E's Homework

Since my last post was a bit on the depressed side - I thought I would liven things up by writing about E's homework last night. For those of you who don't know my E - he is adorable, sweet, and 8. He hates homework, anything nutritious, chores, and brushing his teeth. Anyway, last night after at least 30 minutes of begging/yelling he finally sat down to do his homework. Rhyming. The teacher wrote thinks like "at" , "et" etc. He had to come up with 6 words that rhymed - fairly simple - more like a 1st grade homework assignment than a 3rd grade - I am thinking this will be so easy for E. Now, I have to be right there when he does his homework - he will write anything just to be done. It's a pain (but, apparently my mother told me I was this way at his age - so I guess it's my fault). I walked away for just a couple of minutes - E. Walked up to me, handed me his homework and said "done." So, being the concerned mother I am looked over things. It all started so well - then we got to "ist". list, mist, pist...OK, I know exactly that E meant "pissed". So, I called him over and asked him if he thought "pist" was a good word to use...well, of course it was, "pissed" is a word. So I calmly explain to him that it probably isn't an appropriate word to use on his homework and it isn't even spelled correctly. Needless to say when I made him re-do the "ist" rhyming words E was pist...I mean, pissed.