random incoherence and infantile meanderings

Mr. Rom, 8 years old, is rather displeased with me right now.  He’s been working on his homework since I got up this evening and I am not letting him “be done” with it until he double checks his answers for the math homework.

I don’t think he has really even confronted the idea of double checking before…  He keeps going back to the kitchen table and muttering, loudly and angrily, before coming back to me with the same unaltered worksheet.   The 8th question has a problem with carrying, so I can just glance at the sheet and see that he hasn’t fixed it yet.  I tell him to go finish double checking and he says okay nicely, to my face, and then angrily mutters back at the table.

I’m going to have to go sit down with him and work this out.  I want him to do the work, to get the concept, but I think at this point his aggravation is so  high he can’t even see where he is missing the point.

And oh my!  He’s really really not going to be happy when he finishes redoing his math and I tell him that his sentences aren’t sentences…