Chichimama: “C, are you ready for me to go through your agenda and homework to make sure you got it all?”
C: “Stop treating me like a baby!”
Chichimama: “I am not treating you like a baby, but last week you either forgot to do or hand in 10 assignments, so I kind of feel like I need to work with you a bit on your organizational skills.”
C: “Fine. Give me a minute to double check everything.”
20 minutes later…
Chichimama: “C, what’s going on???”
C: “I realized that I might not have been as diligent as I should have been about double checking everything…but I STILL don’t need your help.”
10 minutes later…
C: “OK! I’m ready!!!”
Chichimama looks at one sheet of paper. “Tell me about this.”
C: “Argh! I forgot to do that too!”
Sigh. Raising a organizationally-challenged preteen is harder than it looks.
