Have you ever grassed your kids up?

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I just have.

I found out this morning that my eldest would not be in Geography class this afternoon, she told me she had no lessons but the fact is she is skipping class. I found out literally 1 minute before I left for work and I was furious. I had some heated text messages with her about it and she has promised that this will never happen again- I’ll be discussing this further with her over the weekend.

I’m not naive enough to think kids don’t pull the wool over their parents eyes but I am not happy at all with her about this. So unhappy about it that I emailed her Geography teacher and told him that she was skiving off and could he please make sure she was given the work she missed to do over the weekend.

I thought I might feel guilty in grassing up my own child but I don't. I told her that her actions have consequences and that I was very disappointed in her. Anything else I should do? Ground her? Leave it be- she if she's learnt her lesson?
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
Make sure she does the work. My son was being lazy in RE as he doesn't like it, but we've told him it's another GCSE that you can 'get in the bag' easily, so he's doing extra lessons/study at lunch.

He's had a 'lecture' about revising as he just had his Science Mock - if the results aren't great, he will be in trouble (he gets top marks without trying)
 

TreeHuggery

Senior Member
Location
brinsley
I'd say that what you've done has got the message through.... if for any reason it happens again, you've got something to escalate it with..... Can understand you're mad, but we've all done it......and prob will be one of those things you can laugh about later....
 
^^^ this. Wouldn't really regard it as grassing your kids up, she tried to get away with it, got caught and will have to catch up.
Kids often seem programmed to try and get away with as much stuff as they can, but its generally good natured.
 

Jayaly

Senior Member
Location
Hertfordshire
I have yet to catch Tallest Boy in anything where reporting might be a choice, but I will say that I was mightily impressed with the mother who frogmarched her son into my son's class to return his stolen PE kit and apologise to him in person. As far as I was concerned 1000 parenting points went into her karmic account, and I bet her son hasn't nicked anybody else's kit since. In her position, I might have returned it to the school office with a mumbled excuse and a quick exit, but she has inspired me to try to do better if I'm ever in that position.
 

Globalti

Legendary Member
I've always believed in swift, decisive action when kids do bad things. We have dealt firmly with bullying and cyber-bullying of our son with quite good results.
 

blazed

220lb+
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Cycling in the sun
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Bristol
I've liked the post that said get to the reason behind it first, but I think my kids know me, so although they may have pulled the odd sickie, I always made sure they were bored stiff, no phones, computers etc until fully better AND caught up on missed work, means that after trying it once or twice they didn't do it. Occasionally the middle one would ask me to write a letter excusing some missed homework, and I'd offer to write something like.... They couldn't be bothered to do it, and instead they watched TV, never what they wanted me to write. It always got the desired result of them backtracking, and actually submitting some work, though with a moan that so and so's parents was going to write them an excuse.

Now most of them are old enough it's up to them to decide whether they do it or not, but they will face the consequences of not putting in effort. None of mine have ever had much in the way of detentions, certainly in comparison to their cousins, but that could just be down to different schools.
 

I like Skol

A Minging Manc...
I don't take sickies so they know they can't skive either, it just isn't acceptable. They have been caught out lying sometimes and I would also inform the school in this situation. My boys both know I will check up on them but they also know they can come to me and get 100% support if they do something silly or need my help. We have always openly talked about any topic, even things that might be considered taboo. I always prefer them to have an unbiased and accurate view of a subject rather than some badly skewed playground myth.
 

Andy_R

Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
Location
County Durham
Our son's school uses "Insight" - I don't know if anyone else has heard of it, but i simply means we can log on at home and see live which class he's in, what his behaviour has been like, what his work has been like etc. Brill bit of kit.
 
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