The other conference topic

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 [...]

Parent-Teacher Conference (long!)

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 [...]

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Just a quick kid update because this week has been very tempestuous and I am tired of thinking about it.

M is slowly learning to write.

It is an extremely frustrating process for her because her receptive reading is very good, but her handwriting and spelling are not. (No surprise as spelling and fine motor [...]