distracted. most educators will tell you to set a bedtime, and i can tell you to do that. but if at 10:00, the child is not tired, you can t pinch their eyes together. but what you can do is work the snot out of them all day so they re going to be good and tired. so what is going to be different about our schedule? i m going to wake up earlier. yeah, how about that? i can t tell if you re being sarcastic. missing the bus today, not cool. next on the agenda, study habits. for david, when he s doing something he has to read is he puts together note cards. and any way for him to monitor what he s learning is to take notes on it. david, the library is not your place to study. no. it s where you have an audience, so you can do your card tricks. actually, i don t do my card
cases in new york history. let s take a quick peek. she s certainly a very enthusiastic young woman. where did you find it? 53rd street. she had a leaky faucet. ah, yes, the famous leaky faucet at 53rd street. aren t you sorry you gave up a promising career in real estate? no. you re ignoring a very hard fact of life, david. she s never going to be one of us. okay, what did you think? what is your review on this one? you know, it s a decent film with better performances. i thought it was really slow. it picks up at the last act, but by then, i m just really disinterested in all the characters at that point. you re bored by that movie? i am. i thought the story could have
hour. then they have dinner. then we go to library. and how long do we stay at the library? 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, we tell them, make the decision. so many families want to let their children make decisions. and i understand why, but they re kids, and they need us grown people to tell them how they re supposed to live. so about two hours at the library of which david, about how much studying do you think he does in two hours? couldn t say. i also know that david likes to do card tricks and paper airplanes. he loves that stuff. at the library? yes. for his friends. david s an entertainer. now it s about 9:30. so bedtime? eva and nathan will probably go off the computer probably i ve hustled them off around 10:00. but the kids are not staying in bed. they re getting up in the middle of the night for snacks. you know, all that
rise. are you awake? david, good morning. it s time to wake up. time to get up and get your stuff together and go to school. good morning. come on. rise and shine, happy guy. come on, nathan. this is your second call. okay, hurry up because you need to leave with daddy in, like, five minutes, okay? it s worrisome because it is five minutes of 8:00. i m leaving the house, and the kid isn t out of the bed yet. the main help that we need is that homework and keeping our kids on track in school has become a source of a great deal of strife and disharmony within the family. victor and i made a decision this year, i don t know how we re going to stick with it, but why wait till the children go to college and we re paying $40,000 a year to have them not do homework and not follow through and potentially drop out of school. the family is not alone. there are millions of families
the best place is for david to study. and david, you need to study there. i have a comment. i do not want to sit in the kitchen. david s a bright kid, but he is argumentative. understand he s a child. and as a child, he needs to take the direction of the adults who care about him. because it is hard seats, and i don t like hard seats. that was kind of but that s interesting because you thought that you had a choice in this. that s really cool. yeah, that is. you thought. you kind of fell back into the old david. right now what we re talking about is what s best for david. oh. so i don t get a choice for what s best for david? not right now. okay. he can be a little hard here and there. but when i m trying to help him to improve his grades, he just needs to listen. okay. so now here s the big one. this is the biggest one of all.