I have been hearing something constantly the last week that has made me want to rip my own ears off because I just can't listen to it anymore. What is the horrible sound that would make me resort to that? A jackhammer outside my window? The neighbors dog that wont stop barking? Loud music? Nope. It's Gabe. More specifically Gabe whining. Gabe doesn't like first grade. Simply put, just doesn't want to be there. At. All. This is new for me. My other kids loved school from day one. Not Gabe. Is this just the way it will be for him? Will he be the teenager that we pray we can just get through high school?
He has friends at school. He is a great little reader. He is very capable of doing everything that they do at school. He just doesn't want to. He would rather stay home and play. Let me see if I can just give you a little taste of what we have been hearing this last week.
"It's too looooooooooong!"
"Why do I have to gooooooooooo?"
"It's booooooooring!"
"It takes foooooooooooorevvvvvvvvver!"
The first couple of days he pulled at my heartstrings and I felt awful for making him do something he didn't want to do. the next couple of days I tried reasoning with him. Explaining why school is important....blah, blah, blah. This morning I just agreed with everything he said. Sigh. How many more years of this???
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