But did you tell him about the phone call, or have you just been waiting to see if his behavior (the part you can see) improves?
The drop in his grades concerns me. What were they before the recent drop? Getting D’s and F’s seems like it could be more than boredom.
Misnomer, I did tell him about the phone call. His friend had overheard him joking that the zit on the inside of his elbow was “where he shoots up.” That one comment caused all that uproar.
Tom Tildrum, he has always had lower grades than he should have. He is incredibly bright and was in the Talented and Gifted program in elementary school. But he hit middle school and he decided he was bored and would only do what he had to. It’s been hard for me to see this in him, but at this point, if he gets passing grades by graduation so he can have SOME options, I’ll deal with that. I wish it were otherwise.
It’s too bad he doesn’t realize that he’s laying a foundation for his future in high school, but it’s not the end of the world if he needs to upgrade some classes when he figures out what he wants to do with his life - it’ll just take him longer to get there. When I hear about kids like this, that saying “Youth is wasted on the young” always comes into my head - if we only knew then what we know now…
Oh, featherlou, if that ain’t the truth. We had a long talk tonight, and I am just so discouraged. Everything apparently looks so glamorous to him, to be out of school, and “omg a real adult.” His older brother is the poster child for “Live your life right, do your best, or this is how you will end up.” And still he doesn’t see it. Having his gf and best friend being a year older than he is is just a flipping PITA. And they are even good kids.
I am so discouraged.