My child… what can I say about my eldest boy that I haven’t already lamented over? He’s almost reached my meager height. Has finally succumbed to his mother’s ranting over his hair and gotten a hair cut. Now… now it seems he has fallen back into his “Don’t wanna do my homework,” slump.

The school has just instituted an online grades system so I can check up on his grades, much to his chagrin and Gameboy playing detriment. I can pop online (when I can get online) and see that he hasn’t turned in 8 (yes that is the number between 7 and 9) of his assignments in the last few days and is now pulling grades that would make his brothers laugh and jeer. (and they have!)

He gets so bored, so easily. They had state math tests on Tuesday. The child finished at 10:30 a.m. most of the rest of the class finished around two – sheesh. And Friday last, they took a different math test. He scored the highest in his class.

What to do. What to do.

He recently quit Scouts – he advanced to Boy Scouts from Cub Scouts and missed the first meeting – my fault, I forgot – it was at a different time. Then decided he didn’t want to continue after all as it is a self-paced, self-recorded progression. He didn’t want to do it. I didn’t mind so much, he had expressed interest in signing up for band – though he was supposed to go and audition the different instruments to see what he like and felt comfortable with. Well… said tall child of mine informs me last night he doesn’t think he’s interested in that either.

Hmm… I’m gonna have to figure out something for him to do – otherwise he’s gonna drive everyone nuts.

First order of business – GET THOSE GRADES UP – and since he has been grounded from everything electronic, he will work on it pretty quick.

Note: the harshest punishment (according to him) was when he was grounded from the remote control – can you imagine a tall child being subjected to Blues Clues and Dora the Explorer? Often and repeatedly. Who knew that channel surfing and reading the stupid guide was an inherited gene and not a learned trait.