Okay. But it was a rough day for him. He ended up skipping football practice and going with Mom to an inner-city Bible study she works with (it's a great ministry, but another story). Did that so they could go by Penney's on the way home. They were having a sale and he only had one pair of long pants that still fit.
When they pulled in the driveway he noticed his light on. I had already moved the tv out. He went upstairs and when he came back down it was evident he'd been crying. I don't think he'd realized that the Playstation and Nintendo were part of the deal. But, I told him he could earn those back (although he wants to sell the Nintendo 64). He has a list of things he has to do this week and I'll set the Playstation up downstairs. (There's a selfish motive there, it's the only thing we've got to play DVDs!). But the television is out until the end of the school year. I think he got the message that his actions caused this.
It was a bad day all around for him though. He saw some paperwork from school about his 504 plan. Being ADHD he still has one (although I put my foot down and stopped the meds about two years ago). But the form says something like "the meeting will determine if the child should still be considered to have a disability." He'd never seen that before and it disturbed him greatly. My wife had to spend about an hour explaining all the terminology to him.
I've had to fight an uphill battle there against the school, his pediatrician and in a lot of cases the Mrs., but she's seeing things differently now.
It helped this morning that on the way in, I caught an episode of "Focus on the Family" which had "kids" sharing how "Dare to Discipline" had been a good thing in their lives...