A couple days ago I got the neat idea to start every schoolwork session with a song.  You know, something like the pledge of allegiance, but more fun.  "America The Beautiful" is one of my favorites so I found the lyrics at http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/america.htm and printed out a copy complete with photo montage of the White House and American flag.  I thought it was neat, but as you might have guessed by now, she did not.  Today we finally agreed that we would look for a patriotic song together as soon as we got on the computer.

She did 2 worksheets for tracing and writing practice, a short ABC dot-to-dot, and because she had trouble with the little "h", another page of practice for that.  For some reason, she fought me the whole time on everything.  We even took a little break and played around with a balloon for a while to let off some steam.  As soon as we were back at the craft table, she's complaining all over again.

After the break, I let her choose what she wanted to work on, and she picked out a workbook for time & money.  I think she was frustrated that i did not let her start with the pages way in the back of the book (they progress from easiest to hardest, front to back) and gave up before she was done with the first thing on the first page.  I wouldn't let her quit, or watch movies on the 'puter until she completed 3 pages from 1 workbook, just like we agreed.

If it's too easy, she complains of being tired.  If it's too hard, she just wants to watch movies on the 'puter.  I feel like nothing makes this girl happy unless she gets her way.  I hate fighting with her about everything.