Finally a decently productive day. Not a record for me, by any stretch but I’m definitely feeling the thrill of watching the book rev up.
Yesterday’s Word Count: 3544
Today’s Starting Count: 11,674
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You also need more sleep when you are actively engaged in creative endeavors. I used to think I could only write well in the mornings, but I have discovered that I can also write well in the afternoon if I take a nap first. Try getting the nap in first and then hit the keys, it might just keep you going longer.
Excellent point, Paulette!
Congrats on the positive word count! Hopefully this is just the beginning trickle signalling the torrent of words to follow!
ED’s problem with attendance—would a policy that punishes “laying sorry”,as the local idiom has it, be helpful? The strategy that my husband and I used to deal with this problem when our kids tried the “I don’t feel good, I can’t go to school.” trick was to say, “Fine, stay home, sorry you don’t feel well. The rules are as follows: you must go to bed and stay in the bed the entire day. No phone, no TV, no computer, no miraculous recovery about the time schools gets out, and no after school sports or activities of any kind. YOU’RE SICK. Too sick to go to school=too sick to do anything else.” This drew screams of protest, howls of outrage, and a cessation of phony claims of sickness. A truly sick child was cossetted and cared for, but was expected to make up missed work quickly. A pattern of absences on days when tests are given or projects are due is another problem entirely.
Hope this isn’t getting in your business too much, but it’s a parent’s job to teach teens—who can be very devious and lazy, even the best of them!–that the MINIMUM requirement Life has for them is: Show up! On time. And ready to work.
+ 1 here I had that same policy for my kids. They did not like it but it worked. After a while they quit even trying to push the limit. I had to be anal about it for quite some time and in my case there mother was harder to whip in to line than the kids.
OK, I admit that I faked being sick a lot during high school. It never affected my grades, though, unless you have a real problem with an A becoming an A-. I don’t think that rigid parenting policies such as you describe really deal with the problem. I’d have slept in and then spent the majority of the rest of the day curled up in bed with a good book and been perfectly happy, for example.
No, no – the point is you’re too *SICK*. You don’t get to read a book.
There is a problem – a deeper issue here somewhere. But it is pretty serious – it’s not affecting her grades by a half-letter. It’s a lot worse than that.
And sometimes, the deeper issue is as simple as “I’m challenging you! Make me!”
I’m was trying to say that being absent from school doesn’t necessarily correlate to bad grades. I don’t know much about the problem and don’t really feel like I should attempt to give anyone advice about their kids so I’ll kindly move away from this topic now. 🙂
Don’t forget Moscow Morning that will be fun. You described it pretty good in the books so I can’t wait to see what you come up with for this special coffee.
Go, eagle! GO!