LOL, kids.
Sep. 20th, 2013 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyEva had put off the writing part of her homework a really long time, and finally it bumped up against bedtime and it had to be done. The assignment was to write five or more sentences about a happy or sad memory, and she was raging around the house, screaming that she HAD no happy memories NOR any sad memories, they were all just MIDDLE memories and that wasn't RIGHT and NO Mommy couldn't just write her a note she HAD to do it and she could NOT go to bed until she DID it.
Finally, in a brief lull, I was able to get her over to me and I laid it down for her.
"Look, here's what we do. I will dictate five sentences to you. You will write them down. We will simply lie, and your teacher will neither know nor care. All right?"
So we began. I got as far as "This is a story about the time I...." with the intention of letting her pick the scenario when she changed it to "Once I went ice skating" and then proceeded to do the entire assignment herself, sentence by sentence, only stopping to ask for the occasional spelling help. After she was done, having dictated each sentence before she wrote it, she stopped and said "You know, it's a lot easier when I talk about it first!"
Yes, and it's not like the rest of us tried to tell her that at any point during her tirade either!
Finally, in a brief lull, I was able to get her over to me and I laid it down for her.
"Look, here's what we do. I will dictate five sentences to you. You will write them down. We will simply lie, and your teacher will neither know nor care. All right?"
So we began. I got as far as "This is a story about the time I...." with the intention of letting her pick the scenario when she changed it to "Once I went ice skating" and then proceeded to do the entire assignment herself, sentence by sentence, only stopping to ask for the occasional spelling help. After she was done, having dictated each sentence before she wrote it, she stopped and said "You know, it's a lot easier when I talk about it first!"
Yes, and it's not like the rest of us tried to tell her that at any point during her tirade either!
