Group Projects Part 1

My daughter pulled an all-nighter. The first all-nighter, she was in elementary school and asked for coffee. This one, she was working on a "group project." The group contributed little and they are likely going to crucify her.

The group decided to make a skeleton model of the human body in laffy taffy. The group composed a list of materials consisting of a project board and laffy taffy. The night before the group work began I rushed to Target to buy these materials. A project board and a large bag of laffy taffy, no problemo.

When my daughter brought the group project home to work on it this weekend, it resembled a skeleton. She had the laffy taffy I bought, a few pieces the group contributed, and a glue gun. She worked on it on Saturday. We had to leave the house at some point to go somewhere. When we came back, we discovered Snowflake our dog had consumed the project.

I went to Target (again) and bought more laffy taffy and yet another project board. One good thing came from the consumption of the project. I suggested Taylor cut off the pieces of the project that were finished and remount them on a darker board. This made the project look a little better. Taylor had been concerned that several of the bones were not in proportion. The fact that she could redraw and remount some of those pieces solved the proportion dilemma.

Taylor stayed up all night working on the project. This morning, I found her English Project Board empty (due today sadly). I'm not sure what is going to happen.

When I asked her why the other kids were not contributing, she told me---they are busy. Taylor took it upon her self to do this project alone. Where did she learn such behavior? What is she doing correctly and what is she doing wrong?

If you guessed that Taylor learned this behavior from me then (ding, ding, ding) you are right! Now, I only need to take what I've learned here and apply to my own sad little life. Sad, because I should have learned these lessons a long time ago. Oh well. Sad because the situation is easily resolved in my sad little life. I can only hope that Taylor will see this and revise her behavior based upon seeing my revision. This is my theory anyway.

Let's see what happens.