Back to School Blues

Yup, it's official my kids have started to experience the back-to-school-blues! It was all pretty exciting going back to school, seeing friends, playing, and starting after school activities! Wow, it was the best according to the kids, they were so busy now. They no longer had those get up when they want to days, watch T.V. in the afternoon, play on the computer, swim in the evening, and then stay up and watch their favorite summer time shows.
Oh, but there was one part of going back to school that they simply forgot about.......homework!

The first week back it was to ease back into the whole swing of things...we are now at the end of the first month back and so they are getting their normal homework assignments. The first couple of weeks is testing to see where the kids are at.
This weekend one of our kids had a complete melt down. He went from deciding he wasn't going to eat dinner in protest of always getting in trouble, to kids being mean to him at school, to his sister who doesn't get in trouble like he does, to the sky being blue, to the sun shining too bright!?! As I could hear my husband being as calm as can be trying to get him to calm down and trying to understand all his frustrations I just thought to myself, What?????? I was quite surprised at how my husband was handling it because at that point in his strategy to calm him down I would've just sent him to his room to finish crying and calm himself down. No later than I thought that I could hear my husband starting to lose his patience. There was no calming him down...he just needed to relax on his own in his room.
Finally I went over there and did just that...sent him to his room to relax. Eventually he made his way down and by the next day he was fine.
Whew, thank goodness we got that over.....um, I forgot I still have 3 others who are in school too! This morning it was my other sons turn. He was working on a story for homework. He wrote it then decided to scribble on the bottom of the paper. I told him he was going to have re-write his story because the paper was a mess (and his story was maybe only 1 paragraph it wasn't like I was asking him to re-write a whole page). He just wanted to cut the paper in half.....NO! As I read his story I re-wrote 2 sentences that had misspellings and the sentences weren't complete. Well he decided to try and re-do it right before breakfast. I explained the errors and he dropped his head on the table and yes, you got it....started crying! Okay well, now I don't have time to try his Dad's strategy which ultimately didn't work so I just told him go to your room and come back when you're better. Two down....hopefully the other two will bypass the whole school blues....
Hmmmm, now here comes my littlest one.... "Mama I'm so sad cause I can't go to preschool cause I am sick (cough, cough, sniffle, sniffle)". "Well, today you can rest so that tomorrow you will feel good enough to go to preschool". "Okay Mama, cause you know sissy gave me this cold she grabbed me and that's how I got sick it's all her fault"!
Ugh, if back to school blues....just gotta get into the swing of things and back to our schedule so that these blues will be gone!!!!

Just a Mom trenching her way through they yucky blues!!!