Mondays are vocabulary day and begin new thing day here in the Shelly school of hard knocks and today is no different. We started a writing assignment last week following a pattern of three point concepts. Devon has already written two such papers and next to him is the recipe on how to get it done.

He has a total disdain for writing though so for the first 30 minutes he sat there pouting. He thinks at some point I’ll probably get mad and send him to his room (thereby escaping the terrible task) but i’ve sat patiently guiding him and encouraging him and escaping myself only to go get coffee and do deep breathing excersizes.

He will eventually get around to actually writing it and when he does he actually does a pretty good job.

But it will take two days and lots of deep breathing to make it happen.

The butthead.