I really need a more expressive icon for times like these

[mickeym]

I didn't even get a chance to clear the threshhold of my door before Matthew announced he has two (not just one, but TWO!) book reports due... TOMORROW.

Book reports he's known about for NINE FUCKING WEEKS.

And can I please do them for him, because I type better and faster than him. I said I'd be happy to type up whatever he dictates, but he owes me something big for this, because he's known for NINE FUCKING WEEKS. *dies*

So now, I'm sitting here checking my email and I said (casually), "by the way, you DO have an outline/guideline sheet to follow for this, right?" And he got this... look...on his face, and now he's digging through his bookbag in what is NOT a reassuring manner, muttering "maybe it's down here at the bottom".

I suspect he's going to be one unhappy boy...

Yep. I'm right. He can't find it.

ETA: And he just keeps making it better and better. He doesn't even have all the reading done. He then told me he has "one done, but I couldn't type fast enough", and got all tongue-tied when I asked "why did you tell me I needed to type two for you?" He finally admitted that no, he doesn't actually have any done. Or all the reading. So I suggested to him that he go upstairs and pick out some books from his bookshelf, and he said "so you're saying I should just plan to do four?" (If he doesn't turn in two tomorrow, he then has to turn in four, to make up for it.) I said yes, exactly, and I would help him with the reading.

He said "I'm not doing it. I don't care if I get an F, I'm not doing it." So I told him he was to go up to his room and stay there until he catches a clue -- without turning on his TV, or his radio, or any gaming systems.

I'm not going to do the goddamn book reports for him. I will help him with his reading/comprehension, because he has a lot of trouble with those. I will type the reports up for him -- but he has to work on the reading and he definitely has to have an idea in mind with the reports. Typing them and doing them are two different things, and I'm not doing his damn homework for him. Not when he's had two months to do it.

And upon further consideration, I think this icon I'm using sums things up nicely, actually.

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[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's gotten more complicated even in the two minutes since I posted this -- and honestly, I don't mind typing for him, it was more irritation that he waited until the last minute. I scribe for him when I help him with his homework, and he has scribing help at school, that's in his IEP. Time and activity management are also things he gets help with, on his IEP... unfortunately while he *should* be old enough to plan ahead, it's not quite that simple.

But yes, there is no excuse for waiting this long; particularly since he was out sick last Thursday and Friday and had plenty of time then to finish up the reading (which he's also not done with), and to make sure he had the guideline sheet, because if he didn't, I could have had his teacher email it or fax it to me. Too late now.

He's up in his room, because he's copped an attitude about it all. From what he says if he doesn't turn the two in tomorrow, he'll have to do four, so I said he should go up to his room and pick out four books from his bookcase so we could get started, that I would help him with the reading. And his response was "I'm not going to do it, I don't care if I get an F." So now he's up there, no TV, no radio, no computer, no games, nothing, and there he'll stay until he gets over his pissy little fit.

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

*nod* I know it's not that simple because he needs the planning help.

I mean that if a) he doesn't tell you what he needs to plan and then b) expects you to rescue him at the 11th hour after he's lost the instructions, there's not much you can do except let him learn that that combo of a and b just don't work.

*lots of supportive snugglehugs to see you thru his pissy fit* and *love*