09/09/09

It was a little bit of a challenging day for me. One of the kids, whose grandmother wants him to come upstairs to Power Hour with me to do his homework, threatened to leave because of that. The only thing that I said to him is that he wouldn't do it. He ended up not making any attempts. If he had, I would have tried to beat him to the door to get in his way. My supervisor said, under an extreme circumstance like that, he would use physical force, such as grabbing the kid's shoulder, to stop him or her from leaving. He said he had spoken to the grandmother. She mentioned that the kid was having a difficult time at home. His mother had just received visitation rights.

The rest of the time in Power Hour was spent playing Connect Four and Guess Who with the rest of the kids. I was trying to get them to lower their voices because there was another kid in there doing her homework, but I had a tough time. I had a mentor in there that was supposed to help me out, but she was only adding to the problem. When my supervisor asked if there were any problems, I mentioned that. He said he would speak to her for me and try to get me a different mentor up there. I finished making up the rest of the teen contact list in Excel. Also, during the youth council meeting, I was stuck watching the downstairs area by myself, but nobody else came in.