So Ben had a hard time being good this past weekend. On Friday he kind of fought with a kid on the bus on the way home from school. He was putting boogers on the kid and told the kid that he was going to cut him with his scissors. I believe he also called the kid names, but I'm not totally sure on that one. Ben wouldn't really tell us what had gone on.
On Saturday, we were over at our neighbors Brett and Alma's house having a BBQ. The kids ate and then were running around playing and Ben grabbed the top of a small baby tree they have in their backyard and looked at us all with that gleam in his eye. Brett and Bryce both repeatedly told him not to pull off the leaves, but that's exactly what Ben did. So he had to go home at that point.
Yesterday at church, Ben was actually pretty good during Sacrament Meeting, even when I had to leave him in the chapel by himself to take Alex to go to the bathroom. However, for some reason that is beyond my comprehension, Ben decided that he needed to keep pulling down his pants in Primary, getting himself kicked out for the day.
What do you do about a kid who doesn't want to be good and doesn't act like he feels any remorse for what he's done, other than the fact that he gets privileges taken away and ends up going to bed early? The only other thing I've been able to think to do is to try to have us be better at reading the Book of Mormon together as a family every day.
On a different note, Alex gets to start preschool today. He's excited to be able to go, I think because his big brother goes to school, so now this is something he gets to do.
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So...did he do any better today?
One thing I try to do when one of mine starts seeking negative attention is to work on giving him some positive attention like catching him doing something good and complimenting him for it. It's a little challenging to remember, but it seems to be getting more of a habit to look for good things.
Another thing that Neil started was having periodic father/child outings just one-on-one, starting with Emma and now Emma, Joseph, and Sarah take turns going to do something fun with Dad. Now, I'm going to start too, so we can have mother/child outings because it looks like fun.
Both of these things have seemed to help our family.
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