What's the best way to get my 7 year old son to pay follow directions in school?
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Discipline. Or you will be in for some really tough times once he is older.  Grounding, take away things he likes.  Follow through, and don't give in.  You need tough love Mom.
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It's most likely possible to do this by using the checks to pay off his credit card balances.\n\nHowever, what kind of responsibility are you teaching your son if you go ahead and take care of his credit card debt for him?  There are many different ways he can get financial aid and loans for school, co-signing on them is an option for you.  If he's that seriously in debt to NOT get the loans, why should you be burdened with it?  Let him make some hard life mistakes, sometimes it's the best way to learn.
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start using your vacation time and spend a day out of a week as a volunteer in your son's classes.  if he says he has no homework, look at his text books and make some worksheets for him to help him study?  remove the TV from his bedroom.  Use your lunch breaks everyother week to pay his teachers a visit and find out if he is lying about school work.  find out what his homework is from the teachers, they can email you reports once a week.  then ask to see the finished homework you know your son has, because the email said he had homework every night after dinner.
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Find a good tutor, check into homeschooling co-ops, get a good teacher's manual...learn right along with your kid.
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You have other business to take care of first.  Specifically, what business does a 7-year-old have moving to New Jersey?  Does he have a job waiting for him?  How about a house?  How will he support himself or get around?\n\nI urge you, or another caring adult, to go with him.  You'll also be able to find a school more effectively if you go along.
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Put message in the local paper. Contact schools with your details and as above said put it on school notice boards. Equally you could look for home schooling groups and societies and advertise there. My Brother found his private tutor through school because they had told his english teacher their details. You could get a website this will be easily accesible for a lot of people who want to check you out quickly without having to ring or drop in. Create cards and flyers with simple details so parents know what they are getting
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At that age his own language is still progressing so i would limit the amount of teaching you do.  The best thing they can get is exposure to the language.  If you are able to get everyone to speak english around him.  Tell him/her the name of a favourite toy in native tounge first then in english.  This goes for basic phrases and actions.  So if he says 'I need toilet' in his mother tounge repeat it in englsih and expand on it.  eg. in english. 'oh, do you need to go to the toilet, lets go then.\nRead english icture books to him, start at books about 6months to 1 year below his age and work up quickly.\n\n\nAs a last resort, and this is one i would never recommend unless you have no other way,  use radio and/or TV.  only in very small doses
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Tennisshoe has done a wonderful job letting you know what you need to do.\n\nThe thing is, if your son is under 22 years old, and not reading at least at the 8th grade level (the minimum accepted level for regular ed kids to graduate), he should NOT be graduating with a standard diploma. He has until the year of his 22nd birthday to continue taking high school remediation classes free of charge. If they are forcing graduation before then, you DO have a lawsuit. Get a lawyer!\n\nIf your son IS turning 22 years old this year, then the schools have worked with him for as long as they legally can. If they can demonstrate academic growth each year, then they have done what they are supposed to.\n\nIf he is turning 22, take his diploma, and copies of his last few IEPs, to the local college/university. He can be enrolled there for more reading remediation, but now it will cost you and him for tuition and books (rather than the taxpayer).\n\nThere are also trained tutors available, both through the colleges and privately. \n\nWhat bothers me most is that this should have been covered as part of the "Transition Planning" in his IEP meetings, ever since he was 14 years old.\n\nI would strongly recommend that in either case, you get a parent advocate. Most states have a parent advocacy organization of some kind. In New Mexico, it is Parents Reaching Out (PRO).
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Let your child watch the "Multiplication Rock" series of the old "Schoolhouse Rock" videos.  They are easy to get on DVD and are reasonably priced.\n\nThe animations, songs and little tidbits of information they share in the videos are fun to watch and some of the tunes manage to get "stuck in your head" (which is good for remembering).\n\nI recall remembering a lot of the songs in order to recite my 'times' tables back in the days of elementary school.
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it is always best to send your son to school rather than home study. i agree with others that he will have more balance student life in a school whether private or public. i still go for private school.
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Read to them and teach them to do things..any simple thing like making a grilled cheese sandwich or sorting laundry ....opens dialog and helps them with the learning process. Besides it can be good quality time together.
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None, teh facility is privately funded allowing them to have your child removed from their faciility at their discretion.  Schoolds have stricter regualtions.  Talk to his provider about allowing him to do something quiet while the others nap or simply to lay down and be quiet.  Afterall you are paying them to deal with him for the day nto simply when he is behacing...it snto like hes biting chidlren.  he just doesnt wanna sleep.  Find a new care provider if necessary!  Most of them deal with kids who wont nap instead of calling mom to pick them up.  (They should credit you for the days you had to get your child too.)
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parents duty to look of kid behaviuor but one can improve grade by usin paid service like http://www.nicetermpaper.com i know as a best on cheapest rates
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be patient.  boys do it slower than girls and keep up with it, don't stop just because he did.  he'll come around and if he doesn't contact his pedi.
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You have quite a week coming up, don't you?\n\nI think the best approach to use is a practical one.  No, you wouldn't bribe the kids in a classroom that is your regular class, but you don't have time to discipline this class, to teach them to conform to your expectations over time.  They know you're only going to be there a short time and that your assessment of them isn't the one that will be on their report cards.  They don't have much reason to cooperate, do they?\n\nSo, giving rewards (not bribes) is the plan.\nWhen you are thinking what to do, I'd suggest that the rewards program doesn't take much of your time and attention.  I tried giving raffle tickets out once and found that I was forever handing the things out and they were really getting in the way of doing other things.  How about smaller rewards more frequently given?  If you can give them ten extra minutes of recess as a reward for a morning of good behavior, that will keep them more motivated than a bigger reward at the end of the week.\nIf you want to reward just some of the kids (because there will be some stinkers, even in a generally good class) you could try something like a treat at the end of the day or something they could show their parents, a certificate of good behavior.  Maybe having a "Roll of Honor" that will remain for the regular teacher to see with the names of good students will get kids to try to be included.\nI think you also have to work some way that kids who get off to a rocky start in the week can sort of get on board and achieve some reward, too.  I like your idea of making the rewards program start new each day.  If you are doing the Roll of Honor thing, perhaps the kids who are good each day could get a star after their name each day they qualify for the list.  That way even if a kid only behaves on Friday, his success can be recognized and another kid who was good all week will remain motivated since each day's success is noted.\n\nGood luck!
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RULES.    Tell your son that you will be watching.   If your son can't learn to follow rules, then he will have to use the computer at the public library.   \n\nKids Get Net Wise\nGreat information about Internet Safety\nhttp://kids.getnetwise.org/
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nah. best way to kick his butt is to become a better typist than him. ive thought about rearranging the keys on the keyboard to force myself to learn their positions but im too lazy. i think they also sell those things that go over the keyboard but you put your hands under so you cant look down and see the letters. we used those is computer class in high school. good luck and thats a clever way of doing it.