Me: Neither.
Jacob: Is he a Pirate then?
Me: No.
Jacob: A Cardinal? A Bear?
Me: No, I don't think he's anything.
Jacob: WHAT?! Well what do you do when you don't have anybody to cheer for?!
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Me: Did either of you have to move your clip yesterday? **They have a clip system in class, sort of like a behavior chart. Mess up and move your clip, the farther down it goes, the worse it is.
Jonah: Jacob did.
Me: What for?
Jacob: Because I was drawing on my page and I wasn't supposed to be.
Me: What were you drawing? Why weren't you doing what you were supposed to be doing?
Jacob: Just some lines and stuff. I don't know! I didn't know what to do!
Me: Then ask next time if you don't know, don't just sit there and doodle.
Jacob (clearly flustered): Okay.
A few minutes later he came to find me, obviously upset by this point.
Jacob: Here's what I was drawing.
Me: What is it?
Jacob: Boobs! I don't like so and so (some girl in his class)
Me: Why not? Did she tell on you for drawing boobs?
Jacob: Yes!!
Me: Why were you drawing boobs? That's not appropriate at all.
Jacob: I don't know!
Me: Don't draw boobs Jacob. Or butts, or tee tees.
Jacob: Okay.
Oh Mrs. Kimball, what you must be thinking.
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On the way to the football game..
Jacob: I forgot my shoes!
Me: YOU MUST BE JOKING! DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO PUT YOUR SHOES ON BEFORE WE LEFT?! YOU DON'T HEAR ANYTHING I SAY, ANY OF YOU! (I'm sure they were all pretty much hating Jacob at this point because it set me off and I just started spewing.) THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG AT SCHOOL JACOB AND JONAH! MRS. KIMBALL SAYS THAT YOU DON'T LISTEN! SHE HAS YOU RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER DESK JONAH AND YOU STILL CAN'T HEAR WHAT SHE SAYS!
Jacob: Well Emmy gets check minuses!
Emmy: ONLY ONE!
Me: FOR YOUR INFORMATION, MRS. JOHNSON SAYS THAT EMMY IS GREAT! SHE DOES WHAT SHE'S SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN SHE'S SUPPOSED TO DO IT, UNLIKE YOU!
Jonah: Well she has a bigger brain than us! That's not fair! Why did God give us little brains?!
Basil: Your brain is just fine, you just don't know how to use it sometimes.
Jonah: Sometimes I forget! Is there someplace to plug it in?!!
***So THAT's the problem. All this time their brains haven't been charging. Got it. Last night when we were going out the door to the game, I asked Basil to please grab Caleb a bottle. We're sitting in the stands after the game started and he looks at me and says "did you bring Caleb anything to drink?"
H-E-L-L-O. So it's a male thing and apparently it never gets any better.
2 comments:
LMAO!
Thanks for the chuckle Nikki.
FWIW, I've had MANY conversations with James on the topic. When prompted he will listen - but only to the first 3-4 words. After those first words he isn't mentally there. He can be looking straight at you, but he isn't there. I'd be angrier with him if I didn't have the exact same problem with John. Only John is good for 6-8 words before tuning out. :-/
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