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[quote=Anonymous]The line about calling the truant officer crossed the line.  Maybe you intended that to be a joke but the problem is that its a lie.  You aren't really going to call a truant officer. So you throw something like that out there as a way to add emphasis to what you are saying but really its a way to avoid what you are saying.  You should have been direct.  "You need to go to school now.  If you don't I will take away computer time (or whatever).  By bringing in the crap about the truant officer you just teach them that you can't be direct and they can't trust what you say.  Unless you were serious, in which case what the hell is wrong with you?

I would have given my kids a ride.  In fact, I did.  If you cant, you can't and they have to cope.  But I don't think driving your child to school in the rain is coddling.  And personally, I wouldn't want my child to be sopping wet all day.  It seems to me they've already gotten the natural consequences of not dressing properly, why add to it?  Why make them suffer to CONTINUE to prove a point you've already made?[/quote]

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