Out of the mouths of babes is one thing...
Out of the mouths of teens is typically another thing entirely...
Sometimes however out of the mouth of a teen can be surprisingly what it should have been all along.
So my son is the blond in the wordless Monday photos. Like his cousins Ace, Cicero and Kale, he's a good student. You know the kind, the one who is asked to sit by the bad kids to keep them straight.
If this feels at all familiar, then you know the routine. The teacher puts you in groups and you end up doing most of the project for the group.
Not anymore my friends. My son, I will call him Screen Time, has come up with the answer. Here is how the scene went down in Geometry just two days ago.
Screen Time's assigned partner, Ben, announces that he is just going to play games on his laptop instead of doing his work.
I kid you not, this is what my son says to him, "Well if you are not going to do it, then neither am I. And I can tell you that my grade can take a Zero AND I know how to do the extra credit. I'm pretty sure yours can't and you need to learn this so if you don't want a Zero you are going to have to help."
Shocking twist of events, Ben helps.
Unbelievable.
I have never been so proud (and irritated - why didn't I think of that).
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