Originally Posted by puffin
Ds8 owns four polar fleeces. Several times he has gone to school on friday with instructions to find one of the ones he has lost when he gets there and put it on. He hardly ever remembers to hand in his homework on Friday but luckily his teacher accepts it on Monday instead though it doesn't matter much really as he learnt while doing it not by giving it to the teacher.

This worries me too. I keep telling him he needs to do whatever the teacher asks of him, in terms of school-work, handing over home-work etc, but it is definitely a work in progress.