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How can I discipline my 8 year old son in Charter School for acting up in school?

• My son is 8 years old, and very bright. he's the oldest in his class, due to his birthday being on christmas, and him missing the cut off. He excels in reading and math, above grade level. This entire school year the teacher says he's very smart but has an issue with talking back. Today the teacher called and said the last few days he's being acting out, and disrupting class. He's constantly getting out of his seat, talking back, hitting, and being disruptive. They sent something home about getting counseling. I don't necessarily believe in school counseling, seems like it will be more prying then anything. He has both his parent in his life. I'm home with him after school, while dad is at work. One thing that does bother me is he is in this charter school and has to get on a bus at 6:30am and doesn't get bak home off the bus till 5pm. I feel like this day is so long for him. I didn't like the district we lived in, and I heard the charter school was great! and he has been there since kindergarden. He's always had some sort of behavior issue, not too drastic though. At one point him and his cousin were in a class together, and that didn't work because his cousin is extremely hyper. After his cousin left things got better, but now we're back to square one. I'm just tryingto find some healthy ideas to discipline him, that would also be affective. We've tried grounding him, taking away toys, early bed time, no tv, only being aloud to read, writing apology letters to all parties involved and so on

• Answer:

  continue making him write letters of apology, its important that he realizes that he must say sorry when he does something wrong. id there any way you can drive him to school or pick him up to make his day a little bit shorter? i would talk to him about the talking back, see what is going on then on his level tell him he is old enough to know that is rude and if he is naughty enough in school for the teacher to ring home, he will not have any television that night. then you have explained the consequence and he can make a choice. if this continues maybe its worth opting for a bit of counseling why not try to find out more about it there must be rules protecting his and your privacy when it comes to this sort of thing.