My step mom just rip my homework, help?
Call and talk with your Dad ASAP - let him sort this out with your step mother - What is wrong with her? Get the torn up homework - tape together and re copy - Project is not due until Tuesday - you have time to re-do - a good computer person could help retrieve the file - but even if you start again - most of it will come back to you - so it will be faster -- PS- next time - back up you file on a thumb drive ~~
I can't do my homework because my Dad has the TV too loud?
I am trying to write a paper for school except I cannot concentrate due to the blaring TV that my Dad has on. I have to research things on the internet and type up the report. I cannot concentrate! My Dad is hard of hearing so he has it turned up to the maximum volume. Is it normal to not be able to concentrate with a loud TV on? Or am I being weird? I ask my Dad to turn it down but he won't and he yelled IM WATCHING TV DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. I cant concentrate.....He is watching Nancy Grace and it is really loud
How can I help an ADHD child with her homework?
You said she is your "younger sister" but then used the term "her father" meaning that he is not your father so she is a step sister. OK, I have it now. Sounds like you are having to be "Mom" here too as you didn't invoke her stance in this matter. Her Dad needs to know that it is abnormal for kids to need to go to the principal office everyday. She has had to see a psychologist at some point and that is a big sign that extra steps need to be taken to help this girl. You have two missions that need to take equal footing. #1 is to help the girl. You asked this question and that is a good start. Read up on ADHD. We need new things and to move a lot so try 15 minutes of active play and 25 minutes of tutoring. Read up on "diet" helpers and make sure she isn't working against herself. See if you can't get the school to test her on dyslexia since it is in the family. Write letters and then write some more letters. #2 is to keep working on Dad. Find out why he won't help his daugther. Ask him how easy it was to grow up with Dyslexia and how he got help and if wants it to be that way for his little girl. Just some suggestions but you get the idea. To turn some stuff around on TV, parents can be talked to (not at) if you come and talk to them like parents. Write down arguments and counterpoints and visualize where you need the conversation to go. Us in sales do this when we are trying to persuade adults to make a decision our way. Good Luck
Can I use the excuse "the dog ate my homework" if it is true?
I think if you’re going to use the excuse, you need the proof, rather than handing nothing in.About 8 years ago, my work required me to do a short college course. It involved some homework. One morning the teacher asked us to hand in our homework and I said I can’t. She jokingly asked “why? Did the dog eat your homework?”. I said “no, but my pet sheep did”.She gave me “the look” and rolled her eyes and said she would fail me. I said “but he really DID eat my homework” and I pulled out a half eaten piece of paper and handed it to her. The whole class erupted into fits of laughter.My sheep was laying in the lounge room watching TV and seemed quite comfortable. Not thinking, I decided to go to the kitchen to get a drink. I was only gone a minute and came back to see the sheep had got up and was devouring my homework. He loves paper (amongst other things), so I should have known better. It was printed paper where we had to fill the answers in, so it wasn’t like a written essay where I could re do it.Pet sheep are like children. Don’t turn your back on them for a second because they will get into everything they’re not supposed to.The teacher was so impressed that she accepted the half eaten paper and passed me. After all, it’s not everyone who has a pet sheep that likes to watch TV…..and likes to eat paper.
My parents ripped my homework and binder up? Are they being fair?
So sorry to hear about this--I do feel your pain. Get some notes and other class mates to renew the fresh material. Do not do homework near to them--since they are shooting themselves in the foot -- by doing this to you-- They are pitiful and do have real issues--since you can keep the shredded work--and show your counselor in school or teacher--and they would understand. Stay clear of them--when doing home work--look on the bright side and dry your tears--they are the excuse for the dog eating the homework (smile). Just cheer up and do not allow these two to get to you--and do not be discouraged--since your homework is going to get you out of their silliness-- Keep on plodding and avoid Spot--since spot is a dumb animal--and you need to keep your home work away from him/them.
