Mommy boot camp

Goofing around in class looked like fun to the second grader. In-school suspension with an hour of desk work and the rest of the day to read pleased him, he liked having lots of time to read.
His mom Bobbie did not like it.
Oh she wanted him to read. She did not want him to be suspended. She went to the principal, “the next time he gets in-school suspension, call me and I will come and take him home,” his mom said.
She warned her son that if he chose to goof-off in school he would be going home.
He chose to goof-off.
Suspension began that day and went into the next.
“If you do not choose to get an education, you will work,” Bobbie said when she picked him up. “And you will see the kind of job you can get without an education.”
The next day one determined mother woke her son up early to begin an eight hour work day with two 15 minute breaks and a half hour for lunch. She stood over him all day long to make sure he did not slack off as he cleaned the bathroom and toilets with a toothbrush.
“I micromanaged. He washed all the dirty dishes. Then I pulled out all the clean dishes. If I did not like it, he had to wash them all over again. He cleaned the floor with Mean Green detergent,” she said.
After a day of hard labor, he returned to school.
A couple days later, mother and son were in a department store checking out when the boy froze, his eyes wide open. She turned and saw him staring at an older man, down on his hands and knees cleaning the floor with Mean Green.
The boy’s mouth hung open.
The man looked up and saw him staring. He asked, “Are you in school?”
“Yes.”
“Do you get good grades?”
“No.”
“Do you want to do this?”
Another shake of the head.
“This is what you do if you don’t get good grades.”
“It was perfect. I could not have set it up better myself,” Bobbie said.
“To this day, if I say, ‘Hey! you want me to break out Mommy Boot Camp?’ he says, ‘No, I’m good.’”
Since then other parents have called her and asked, what she did. A couple friends have brought their children over to do Mommy Boot Camp with their children.
He is a teenager now and is doing all the cooking and cleaning right now while his mother is on bed rest.
“We just talked about this yesterday. My nephew is struggling in math.” She tutors the nephew to help him catch up with his class.
“I put the timer at twice what I think he needs to complete a set of problems. If he does not complete it in that amount of time, then I double the work,” she said.
When the younger boy gets restless, the teenager warns his cousin about Mommy Boot Camp, “I promise you don’t want to do it. You do not want to go to Boot Camp.’”
The threat of Mommy Boot Camp is not made lightly. “I have to mean it. I will have to stand there and watch him do it. That was the hardest thing. I lost a day, too.” the founder of Mommy Boot Camp said.
It was a day well spent, “My teenager is one of the best in the universe, and it all goes back to his going to Mommy Boot Camp.”