Tried getting him a watch.... he's lost them (4 @ the last count... but of course it's not his fault he can't find them....
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Refuse to get him a mobile until he starts looking after things.... school jumpers (on the third one of them since September - made him buy the last one as I refuse to keep replacing them), lunch bag - lost count so now he's taking his lunch in a carrier bag!, trainers, fairies must have had them away! I could go on...
I don't have a problem with sticking to the rules, or even with the grounding him, to be honest it's just trying to get through to him that HE IS responsible for HIS actions, accidents do happen, but it's still his responsibility to put in SOME effort rather than expect others to tell him what he should or shouldn't be doing at his age.
Him being a boy is no excuse for lazy, 'couldn't care less' behaviour iyswim
One minute he doesn't want me telling him what to do all the time, but then he pulled a face because I didn't 'remind him' to get his breakfast..... He's 10 years old for pity's sake. He has breakfast every day.....!
3 years ago, when he was going to a minders, I got so fed up waiting for him to get ready to leave (he'd start reading a book in his room, and once, caught him looking out the ruddy window!) I warned him over 2 days that if he wasn't ready by the time I was, he'd go to her in whatever stage he was at - on the third day he arrived at her house in his underwear with his uniform in a carrier bag! You'd have thought that that would have hurried him up the following day..... but nope (Thankfully my minder thought it was hilarious and understood where I was coming from lol, my children were the only ones she had in the morning too thank goodness)
Can get ready in 5 minutes flat when there's something on at school he wants to get to first though!
Ah well, back to the drawing board, and thanks for your replies
Chrissie
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