Charles's behaviour

On Thursday night Joe brought the children to the ice skating rink for speed skating. Children enjoyed the lesson very much but Charles was acting up at the end of the lesson as he was last skating around the rink. He came back not so cooperative. Joe pointed out that he even did not listen to coach and did his exercise. Anyway, Chantz had an accident at the rink as he bumped into a boy and had a deep cut on his lips. We showed concern for his injury and I wondered if that was why Charles became jealous and he acted out later in the night.

After dinner and when the children were about to go to bed, Charles suddenly declared that he had not done his work and he wanted to do his work. We let him be and let him do the homework himself. At about 11pm, he only had a last question "what I did this week." I gave him some suggestions and told him he should go to bed and do it the next day but he refused. After that, he started to scream and shout very loudly and even threatened to kill everyone and run away from home. Joe spanked him and he continued and refused to listen to reason. In the end, I went to him and told him that our neighbours were at the balcony and if they called the police, we would be in trouble. This worked and he managed to go to sleep.

The next day, Charles woke up and still he refused to cooperate, he kept saying he was not going to school. In the end, we managed to get him to eat his breakfast and when we were just about to leave the house, he started to do his homeowrk. He really tested our patience but we controlled ourselves and did not punish him. In the car, he suddeny said he got the wrong shoe and I was afraid that he might go back home and not going to school so I said it would be funny shoe day and see if anyone noticed that he had the wrong shoe. Actually the fact is that he had the shoes correctly but he was finding excuse to go back.

WEll! We were hoping things will be okay after that right? Well! He proved himself to be a handful. When Joe went to pick them up at the school, he was so jealous of Chantz receiving a gift from the teacher that he tore his and Chantz work in front of his teacher. His form teacher, Ms Nam saw how headstrong he was and told him off. Joe told him to stand at a corner and continued to talk to the teacher for a few minutes.

Joe was supposed to bring the kids for their Art lesson and after talking to teacher, he realized Charles was missing. Joe and the children searched for him and could not find him. He called me and I told him to call Art teacher that we would not be there as Charles was missing and he was to bring Charlynn and Chantz back home. Our Mr Charles simply took off and he only came back at 4pm. Joe and I went to school and we told his Principal and form teacher that he was missing and we sought permission to look around the school. No luck so we decided to drive around the neighbourhood.

Anyway, we came back after Charlynn called us to say he was back. I really hope he will learn his lesson and try to control his emotions and temper. When he is good, he is an angel but sometimes he has the outbursts and that is worrying.

God bless that he will grow up to be a sensible boy who wil act responsibly.