Kids.. Grades... Mean Mom...

1.8  That would be Emma's Social Studies grade, barely a C.  NICE.  Especially for a kid with a nearly photographic memory and who has a knack for random historical trivia.  Why isn't she doing well in social studies you ask?  Well, she doesn't like it, it is boring, it won't help her later in life.  Ok, THEN the next day she asks me for a book on WORLD CULTURES.  Yes, wouldn't that be...  you guessed it...  SOCIAL STUDIES!  Then tonight, at the dinner table, she informs me that the ancient egyptians were not the oldest civilization, it actually the Mesopotamians located between the Tigras and Euphrades rivers in what is now modern day Iraq...  What the heck...  Is that not Social Studies?  Then she spouts off some random dribble about the Roseta Stone.  Did I know that that was an ACTUAL TOOL they used to decipher hieroglyphics?   Yeah, Emma, I did know that...  Guess where I learned it?  Social Studies!

Emma will be minus her cell phone and basically anything with a screen until her social studies grade is a B, and on it's way to an A.  I don't think it will take long.  She is so smart, and there is nothing like a little technology deprivation to get a teen motivated!  My office mate actually told me as I was on the phone with the school counselor today that "I was a mean mom".  I didn't know whether to be hurt or proud...  I opted for proud.  I had my own mean mom, and it is because of her I am the person I am today!