u/Kind-Injury-5174

Hello, I have booked award tickets before but was wondering around how far out is a good time to book a business class seat with cash? My trip is next July. I’m flying USA to Nbo. Is it generally 6 months out? More? Less? I looked initially at a year out and they were about $11000 for the 2 tickets. They are now $14000. Wondering if the tickets should go back down again or not. Thanks for the help!

Hello I’m looking to do 4 days 3 nights with my husband and two kids (5 and 8) the week between Christmas and New Year’s. We are not skiers, but we would like to have the Christmasy winter feels doing tubing, sledding, dog sledding type of activities. Where can we go in the US that would best allow that? Most of the posts seem to be about skiing, which we don’t really care about. Thank you!

My 1st grader in always in trouble at school

So my 1st grader is a smart, out-going, active child, but he is constantly getting in trouble at school. We get emails weekly from his teachers about disruptive behaviors in the class like rolling around in the ground or throwing his pencils. It’s recently gotten to the point where we are getting phone calls. We had similar issues at his small private school and thought he just needed more kids and stimulation so changed him to larger public school where they moved from class to class through the day. It helped for a couple months, but then problems started again. We are worried he is getting labeled and don’t him to become “that kid.”

Two weeks ago we started meeting weekly with a child psychologist to try to work with him on expected and unexpected behaviors in the classroom. She recommended the Kazdin method parenting book that focuses on positive consequences and what not. We read and have started implemented.

To be honest I don’t expect miracles to happen overnight, but I got very disheartened this week when we received a phone call that he hit another child and it left a mark (open hand hit on back) and so he will have in school suspension for 1 day. I talked to my son and he said the other kid hit him so he hit him back, but my son’s hit left a mark so he received ISS, the other child did not. We had a long discussion about talking to the teacher when someone hits us and to keep our hands to ourselves.

I guess I just need encouragement that sticking to seeing child psych and trying to do more positive consequences vs just straight punishment (which hasn’t gotten us anywhere) will help him stop being disruptive in the classroom. He is very smart and so he will be moving to the GT class next year which I’m hoping will help some of the behavior, but I want him to understand that not all attention is good attention.