Focus

The switch to cyber school has been hardest on Cooper. While the other three are generally done for the day no later than 2pm (and often much earlier), Cooper has been putting in ten to twelve hour days. He's had a very hard time staying on task, then he was switched into an accelerated math class and had to catch up on nearly two weeks of work. That pushed him behind in all of his classes. It's been a long few weeks of work for all of us.

He finally caught up last Saturday evening and rested on Sunday. Then, when this new week started, he kept putting in those late hours.  I figured he was in the same position as before, getting off track and taking his time. We had today off from school, so we only had four days to get through. 

On Wednesday evening Cooper came upstairs from the basement and reported that he was done. I asked if he was done for the day. He said yes, but he was also done for the whole week. He did four days of work in three.

I hugged him and praised his hard work. Then I asked what the difference was this week. Was he so used to the long hours from the first few weeks that he was now conditioned to accomplish more? He said that might have helped, but he figured not watching so many YouTube videos made a big difference too.

Yup, that would definitely help.