let's just start by saying i feel like banging my head against the frakkin keyboard! my son is driving my to the village of the insane. so i'll start with this morning and work my way back to Friday...
quarter to 9 this morning i'm laying in bed enjoying the extra rest time of the three day weekend... DING DONG- who in the world is at my door? the police have my son in the back of their car and it's his friends dad who showed the police where we live. OMG- i'm all morning foggy and i have to talk to the police! so the officer lets him go in the house while we talk. they found him walking about 5 miles away, he said he was going to his friend's house and that we were at work! what? i think my son has lost his mind, from what we can put together is that he left at about 6 this morning, i think he was running away to escape the trouble he was already in- just a guess.
so go back to friday- i get a call from the school, needless to say i'm like what did he do now. i find out from he teacher that he took his gameboy and was playing in class. come to find out , it isn't his gameboy- it's mine, so OK he stole my GB to play at school. then the teacher is telling me that he would not participate in class so she sent him to the back of the room, where he proceeded to eat a box of cookies ( snacks for the entire class) and then tried to lie his way out of it.
so here i am at a complete loss. seriously, i can't spank him, as it would do no good and i'm mad so that is out of the question. so what in the world do i do, i figured i gave him a reasonable punishment for the Friday offense, but now this- i'm not sure what i'm supposed to do.
this was the original punishment- write sentences until he had a good week at school, then grounded for four weeks ( no TV, games , toys, bike, fun) and the four weeks he had to be good the entire time.
i was thinking of having him pick out the things in life he thinks he wants- the lifestyle, job, house and then research how one gets those things and then research what happens to runaways and people who continue on the path he is on now. maybe seeing the cold hard facts and visiting the jail will show him that this isn't the road he wants to follow. any ideas would help!