The boy seems to have fully recovered from whatever little bug caught hold of him Monday. He’ll be returning to school today.
The item worth noting in all of this is yesterday, the lass brought home the school work he had missed over the past couple of days. He was feeling better all day yesterday and, unprompted by the Wife or myself, he sat down and worked on his school work.
The relevant background with this is the last time this same situation occurred, the Wife and I had to tag team him and actively work him to do his school work. He complained about it the entire time. He even tried to do it so poorly that the Wife and I would just give up on it, forcing us into the old “It’s not worth it” box.
Not so yesterday. The only questions he asked were for clarification on some of the instructions. His only frustration came when he’d made a mistake on one of his sheets and had some trouble tracking down where it occurred. After he found it, he completed that sheet without further problem.
It’s always nice to know that, occasionally, effort is rewarded.