the over there LCS's, little league and cumulative tests
Lets start with the LCS thing. The NLCS and ALCS all involve teams in time zones other than mine, which I think means the games will go till well after midnight during the week on the east coast. Yeah, I'll be keeping up with that...maybe.
Little league - the Mets have their second game tonight after losing a heartbreaker Saturday, up 7-2 after 4 innings and falling apart to lose 12-9. But hey, they played some solid ball between the ugliness, so we'll see.
Now the fun part, cumulative tests. The youngster is in 7th grade and is seeing the concept of cumulative tests for the first time, and not really grasping the importance. This may have a bearing on whether or not, though the Mets have a game tonight, he is in attendance. If you've read here a long time, you know we're dealing with ADD, which means sitting still and studying is a super human effort. It takes the whole family. He would rather be doing just about anything (and I don't know that I can even rule out a sharp stick in the eye) than sitting and studying, especially rote memorization, and none of it can be done on his own. It takes the wife and me going over it with him tag team style, or it won't get done and even then, I'm not sure we're getting there. All I can say is we're giving it our best effort. Today is Science and Literature. Tomorrow is English and Math. We shall see where we are come game time. For now though, it's just real stressful...for all of us. On one hand, I'm thinking we need to skip the game and study, and on the other, I'm thinking if he jumps right into it when he gets home from school and gives it his best shot, by 7:00 we'll have gotten as far as we can and a few hours of stress relief might be what we all need. We'll just have to see.
Little league - the Mets have their second game tonight after losing a heartbreaker Saturday, up 7-2 after 4 innings and falling apart to lose 12-9. But hey, they played some solid ball between the ugliness, so we'll see.
Now the fun part, cumulative tests. The youngster is in 7th grade and is seeing the concept of cumulative tests for the first time, and not really grasping the importance. This may have a bearing on whether or not, though the Mets have a game tonight, he is in attendance. If you've read here a long time, you know we're dealing with ADD, which means sitting still and studying is a super human effort. It takes the whole family. He would rather be doing just about anything (and I don't know that I can even rule out a sharp stick in the eye) than sitting and studying, especially rote memorization, and none of it can be done on his own. It takes the wife and me going over it with him tag team style, or it won't get done and even then, I'm not sure we're getting there. All I can say is we're giving it our best effort. Today is Science and Literature. Tomorrow is English and Math. We shall see where we are come game time. For now though, it's just real stressful...for all of us. On one hand, I'm thinking we need to skip the game and study, and on the other, I'm thinking if he jumps right into it when he gets home from school and gives it his best shot, by 7:00 we'll have gotten as far as we can and a few hours of stress relief might be what we all need. We'll just have to see.
John put this out here at 7:39 AM
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