no smiley face

The Mayor is 2 out of 3 on good behavior at school this week. So deflating. His teacher said she was going back and forth on whether to give him a star for good behavior today until he started ripping out the pages of the classroom Bible. Seriously. The kid has never torn a page out of a book in this house...what the heck is going on with him?

She said she thinks he just had an off day (duh) because he kept lying down and sucking his thumb. Like maybe he was really tired and just irritable. He would go from tackling people and stealing their books to being super sweet and sharing his swing with a little girl he didn't even know. But alas, it was the Bible tearing that left him without a star.

We got home and I drew a huge sad face on his chart with a red Sharpie. I told him I was sad because he wasn't listening today and tearing out pages of books so that meant he didn't get a smiley face sticker. And because he got a sad face sticker, there would be no special treat this weekend (which is when day 7 would have fallen). He looked at the chart and said "whoa momma! That is a BIG face!" And then he counted "1, 2, 3, 4, 5!". He clearly isn't grasping the behavior chart in its entirety, but we will keep working on that.