No big plans for the weekend. Just going to spend a little "down time" with my S's -- I get them back Friday evening.
I'm going to be working on S3 a bit. Although I'm not quite sure how I should approach him -- I need to be subtle but firm. He is getting into trouble at his preschool by being disruptive and using "potty words" (silly stuff like "Poo-poo" and "pee-pee" and "poopy-head") -- not in context and with the intent of getting attention and being disagreeable. It's obvious he's rebelling over something.
S3 hasn't been this way until recently. Oh, he's always been the little rascal upstart, just not to this escalating degree and not with the deliberate attempt to be disruptive.
W began grilling me last night about this. We have both recognized that S3 has suddenly started using these potty words and began using them more and more, despite being disciplined. And yet I gathered by W's tone she'd like to pin this on me if she could. She knows better.
S3's preschool has been going through a reorganization, and I think that is a major contributing factor. I also think he has a classmate who's introducing him to a new vocabulary. And it doesn't help that S7 just giggles and laughs whenever S3 starts getting ornery and saying silly stuff like that. He likes to instigate disruptions himself at times.
So we're trying to schedule a parent-teacher meeting with S3's preschool teacher, at her behest. And in the meantime and thereafter I've got to work a delicate balance between disciplining S3 for poor behavior without giving him the improper attention he is trying to steal.
