I haven't been blogging much, and don't see myself blogging much soon. The selfish reason is I'm working on my book (the one I had linked here in November for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo). I won't bore you with writing stuff except to say it's coming out very well. Normally I write something, feel good about it, wake up the next morning, look at it and think "Dear Lord in Heaven, this sucks" and go nowhere near it again for weeks. Not this one. There's two people in particular I want to see it when it's done, it's so good. That's the selfish reason, and it's a happy one.
The not-selfish reason is not a happy one. I don't want to blog about them, because they're personal and to do so would violate trust, but most of my friends are dealing with some heavy-duty problems this year and we're not even a month into it already. I've got one of my own that's a mystery--I have to talk to my stepson's high school vice principal today and I don't know why. The kid insists he has no clue why the man wants to talk to me about him. I've prodded him every direction I can for information. He won't budge, which means either he's telling the truth or this is something REALLY bad. I'm praying for the former and preparing for the latter. We got a letter from the school claiming he has an excessive number of excused absences this semester already--varying from three to six per class--which makes no sense because we've only called him in sick one day with a severe cold. We caught him ditching one class two weeks ago and he swears he's not done it since. He also claims there's a kid with a similar name to his that might be having problems. It's difficult to believe.
The experts out there all say you should be an advocate for your kid, to not assume that the "authorities" are always right. I know people who do exceptionally well with that philosophy, and as a result have well-adjusted kids that will tell them anything. I did not grow up under that philosophy--if I got in trouble at school I was the one who suffered, not the school; and VERY rarely was that unjust. So I'm torn how to handle this. Any advice you can offer I'll hear.
If prudent, I'll post later what I hear from the vice-principal. Right now call me a worried sick stepdad. This could be a bad day.
The not-selfish reason is not a happy one. I don't want to blog about them, because they're personal and to do so would violate trust, but most of my friends are dealing with some heavy-duty problems this year and we're not even a month into it already. I've got one of my own that's a mystery--I have to talk to my stepson's high school vice principal today and I don't know why. The kid insists he has no clue why the man wants to talk to me about him. I've prodded him every direction I can for information. He won't budge, which means either he's telling the truth or this is something REALLY bad. I'm praying for the former and preparing for the latter. We got a letter from the school claiming he has an excessive number of excused absences this semester already--varying from three to six per class--which makes no sense because we've only called him in sick one day with a severe cold. We caught him ditching one class two weeks ago and he swears he's not done it since. He also claims there's a kid with a similar name to his that might be having problems. It's difficult to believe.
The experts out there all say you should be an advocate for your kid, to not assume that the "authorities" are always right. I know people who do exceptionally well with that philosophy, and as a result have well-adjusted kids that will tell them anything. I did not grow up under that philosophy--if I got in trouble at school I was the one who suffered, not the school; and VERY rarely was that unjust. So I'm torn how to handle this. Any advice you can offer I'll hear.
If prudent, I'll post later what I hear from the vice-principal. Right now call me a worried sick stepdad. This could be a bad day.
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