David Journal

Tag: Enoch

  • A disappointing revelation

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    I discovered this morning that my car is still leaking oil (right after the oil leaks we supposedly fixed for the second time). This makes me fear that I will need to significantly accelerate my timeline for a new car. That has been bugging me all day. On the plus side, I ordained Enoch as…

  • Promising developments

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    Last year Enoch had a friend named Traisten (sp?) who he spent tons of time with but then suddenly the stopped setting each other. I never knew why. Suddenly today Enoch went back to hang out with Traisten. Laura told me that there was a discussion in one of Enoch’s classes (health class maybe). I’m…

  • An auspicious beginning

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    Tonight as we were getting ready for dinner Enoch came to me to ask me for help with his math. He acknowledged that he is largely two years behind because of basically ignoring school for 7th and 8th grades. I thought it was promising that he brought it up proactively and that he was patient…

  • Sad day

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    In some ways this day was basically inevitable—a matter of when it would happen and who would be involved more than a question of if it would happen. Tonight I walked into Enoch’s room to call him and Emma for scriptures and found Emma in her underwear jumping off of Enoch. Apparently he bribed her…

  • Surrogate parent

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    Alex informed me that Ezra played a game we have forbidden on Alex’s VR. When I told Ezra that would be a problem he informed me that Enoch had been playing another game that should be equally banned. I brought up to Alex that Enoch was not allowed to play that game and he point…

  • A test

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    I guess we’ll soon see if Enoch’s compliance is solid enough to survive a challenge. We got an email from his health teacher that he was not participating in class and playing on his computer instead. We brought it up to Enoch and told him that behavior didn’t qualify as attending class. I feel like…

  • Not a fresh start (but a fresh phone)

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    Any hope that yesterday was a fresh start for Enoch was dashed quickly today when he failed to get on the bus and instead came home as soon as I left for work. I ended up coming home once I saw Laura’s message and took him back to school while informing him that he was…

  • A new start?

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    Enoch actually went to class today (it’s been nearly 2 months that he’s been skipping). It would be good if this was the beginning of a new, healthy pattern but I won’t be holding my breath yet.

  • Down day

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    Today has been tough for me. I discovered that Enoch had stolen all the Halloween candy from my closet then Emma mentioned that he has also admitted to stealing from the dollar store. Combining those discoveries with his attitude today – including calling Emma an expletive when she didn’t spend her shop with a cop…

  • Punching the ocean

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    I have come to describe Enoch fighting against me as punching the ocean. No matter how much you punch the ocean it never changes the ocean. Not only that but all that punching doesn’t benefit you either I have decided, at least for now, that I’m going to pay as much attention to Enoch’s punching…