Tyler thanking me for going over his homework with him.,,,So, it was really a kind of challenging evening. Strong evidence suggested to me that Tyler had not, in fact, been reading for 30 minutes every day even though he answered that question with a yes every time I asked it. I was calm. Told him I now needed to weigh whether I had been lazy, or misjudged whether he was ready to independently do his reading, without my requiring that he tell me about it, or what page he had finished. That I wanted to raise him to be man who did what he was supposed to do even when he wasn't being checked up on. That the point was to acquire reading skills so that he could finish high school and college. And then we went back to the rest of his homework, and when we were finished, he said, "Thank you for going over my homework with me."
When we finished with his homework Tuesday night, he went to his room, saying that he wanted to get something to show me. It was a shell that he'd kept from the Panda restaurant. Seafood was served in it, and he said he thought, "Hey, that would be cool to take home," so he took it to the restroom and washed it out.
I got to talk to Daddy yesterday. He and Jim Thompson and John Jewett went to lunch, and he said Jim's bad knee almost made it impossible to get up out of their booth. He said that he and John have hearing aids (or Jim, I've forgotten for sure which one) but Jim doesn't so they started talking louder. He said they were talking politics so he was sure some of the other diners weren't happy about that. I told him they'd get over it. We laughed a lot.
I came back to the writing shack yesterday at 4:15 and stayed till 5:15. I spent the time reading articles I'd saved on Facebook, and making decisions about them. I enjoyed that time.
My new ritual is to eat my little evening treat before I take my bath and to stop eating in the living room, and I did that last night, so I was happy about that.
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