Red Face Day

Red Face Day

L.R.C. brought home a fat, red face on Friday.

The kids were having an assembly (around 150 students, the teacher said) and this particular child of mine was at the end of the line. He was so far out from his teacher (his last name starts with W so …) that she could not get his attention to tell him to stop what he was doing.

Apparently, he put another child (I was told a pretty good sized one) in a headlock or choke hold or whatever it is. He was hitting the kid and then rubbing his hair with his fist. This sounds horrible and it is, I know. It just isn’t AS horrible as it sounds because it is a big joke around here his older brothers play this way with him. They don’t do it as roughly as it sounds but as a playing around “guy” thing.

Actually, one specific older brother (who lives about 45 minutes from us and is expecting his first child but I’m not sharing any names) taught him the “right” way to do this. Since l.r.c. isn’t around any kids his age or size… he must have been waiting for someone to try it out on. He’s never done that to anyone before other than playing with his grown brothers.

He had to go sit with the teacher for the rest of the assembly and he lost recess. He also lost computer and television for a week here. We told him he loses privileges here every time he gets in trouble at school. There may be nothing left for him to do at this rate. He might just have to sit in a chair and watch the clouds go by or something.

Open house was trying because he wanted to play on the chair rack, talk while the speakers were talking and move all around. He got exasperated when we didn’t let him do any of those things and slid underneath our chairs. I wanted him to get out and sit up properly but his dad thought it was better to leave him there. So… while all the other children were sitting nicely with their parents… our son was lying underneath our seats on the floor.

He got a school shirt with a bull dog on it when we joined the PTO and we all got to see his brother’s art work displayed on the walls of the school!

When his brother (in college) was in high school, he did some art and it was put in the brand new elementary school as soon as they did the grand opening ceremony deal. He has two very nice pieces in frames --- one right before the kids go into the library and one as you are walking down the hall.

We got some pictures in his classroom so I’ll try to get them off his dad’s phone to share on here.