Just Keep Swimming...

Today is Tuesday on our first full week of school, and already we are dragging. I know it's because we still have to get our schedule all figured out and meshed, but it's a discouraging day and it's only 9am!! The lad woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. He grumbled through each of his responsibilities (chores) this morning, whined about his brother looking at him, slammed cabinet doors and stomped on the floor in anger, then cried because his fingers and knee hurt. *sigh* I knew that starting school in this frame of mind would be nothing if not worse than helpful. So I gave him one of our calm down toys and sent him to a chair to "chill" before school starts. Yesterday he was rather frustrated with his writing page. I knew that we were going to have issues this way since he is such a perfectionist. So today since he couldn't do everything just right, he doesn't want to do it at all. We,'ll be taking a little extra time together today during writing. And we'll do it while his brother is in bed for nap, so that should be motivation for him to want to do it, since rest is not his favorite thing to do. I'm also going to be splitting up their responsibilities so that they have fewer to do in the morning and some to do in the afternoon. That may help. :)