About a month ago, M came home from school saying some surprising things. In addition to her speshul snowflakedness, I also talked to her teacher about what M said in this conversation:
M: Mama, I don’t like Jason*. He is in my class an I don’t like him.
Me: Why not?
M: He has a mustache.
(I will confess, [...]
Ok, so there is no way to write this without sounding like I am talking about my prechus little speshul gifted snowflake. But since I have discussed our angsting over M’s school here before, I am going to go into a bit of detail about it anyway. Mock me if you must.
I had my first [...]
We’ve had a really rough week here in AmFam land, but a few comments are requiring a response:
KT takes the cake with the funniest comment I have received in a while. Quoting her husband:
I was fine being the only asian in my K-12 midwestern school - I bonded w/ other asians after we all got into [...]
I received this question via email. I hope the person who wrote it doesn’t mind that I am answering it on the blog, since I took out the identifying information.
Here goes:
We live near an area which has a Mandarin-English immersion program through the public school. I am thinking of moving to that district because of [...]
A few weeks ago, I read Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads at the suggestion of Chicagomama. You can read summaries of the book elsewhere, but it basically describes the different types of personalities of other parents you will encounter when your kid is in school.
When I read it, I was filled with dread. I already survived the [...]