Boy trouble

I am having such trouble with my son. He is acting up in school. Doing things that he thinks is funny to get attention, like flicking boogers at people. Granted if you saw this in a comedy film you would think it is funny, but not when it is your child either doing the flicking or the child getting flicked.

Every week since school started he come home with as many of 3 pages of bad behavior reports. His teacher even made him do a report on spit and how it can make others sick when you spit on them. Yes he did this too. And you would think that making a 3rd grade boy do a report over a long school weekend would have some effect. I am waiting to see the result.

He is a smart child and he is purposely doing his worst on his school work. One of his home work sheets this week he answered the same to each question. He said he doesn't care.

In the first 4 weeks of school I have received more phone calls from the teacher than I think I did all of last year.

I am exhausted and don't know what to do. I don't know how I can keep going on like this. I have gfotten so stressed out over it I don't sleep.

And my daughter is starting to go through the 'no one likes me and I am loosing my friends.' She is in 5th and some of the girls in her grade are establishing the pecking order for Middle and High school. A lot of it is her own doing. She has friends call her and she never returns the call. She is invited to go places and does not accept, but when she invites, no one shows and she does not understand. She does not understand that all of life is not one on one with others. That she needs to learn how to interact in a group.

She also needs to shield her feelings form the harsh words of others. But this is something I have not learned completely at 44. The poor thing is like her mom on the social ladder. I wish better for her and her brother. But I have failed in showing them how to read the street signs to make the journey more clear than my journey.