A non-hearing related parenting question...

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At what point do boys lose any shred of common sense they once had?

I love my child, but I'm ready to strangle him. When I picked up the boys

from school today, was all excited about how he'd done extra homework

and worked very hard and was just a POSTER CHILD for academic achievement.

This, of course, set off my " Mom-dar " , and I immediately started trying to

figure out what was amiss.

And then I saw it.

Shining in the light (okay, the sky was cloudy, but it still sticks out like

a sore thumb) was a patch of my child's scalp. With no hair. Seeing as how

I keep his hair pretty short, you can imagine just how much of a chunk is

*missing* for me to even realize that something was up.

After much discussion, I finally figured out that was put up to it by

his friend (who is a horrible influence on , and vice versa) - and that

the friend also cut his own hair. In class. And I didn't hear a peep from

his teacher about this. There's a nice 2x2 square of hair missing from the

middle of 's head - and did I mention that we're going to have all

kinds of family photos taken next week while we're out east for my

stepbrother's wedding? Apparently didn't think to tell the friend

" No " - which has been a problem for the last two years with these two.

doesn't want to get this boy upset (did I mention that this is a kid

who is on a behavior modification program and is horribly impulsive in all

the wrong ways?) and so he'll go along with just about anything he suggests

- and I've just about had it.

And, of course, the only thing that went through my mind as I was trying to

figure out how this managed to happen was the old Bill Cosby skit when he

talks about how his son gave himself a haircut. Bill Cosby goes to talk to

his son, and asks how it happened. " I don't know! " the son replies.

(Which, of course, is what I heard from at first.) Bill Cosby's

reply: " Son, was your head with you all day today?! "

I'll admit it. I channeled Bill Cosby.

Wish us luck - our goddess of a hair stylist managed to fit in on

Saturday to try to hide the damage. I don't know how much luck she'll have

- I've already threatened with just shaving his head completely. It

was amazing how quickly he decided that he should go ahead and write a

letter of apology to his teacher when we got home tonight.

I'm going to go have a glass of wine now.

I love being a parent. I love being a parent. I love being a parent. I

love being a parent..

Kris

Mom to (the raggedly shorn sheep) and Ethan