Archive: The Fine and Right Education of the Young Doctor Benny

It's going alright. He got in trouble three times on Wednesday and once yesterday for making child-noise, and he's really trying to get a handle on it. At times it just comes out of him and he can't help it. I just really want him to TRY to control it. Mistakes are understandable, but it's the look-me-in-the-eye-and-do-it-purposefully-daring-me-to-do-something-about-it that isn't okay at all. Not even a little bit. I made a chart to put on the refridgerator and when it's all filled up (seven boxes for no-hollering and seven boxes for no-child-noise) with stickers, he's going to have a BIG SURPRISE. What the surprise will be I am not yet sure. I asked him what he wished the surprise will be and he said a book about space with planets and stars. DEAR LITTLE BOY. THe great thing is that I can already see his whole attitude changing, getting less defiant and more happy and less stressed and just more relaxed. Anyway, along we go. Both nights he's gotten his sticker for bedtime.