Elijah Tackles The Hound of Baskersville

Elijah has been very distracted the past two weeks. I checked his Saxon Math and he was making a lot of errors. He is also a bit difficult.

My strategy with children that give me problems is to get them off me for a certain period until I feel courageous enough to bring them closer. The ideal strategy is to bring them close right away to you. This my goal. I am working at this goal. To transcend my desire to get them off my back through a timeout but instead bring them in closer to me when they err.

So until he stabilizes, I will let him do his schoolwork beside me and whereever I go.

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