Sunday 21 November 2010

Zac's First Race

Sorry, no pictures, cos the weather was shit.
The boy wonder did really well. As a novice, starting from the back of the grid he moved up 5 places in all three heats, to gain a start 10th on the grid in the final, achieving 9th position at the end. Pretty good for his first race, acknowledged by a trophy for the best junior novice on the day.
Sadly it all went downhill from there. He should have had second race today (sun) but because of school issues (he got excluded on thursday), I withdrew him from that race.

Zac races under the umbrella of a team who provide technical support, tho we are semi indepentent, but the team have been fully supportive of my decision, to the extent that he's been told if he carries on that way, they will drop him. He's aware that if we lose that tech support, i can't replace it (or maybe won't), and he'll lose everything.

His next race is in 2 weeks time, but subject to satisfactory school attendence and behaviour.
Am I really an ogre, or am I just taking a firm line about behaviour in his best interest? Comments please.

2 comments:

lazyboy43 said...

For some kids, teaching them responsibility and socially acceptable behaviour is like asking them to trsvel on a straight road when there are so many other interesting things off the path for them to see.

You're doing what you have to do to get him to jump back on that road on his own. "Self parenting" is a difficult concept to teach.

Kudos to you for caring enough to take the time and do that, especially when it's not really your responsibility.

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