The Bad Guy

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So how are yall today? I'm kinda tired today...worked too hard yesterday I

guess. But I did get everything I wanted to do done.

Just got off the phone with my son's school counselor. He's getting to be

quite a handful at home. I can't handle it alone. My husband believes in the

too firm hand...my grandmother (who's keeping him until we get his new room

ready) believes in NO hand, his father isn't here to see the problems. So

I'm stuck with being the bad guy. It's running me down fast. I can be on

top of the world all day long, but the minute he steps in the house, all

hell seems to break loose. He's very defiant. It's his way or no way.

Yesterday he came home and had already done his homework (after I've told

him to BRING IT HOME to do). Thought he'd get away with it and I wouldn't

check it...well out of 25 problems, he missed 6 of them... on the first page

(no big deal usually BUT was on something he learned LAST YEAR) Each

problem's answer was 1 number away from the right answer, so I know he flew

through it. Then when we went over it, he would just guess at the answers

and not try. The second page was unreadable. So I made him to do it over

again....Again, I'm the bad guy. I got so upset with him that I told him No

outside time this week.

Sometimes I wonder how he'd behave IF he was living with his father. Not

that i would give him to his father without a huge fight.

The Bad Guy,

Machelle