Rotation of the Boys

Jonathan ......................................................................Jaime

We had a big change at our house a couple of weeks ago I have been waiting to write about after I saw how it worked out. Jonathan, the youngest at 11, moved back to the main childrens home and Jaime, also age 11, moved from the main home into our house. There were a few reasons behind this, but mainly Jonathan is very immature, much more so than the other 3 boys in our house and Jaime was a big disciplinary problem in the main home. I was really dreading the move for fear of the disciplinary problems coming to our rather calm house.
The change has worked out well so far. Jonathan is enjoying playing with all the younger kids again, but he still comes to our house every morning to do his homework for school.
Jaime has done much better in our house. He was a real bully with the younger kids in the main home and in ours there is no one smaller than him to bully so that problem stopped. The ladies in the main home are happy not to have to deal with his behavior anymore. He has almost constant supervision with me which he needs and could not get in the main home with 32 other kids. His behavior at home has certainly improved. He continued to have problems at school, so now he is being home-schooled by a teacher hired to work one-on-one with him in the mornings here.
So for now, the move has benefited both boys and the main home without disrupting our little house too much either.