Can my dad take away my door? He can be very emotionally abusive and has threatened to remove the door to my room because I close it sometimes. Is this threat valid?
One of my friends had a high-school age son who, well, did some less than super desirable things. The “what” is not the point so I’ll omit that.His dad, generally a reasonable guy, stopped him in his tracks and said that there would be a progression of changes in life as this kid knew it until the less than desirable behavior stopped.By increments, hetook away his cartook away his phonetook away his access to computers except a Chromebook that was “just enough” to let him do homeworktook away his designer clothes and replaced them with monochromatic jump suits (note: not in “prison orange”, but it was clearly of the same thought)took away his bedroom doortook away the upstairs bathroom doorWhen at the end of this the behavior had not changed, the son was expelled from the home. He took a high school equivalency test and joined the military, where things eventually straightened out.So, note the pattern here: decreasingly less privacy and autonomy.That was purposeful. It was done with the intent of limiting the offensive behavior, eliminating one by one the ways in which it could be done covertly.That, to me, makes sense.Just taking the door off as a first shot? That wouldn’t have made sense to me. But as part of a progression of things done with intent, yeah, I can totally see it.
My mother punishes me by taking away my homework. What should I do?
If my mom tried this, I’d grab her offending hand and punch her in the nose. Well, actually I didn’t have a mom at that age, so no such problem for me. This behavior is far beyond acceptable. I was going to an expensive private school, so this sort of behavior would have definitely been counter-productive, from a family point of view.Is this another Indian family problem? And you are the daughter? On Quora, I see a lot of questions like this, if that is the case. Apparently, Indian mothers torture their kids (particularly daughters) like this during their teens in an attempt to gain some power and autonomy for themselves after going crazy within an arranged marriage for 20 years while living under their husband’s even crazier mother’s roof. That’s the view from my Western outpost.What should you do? If your dad won’t do anything about your crazy mom, you are going to have to keep your schoolwork away from her. That probably means do it at school, or elsewhere, and spend less time at home. Would a locked door help? I’d alert the school - perhaps some intervention from them would make clear the value they place on family cooperation in doing schoolwork, or they might make available to you a study hall you can use after school. They might particularly ask your dad to make sure your homework is protected.I confess that from my vantage point and with my imagination, I’m fleshing out this problem without facts and no doubt have the story all wrong. I’m glad I’m not 15 again.
My 12 year old son cussed me out when I told him to do his homework?
It was a typical afternoon after school and we had just gotten home and my son went straight to his room and played video games. He knows that homework comes first and since he wasn't doing it I went in his room and told him to do his homework and then he replied, "No you freaking b****" I was shocked. I have never heard that language come out of his mouth. So I told him that instead of getting to play his video games for 2 hours a day he can only play them for 1 hour a day for the next week. I think I did my job. Do you think I should add to his punishment?
Why does my mom ground me for eveything?
Damn... I have a similar problem with my dad. He just left the room after yelling at me for eating Doritos. He was saying "All I want to do is have some Doritos!" Thing is, there will be a bag that hasnt been opened yet in the pantry, I leave and then come back and the bag is practically empty! My mom doesnt like them, I'm an only child and didn't have any. That leaves Dad. This is the age where parents feel like they need to have complete charge over us, when they can't. They feel like they have to dominate us, when they can't. Have you tried asking your dad to talk to your mom? Because when one parent is strict like your mom, the other is normally not nearly as strict. For example, my dad is really strict, like really strict. I love him to death, but it's hard to talk to him. I go to my mom for help because she is a lot more calm and easy going. (Also, if mom isnt happy, no one's happy!) It helped when my mom talked to him for me, that way I wasnt getting yelled at. Here's how I get through it. Whenever one of my parents starts yelling at me for something stupid, I drown it out. If I deserve it, I listen, but if it's something stupid, just look like youre listening. They'll get bored sooner or later. Just don't let them know what youre doing. Best of luck, ROMVLVS