I should probably take this as a good sign, we’ll see what happens. The kid, along with some others spied a container of blowpops in one of the teachers closets and decided to help themselves. Granted, the kid was the only one of the lot that when confronted, admitted to taking two. This happened on Thursday, he told me about it, and said they got lectured for it, and we both thought it was done.

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from the vice principle to inform me that the kid and others were doing “work duty” during their connection class time and that they would be serving a full day of in school suspension on Monday for “stealing fund raising candy.”

He’s been in tears for the last two days, I think more to the fact that he knew he shouldn’t have done it but he did it anyway. It’s one of those lessons that we all learn, just in different ways. The fact that his dad and I both sat down with him yesterday and had the chat together scared him as well, but not as much as the prospect of no games/electronic outlets ie playing on the computer/texting friends etc for a month. Grounded with nothing to do but homework, and reading, at least it’s a chance for him to get his room cleaned up, not like he’s going to have other things to do.

Are we being a bit harsh, I don’t know. Do I think he’ll ever do something because everyone else does, I don’t know, but I hope he’ll think twice before he does.