Ok, I’m sure I’m getting ahead of myself because my 2 month window isn’t nearly up, but I think the folder might be a long term solution!  T doesn’t fight me about his school work anymore.  If the folder says it has to be done, he just does it.  Don’t get me wrong, he argues about *starting* school, but that I can handle.  The actual work, he does all on his own.  It feels so strange to be so hands-off with him, but he really does so much better when I leave him alone with it.  He also really likes doing his work at the coffee table instaed of in the office, because he doesn’t feel like he’s missing out on anything.  He was so excited today when I showed him how to check his own math work (working backwards to see if your answer adds or subtracts correctly to get the original numbers given), he said “Oh, good, from now on I’m going to check my work before I give it to you”.  I figured this would be good practice for algebra (which somehow seems to loom in our future, lol).

It just feels so nice to *not* fight about this one huge thing, it really makes it easier to not fight with him about the million smaller things.