My middle child is not as academically driven as his older brother or younger sister. He's been diagnosed ADD and has been prescribed medication for it(something I have disagreed with, but my husband is standing firm on this). He's had other health problems in the past and is smaller than all of his other classmates. His sister, who's almost 4 years younger than him, is about 2 inches shorter than he is and they weigh the same.
I know that he tries to go all out for sports and other activities, but he won't do the same for school. My husband and I decided to let him play football this year, if he kept his grades up, something our child agreed to. School started 3 weeks ago and he's already failing in his reading class. I reminded him that because his grades are already below a C, he can't practice or play in the games until those grades get back up, something we're going to have to tell his coach tonight.
My son is disappointed, to say the least, and his behavior hasn't exactly been peachy keen either after my announcement. My heart virtually hurts because I know I'm taking away something that he loves to do, and I know that I have to stick with this. But it's just so freaking hard to look at my son with that look on his face like I drove over and parked a puppy under the wheel of my car. Unfortunately, hubby's still gone and so I'm bearing the brunt of it all.
And it doesn't help that with my daughter in cheerleading, she's going to be cheering at these football games so we'll be going to the games and he's going to be sitting at the sidelines.