Kids try your patience

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When you are a parent your children will test your patience. Mines test mines on a daily basis especially when they don't want to do what they are told. My son has to read a book every day and then write a summary about what he read. He is now getting into Goosebumps by R. L. Stine I have a few of the books so I let him borrow them as long as he promises to not damage them. He started by reading The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb. It so happens the books main characters name is Gabe which is my son's name. That made him really want to read it and he was so into it that he read 3 chapters. When it came to the part where he had to summarize it he said I don't know what the book is about. I said well didn't you just read the book? Yes but nothing happened. So you just read 3 chapters of nothing is what you are saying? No dad its about the curse of the mummy. I told him go back and read it again I could have told you the book was about the curse of the mummy I need you to tell the teacher more about the story. So he read it again and kept giving me the same answer. He does this every time he doesn't want to do his reading assignments. I said put the book down and talk to me tell me what happened in the adventure. He starts to tell me and he actually got it correct this time. I said okay now write down the same thing you just told me. When you are done bring it to me so I can check it. About 10 mins later he comes into the living room with the homework sheet and he wrote the story was about the curse of the mummy. Gabe was thinking about all the adventures he would have. That's when I wanted to just ring his neck. We have been working on the one question for hours and he finally gave the right answer and then wrote that down. All I could do was say take this and erase it and don't come back until you write down the answer you gave me and he left. Once again he wrote the same thing I finally got so angry with him I said alright that's it. Give me all of your devices chargers and all the stuff that goes to them. When he brought them to me I put them in a cloth bag and said you see them say good bye because you won't be seeing them for a while. Oh and no television until you start acting like you have a brain in your head. Five minutes later I got a neatly written summary about the part of the book he read. I don't understand why couldn't he have done it right the first time. Had that been my wife dealing with him she would have probably blown a head gasket she has no patience at all.