Wife Lets Son Skip School All The Time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Change your work schedule and drive him to school. Give him consequences.

You obviously do not understand what working in a SCIF means

Clearly the shouldn’t be married or have kids. Or at least OP refuses to handle it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m kind of interested to know what he thinks divorcing would do for him in this situation.

He’s checked out and won’t do it, because then he’d have to check back in and do 50/50.

Either way, neglect is neglect is neglect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would your wife be willing to homeschool your son? Maybe he has severe anxiety about school? Is he autistic or have ADHD? If he’s just dumb and lazy, then I’d just let him fail. Maybe he needs to repeat a grade to see that his choices have consequences.

Agree— repeating a grade would be a good opportunity for the teen to get his $hit together finally. Hire Mary Poppins too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll tell you what I wouldn't do. I wouldn't jeopardize my career for this. Your son will get natural consequences and hopefully mature a bit.

Other than that depends on whether your wife works or not, and how your salaries compare. Maybe she needs to get to a demanding job too and doesn't want to deal with it. Or maybe she's just a flake.

Thx OP troll. At least you’re consistently self centered.

His wife's job has to be part of his discussion. If she's a sahm then she's a flake. If she needs to leave for work at 7am for her own job, there's not much she can do. If they rely on him for income, he has to keep working. If they rely on her for income she needs to keep working. Either way it might not be worth up-ending their lives and future retirement savings for a teen hs son, and just let him learn his own lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your wife isn’t “letting” him. If she was the absences would be excused.

Before she stopped being willing to discuss this with you, what suggestions did she make for how you could improve things?

This isn't true. She would have to email the school with an excuse to cover absences. 25+ would be difficult to justify.

I have a friend who allows her son to miss school and the school has also made a similar threat. This would be unacceptable in my household, but she just rolls her eyes and allows it. Son is now only attending school to avoid failing as well.

She has to text the school he has a fever. 25 days over six months will not be hard to justify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your wife isn’t “letting” him. If she was the absences would be excused.

Before she stopped being willing to discuss this with you, what suggestions did she make for how you could improve things?

This isn't true. She would have to email the school with an excuse to cover absences. 25+ would be difficult to justify.

I have a friend who allows her son to miss school and the school has also made a similar threat. This would be unacceptable in my household, but she just rolls her eyes and allows it. Son is now only attending school to avoid failing as well.

She has to text the school he has a fever. 25 days over six months will not be hard to justify.

Text a school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Change your work schedule and drive him to school. Give him consequences.

You obviously do not understand what working in a SCIF means

Yes, I very much do... he can go in later and if not, find a new job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s the wife that has the health issue (mental health).

AWOL husband and father ain’t much either.
“Oh my job! Gotta go”

+1 no one is impressed by "working in a SCIF" here.
The original post had so little about how this fits into the wife's personality/ history (is it an aberration, is she depressed, has she always been checked out) or why the kid wants to skip and whether OP tried to talk to his own kid. There doesn't seem to be much parenting from anyone.

Its a pretty common workplace around here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has OP considered prioritizing his son's well-being over having this particular job?

WTF. Do you know how hard it is to find work these days?

Not if you are cleared.