Owners of 12 year old boys ( y8)

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do you recognise these symptoms?

1. increased number of school sanctions
2. utter inability to organise self beyond basics ( or rather erratic - sometimes is quite good)
3. thoughtlessness " do shcool let you use pencil? have they ever?" him " no" me " well why the hell are you using it now")
4. the inability to remember lesosns learned , WHY WOULD YOU THEN use pencil again?

aargh he is driving me MENTAL
jsut read rs homework and its utter gibberish - like a foreign language student.
did you check this? etce tc

have we had the reading through chat? yes

have sacntioned. have head tilted. have withdrawn stuff.
is is me?

This all sounds horribly familiar. And my son is only 11.5!

I ask him as we get home if he has any homework "No". I check his planner, and there is writing next to a heading that looks like G$%*Ap^y. Can't read the details. Hand planner to DS to read, and he tries to drag it out of his (far from perfect) short term memory. I nag him to do it, and as often as not it is the wrong thing. He is on homework cards for Maths and French, and both teachers seem happy to continue for the foreseeable future as he is so bloody disorganised!

In his defence, he is dyspraxic, and has significant problems sorting out conflicting auditory signals, so homework set in the hubub of a lesson end is very hard for him to get.

However, his work while actually at school is improving by leaps and bounds, so I guess we will just have to soldier on. I hate Ds's homework for more than I hated my own!

And I so sympathise with Hassled - it is only a matter of time before I have the same sort of conversation with one of his teachers. It is scant consolation that the essay will inevitably be his best ever - he is that sort of child.

My D is like this

I say 'Post this letter for me on your way to school'

She -'What do you mean?'

She's A TOTAL DIPSTICK

She's just had another detention for lateness (always on Friday for some reason)and has presented me with a VERY important letter that needs to be signed and returned tomorrow, detailing all the immunisations she's had.

Its been languishing in her bag for about a term and a half.

I reckon its the influence of freind/music/interests clouding their brains

yup, "in a minute" is alive and well in this house... DD($) has started it too

another favourite is "oh the humanity", which was learned from my mentioning it to DH off a MN thread.

after been caught he came out with, "i have to scrub my brain with bleach"

DD (4)... sigh, i think DS gets it from me.....

SO glad to see this thread.

Am owner of 12-year-old DS who actually managed to (almost) electrocute whole class in Textiles by "not noticing" that the sewing machine power cable was running under the needle of his machine.

HOW can you not notice that?

And lol at haribo memory function

there was the time that he nearly took his finger off with the jigsaw... his main worry was that i'd be on duty and have to treat him. i'm a final year student nurse, and i was on placement in a&e at the time. his teachers thought he was being so sweet, trying to spare me the trauma, until he mumbled "i don't know that i'd trust her.." i did't half have the piss taken when i went on duty that night

And if does not get any better either....

Ds1 has yet to get his baking ingredients ready for tomorrow. He tried out the recipe yesterday and forgot to weigh out and put the floor in - he wondered why they went wrong.

His books are a mess, he too has started using a pencil for some reason even though I seem to buy numerous packs of pens every week.

God knows how he is getting on the bus at the moment as I know for a fact his pass has not been in his wallet for the latter half of the week - he tells me it is in there on questioning, been though I have told him I have looked.

Despite numerous reminders on Thursday morning that he would need to take his keys he forgot and had to wait outside the front door for an hour waiting for me.

I meant to say DS1 is nearly 14!

rofl at "i don't know that i'd trust her.."

And the sudden allergy to coats - what's that all about?

"Put your coat on, DS. It's snowing"

"I'm fine"

"I know but you need a coat, DS"

"I'm fine." (stomps out into blizzard in shirtsleeves)

Bellavita lol.
Yours and mine the same

Don't get me started on coats Porpoise...

If it isn't Superdry then forget it. DS2 who is 11 has started early on this one, he refused to look at every coat I showed him in the Autumn until I gave in and said he could have the Superdry like DS1. Every mother at the primary school must hate me now, he has set off a trend and one by one in Yr6 they have been getting them.

coat allergy, check! it was bucketing a few days ago and i forced him to wear a waterproof over his blazer. came back without it everyday for 3 days and had to dry his uniform so that it would be ready for the next day. why??????

i was telling my friend about his allergy to soap, he pops head round the door and says " not allergic to saop, just the combination of soap and water" I despair...

Must just check the house you seem to have my son lol.......mine is now just 13 and exactly the same bloody pain at times but love him regardless

so you're to blame for me having to fork out a fecking fortune to buy a superdry coat that got lost within 3 weeks

And why bother with washing when asphyxiating the house with lynx will do?

Lynx? That's actual grooming, you know.

You should be proud, cameroncook...

Cameron . Losing the coat though is not good.

Yes the Lynx effect... It smells like a tarts budouir (sp) when DS1 has been spraying.

i agree. you should be very proud. DS uses his tin of lynx as a room spary! it's used for his shoes, bed, anything but it's original purpose. esp after he's been in the loo

the allergy to cleanliness has extended to brushing his teeth so i have resorted to shaming him by using disclosure tablets. even he doesn't want to go to school wiht bright blue teeth and lips! (obv done the night before, even i'm not that cruel)

what the heck is spary

spray...

and i haven't even started on the

mione VERY good in am
will get up, breakfast shower and ready for shcool then wake me up..

snigger thats funny jelly

lynx good for when you use a permanenet pen on someone elses white board

hem hem