Where’s Your

Head?

My Dad would always say, “Where’s your head?” to us kids.  “If your head wasn’t connected to your body, you’d forget that too!”  And so, I found myself throwing the same familiar line at Jaidyn.

Jaidyn is a very very responsible child.  But by the 2nd week of school already, Jaidyn managed to forget her homework one day, left her planner at school 2 separate days, left her lunch box at school and once at home.

Everyday she’d be in tears over something that she had forgotten.  If anyone knows Jaidyn, you’d know she is very hard on herself.  She is just devastated in situations like this where she is helpless and has to face the disappointment and wrath from her teacher or her mommy.

So I’ve tried to patiently bail her out of the situations by driving to a friends house to copy the homework material so she could turn it in on time, taken her lunch that was left on the kitchen counter to school, prepared her lunch in a paper bag when she’s left her lunch box at school, and then each time have talked with her about how responsible she usually is and how we can work this out and tomorrow will be a brand new day with no mistakes.  So since this note, she has not had any “devastating situations.”

 

(The teachers tell the kids to make sure to always have their planners signed by a parent and turned in with their homework everyday.)