It's always an interesting ride in Gabe-Land for me.
He sees things differently. He thinks differently. He reacts differently. And he's crazy-smart when he needs to be.
It's the crazy-smart that makes it difficult to teach him morals, personal accountability, and responsibility.
Case in point:
I got a phone call from his school one day saying that he was being difficult and needed to come home. They were suspending him for a day for having skipped a class.
When I got him home I asked him, "Gabe, your teacher said that you refused to report to your 2nd block class. WHY????"
"Mom," He replied, exasperated, "She's lying!"
"Gabe, why would your teacher lie to me?!"
"But, Mom, I didn't refuse to go to class . . . I chose not to go."
It's always difficult to discipline your kid when half your brain wants to paddle blisters into his butt while the other half of your brain is saying, "That's a freaking brilliant kid!"
He sees things differently. He thinks differently. He reacts differently. And he's crazy-smart when he needs to be.
It's the crazy-smart that makes it difficult to teach him morals, personal accountability, and responsibility.
Case in point:
I got a phone call from his school one day saying that he was being difficult and needed to come home. They were suspending him for a day for having skipped a class.
When I got him home I asked him, "Gabe, your teacher said that you refused to report to your 2nd block class. WHY????"
"Mom," He replied, exasperated, "She's lying!"
"Gabe, why would your teacher lie to me?!"
"But, Mom, I didn't refuse to go to class . . . I chose not to go."
It's always difficult to discipline your kid when half your brain wants to paddle blisters into his butt while the other half of your brain is saying, "That's a freaking brilliant kid!"
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