Responsibility is Rough

After the high of 105 on a math test, Christopher came down a bit today.

For starters, he was unable to complete an online PE quiz that was to have been completed this morning. The coaches' web page was down over the weekend so Christopher couldn't get in to take the quiz. He was a bit panicked and worried about what Coach Fuschak would say -- note, his coach is the son of the head Mac football coach, and that coach is a very important person to Christopher. I e-mailed the coach last night and he responded today stating it was OK because the servers were down. There is an online test which will be issued Thursday. While Christopher will have one week to complete it -- guess what, we're knocking it out right away.

The second event was a poor math quiz grade. There were five questions and he missed three -- you do the math. On one question, he simply didn't check his work and rushed through it. The other two he plain missed. He has tutoring Wednesday morning where he will correct his test. I think they get a passing grade when that happens.

And, the final straw broken today, involved math again. His homework fell out of his binder during class, he got very flustered and was unable to turn it in. When he went to explain this to the teacher, she said someone had turned it in and she told him to bring it by her classroom after school. Guess what didn't make it to math class after school? I almost turned around to take him back, but thought, this may be a lesson he needs to learn.

I know he has so much to remember and he should be the one remembering, but what is my duty as mom to help him? I want him to be successful so if I see something going wrong, I should help correct it, right? But there is the whole enabling thing and I want him to develop his own skills around responsibility.

I hate the three strikes he had today. It made for a rough day. For both of us.