Charlie is away this week, it’s been much better, the children bicker less and it’s easier to make them take responsibility for themselves when I’m not competing with Charlie for their attention.
But I have noticed a few things as I have been around the house. Charlie has written a note in Ollies homework folder saying she authorises him to do no homework for all of 2022. He is 10 now and needs to do some homework, just to start learning how to do self learning.
Charlie has also crossed out our surname in the front of her homework book. And I noticed Charlie has ripped out the front page of all the children’s early reader books – They had a page with ‘This book belongs to’ on it where Sam had written our surname, now all those pages have been torn out. I think she did this in the past month.
So despite all what Charlie comes out with about wanting to make things work, she’s still doing plenty to make it not work when I’m not looking.