Well, the struggles with the summer homework continue. Tonight, it came to an unfortunate end when he was so adamant that he wasn’t going to write a single word, like point blank refused, that after trying to reason with him, I resorted to spanking him. Now, I’m not a spank first kind of guy. I’ve honestly probably only shanked Troy four times his entire life, and generally only for a very heinous offense. I’ve never wanted for him to get used to it, and I’d prefer to find an alternative way to motivate him. I’m not sure why that seemed the only resort tonight. I guess it was the back talk, sarcasm, willful disobedience and stubbornness, and repetitive intentionality to do exactly the opposite of everything I said all rolled together that finally made me feel like I’d had enough. But I feel horrible about it, and it didn’t work anyway. But mostly, I don’t want him to associate negative punishment with doing school work.
When everything had finally calmed down, he managed to tell me that he didn’t want to do it, because it was boring. Of course, he’d rather just play all the time, and not learn anything, which isn’t an option. I have to find a different way that doesn’t involve corporal punishment, and hopefully a way that also makes it interesting to him. Which is hard when he views all knowledge as boring. He doesn’t even appreciate fun and interesting facts that I randomly tell him. But I’ll keep trying to figure it out. But I failed miserably tonight.
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