The children are in school full time now being the first grade. They all seem to be enjoying their school experience though they each have their unique challenges. After the past two years of Kindergarten and this half way point of first grade, I gotta say I miss my kids and the time I spent with them.
Lets talk about something new that has developed and my new understanding of it. Punishment. Now that the children have to live up to other people's expectations in a public setting certain difficulties have begun to arise. I can tell you that I have never really been a fan of public education and as we advance in this modern version my views are continually reinforced but the cookie cutter approach to expected behavior. Also bias, dear god bias. Once a teacher gets this idea in their head that any one child is the trouble child, that kid is now under a close scrutiny that others may not be. Case in point being something some other kid might do might be responded with a slight warning where as the "trouble maker" is sent to the office. I am highly aware of the inconsistencies towards my children since the triplets are all in the same class. One of my children need a firmer hand than the other two, and if he senses weakness then he will take advantage of you. It's something that we're working on but a natural trait in the aggressive personality archetype and it takes time to tame nature. So in order to try and correct behavior we have grounded. AND it sucks. I never knew that grounding was as much punishment for the parents as it was for the child. While the other two get to do fun things the third has to stay in his room. While two get to go trick or treating the other has to sit somewhere with a parent and not get any candy. During movie night a parent has to sit and watch the grounded one while the other two and parent get to have pizza and watch a movie. It makes everything difficult and seems to do little more than create resentment twixt the kids. With triplets life is never boring.
