I threatened to call Joel who could easily come home to administer some discipline. But the screaming continued, punctuated with, "You're the baddest Mommy ever! Mean, mean Mommy!" I'm not taking it too personally since he regularly changes who is the "baddest person in the house". I'm sure he will be onto someone else soon. The reward of all of this? An hour where I can read and rest on the couch. I wanted to record this in writing before I get older and look back to say how the kids were always so good, they never gave me any troubles :)
You go girl!
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