[Nov 29, 96 - 16:18] Armand Haine of 3:800/809 wrote to Bill Dobiesz:
AH> Ahh perhaps what you say would apply to some, but I simply can not accept
AH> the out right response when his teacher asks him if he's had his lunch 
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AH> tablet only to find out that he hasn't.  And he forgot?  His mates are in
AH> his class eating, how can he not remember? He can remember to take them 
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AH> Grandmother's and even here at home.... nah, just laziness!
Or there are more distractions at school.
AH> No, I tend to think it's more of a hinderance, bouncing back like nothing
AH> happened in that you wonder if he understands the trouble caused and is
AH> able to understand why we ask him what we ask him. It strikes me that by
AH> showing little or no concern, he'll go thru the rest of his life the way 
he
AH> is now.  He feels that he can do no wrong.  Bugs me to no end.  The proof
AH> of his actions are clearly shown to him.
We wonder that about my son, as well.  Part of it is indeed an exaggerated 
self-centeredness, not so much a belief that he can do no wrong as that 
whatever he does is what he had to do.
Jerry Schwartz
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