Grounded!

Today Tyler got grounded for the first time. He made it 5 1/2 years without doing something bad enough to warrant such an action. But today it had to be done. They have a system at school for behavior monitoring. When they are being good they stay on "green light". When they do something wrong one time (that isn't too serious) then they get moved to "yellow light" and if they are really bad or persistantly bad, it's "red light". Today Tyler got put on "red light". He started at yellow, which would have been bad enough but kept on being stinkery (yes, that is a word.... at least in my world!) and she had to move him down to red. He has been on red light one other time this school year and was informed that the next time he'd be grounded.

So today when I came home from work I got to hear all about it. He isn't sure why he was misbehaving but did seem to understand that he'd made a mistake. He apologized and accepted his 3 day grounding (he pled down from 1 week because he told me repeatedly and without prompting that he was sorry) with no whining or back talking or attitude.

So until Friday afternoon he will not play outside, nor watch TV, and will go to bed 15 minutes early. He swears he learned his lesson and will not ever be on "red light" again, so we shall see.

Oh, and there was a flood at my work. It wasn't too bad but a picture Tyler colored for me was destroyed and the carpet was wet and squishy all day. There is nothing like coming back from a 5 day weekend to your office all awry! Oh well... Other than all that it was a good day.