Some weeks ago I wrote about my son’s cell phone and my doubts about he having one at the age of 9. I must say I had a bad experience with that cell phone.
First he started calling me to the office 4-6 times a day, although I advised him not to he continued doing so with the excuse that he had important things to tell me or that he just wanted t say Hi.
Almost 4 weeks ago the cell phone had a malfunction and had to go to Nokia to be fixed, quiet and peace returned as well as not so good grades. I now think the cell phone and all the fuss around it caused my son to get distracted and losing his concentration on his school work.
I’m very sad and I regret I did not follow him more closely in school.
Who follows this blog for some time knows that I am a full time worker, I leave home at 8.30am and arrive at 7pm or 8.15pm when my son has soccer classes. He attends a daycare after school where he does all his homeworks so that at night he doesn’t have to do them when he is supposed to be in bed, resting. Usually I don’t worry because I know all the homework is done in daycare and daycare also provides extra works for them to practice what they have learned.
He’s having his 4th teacher this year (3rd grade) due to some factors like teacher retirement, another teacher maternity leave, another teacher medical leave, etc etc. This year was like a roller coaster of teachers and that also affected the students one more than the others. He also started soccer classes in the end of February, another distracting situation maybe.
My son is very active, distracted and talks a lot in class. I’m sure the cell phone contributed to the lack of attention, not only in class but generally. Daycare director told me he’s much calmer since he hasn’t the cell phone.
Today I bought a test book with all the subjects he has in class for him to do some work at home. He’s having his final tests for this year in 2 or 3 weeks and I told him I want him to improve his grades. Daycare director told me not to worry, that this is just a phase, that he is an intelligent boy and he’s going to improve the grades.
One thing I’m sure, he will not get the cell phone back till the end of the school year, and when school starts in September I won’t let him use the cell phone.
