May 20 - summer has begun

Summer has just begun!

Often teachers will start out the school year very strict, to the set the standard for the rest of the school year. I am finding that I need to set the standard very high the as the summer begins. I expect to come home to a house that looks a good or better than the house that I left in the morning. I also expect to have all the chores on the list completed daily. Just because they do not need to get up in the morning for school, does not mean that they do not need to get up in the morning.

For whatever reason my kids seem to think that it is party time now that school is out. Ross had five boys sleep over and the house looked like we had five extra boys! At one point I walked into the room they were in and I knew by the smell in the room they were having fun. Morgan felt that since school was out weekend curfew was in place all week long. Andrew sees no reason to do anything on the chores list, because he has all summer to do it.

I am taking the STRICT parent approach to the summer and the kids are not happy about it. I know that I am not the only parent that has taken on this approach to the summer. Our neighbors enforce the strict parent law yesterday. Their youngest was very upset that he could not spend the night with Ross last night because the chores were not completed during the day. So he left a note on the counter.

“I have left for the wilderness (I think that is our house). I will miss you and I love you.”

His parents, bother and sister spent a long period of time looking for him in the neighborhood. Once they found him (very close to home) they took him home and he still unhappy that he did not get to sleep over with Ross.

Summer has just begun!

Blessings
Robin