In this case, I just jinxed myself. Yesterday, I was thinking to myself while cleaning that maybe this is the school year when my kiddo is going to make a real turn-around. He has had his really rough moments- locking his teacher out of her classroom, slamming the door in her face, calling her an "Onion Head"... the usual things we've grown accustomed to. :( But then there have been really great moments, like him being a real leader in a group of students. There have been instances of other boys (some of them new friends) coming up to him to ask about a particular game that is popular among their age group. Moments when the teacher pulled Jack out of class to tell him just how impressed she is with him.
Jack made up with the boy he didn't like, he has had a better experience (so far) with the bus driver.. his number one enemy here is himself. Yesterday, he left his classroom because he was getting upset. This is totally fine, and an agreed upon response. He then went into the bathroom and locked the door, because his grade is in a separate building this year, and now he has no safe place to go. (He has to wait for someone to escort him to the main building, if he needs to see the Intervention Specialist). He did lock the door right away, but because the teacher wouldn't give him a moment to deescalate, and instead kept talking to him, he got upset and kicked the wall. Of his new building. (No cement block walls to kick him back). So.. Jack has to stay after school for "community service" for the rest of the week. I'm great with that. I'm great with him donating his allowance to help with repairs. I'm just not great with him losing control. I'm not great with him seeing that whatever the teacher said wasn't worth getting so mad about.
I'm also REALLY not great with having to cut coffee out of my mornings. This sucks. :(
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