A Single Daddy’s Blog

Single Parenting from a Father’s Perspective.

Anastasia got in trouble at school today.  I wrote about it in an earlier post.  Part of her punishment was to write an apology letter to her teacher.

She went downstairs to the table to write it and I got on the phone with a client to finalize a project I am working on for him.

While I am on the phone Anastasia finishes her letter and comes and stands next to me impatiently waiting while I am on the phone.  When I looked at her, she tells me she is done.  I told her to wait.  I knew the phone call would not last that long.

She is now sitting behind me playing with the dogs, banging into the walls and crinkling her paper.  I told her to go downstairs and wait for me to call her.  I finished my call and called her to come upstairs.

I guess she got bored downstairs because her paper had little flowers all over the left top corner.  Normally I would encourage this because she s very artistic.  She was in trouble though.  I told her to go downstairs and write it all again.

Flowers from my daughter

I feel bad, cause I know she spent time writing it.  Although that is the very thing she is getting in trouble at school for; doing things she is not supposed to.

This is one of those days that I really need to concentrate on what is going on with her, because she is just getting in too much trouble and there has to be a reason.

Anastasia went to bed early, she got up late, I know she will have a great day!  Right?  Right?

WRONG.

Today Anastasia calls me from her school to let me know she got in trouble and she will be bringing home a paper for me to sign.  This can’t be good.

When she gets home I want to hear the scoop.  She tells me everyone got in trouble and that she got in trouble with everyone else.  I am thinking, “That makes sense.  I raised a perfect little angel that is not capable of getting into trouble be her self.  Surely there was someone else.”  ;)

I asked her if anyone else got a note home.  “No.” she replies.  Ok, so if no one else got a note home, what really happened?!?

Once she realized her little lies were not flying, the tears started followed by the truth.  Seems my little girl likes to constantly get out of her chair and talk to everyone.  On top of that she was rude to the teacher because she got mad.  Here’s the best part.  She got mad because the teacher was writing a letter home because she was bad.  So, now the teacher added showing disrespect to adults to the list of things she did wrong today.

She’s ten.  I am still dealing with the same issues I dealt with when she was 6.  Arghh.

So she is grounded today and I made her write an apology letter to the teacher.  We will see how that turns out.