{"id":2903,"date":"2009-09-22T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T10:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2009-09-24T06:42:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T11:42:58","slug":"parental-validation-at-meet-the-teacher-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/parental-validation-at-meet-the-teacher-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental validation at meet-the-teacher night"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t was meet-the-teacher night at the boys’ school last week. Since Simon has the same two teachers he had last year (and that Tristan had as well) I’m pretty comfortable with that relationship. I was looking forward to meeting Tristan’s new teacher though.<\/p>\n

I sat in Tristan’s desk in the back row and looked around, full of awe and wonder that he’s in Grade Two but I clearly remember <\/em>Grade Two. The kids left stuff out on their desks for us to look through, and there were heaps of administrivia, much of it relating to First Communion later this year. They have two class Webkinzes and lots of affection from the teacher and 20 minutes of homework a night, which seems a little steep to me, but it looks like it’s going to be a good year.<\/p>\n

One of the handouts on the desk was a booklet was called “Diary of a Second Grader.” It was filled with photocopied worksheets they had completed like, “My favourite recess activity is…” and “The thing I am good at is….” I was enjoying reading it, knowing most of the answers before I finished reading the question but happy to have this sweet insight into the mind of my occasionally stoic seven-year-old. <\/p>\n

One page said across the top: “My mom says there are three things that I need to remember when I go out into the world.” These were Tristan’s answers:<\/p>\n

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  1. Do not stand on the fernitur (sic)<\/li>\n
  2. Be polite at somebody else’s house<\/li>\n
  3. I will always love you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Isn’t that the best? One of the three primary messages that my son carries out into the world is that I will always love him. I am a good mother! <\/p>\n

    Excuse me while I go take my shiny bauble of parental affirmation and frame it on the wall, for reference the other 99 per cent of the time when I feel like I’m making things up as I go along and really have no clue as to what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

    “I will always love you.” Sigh….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It was meet-the-teacher night at the boys’ school last week. Since Simon has the same two teachers he had last year (and that Tristan had as well) I’m pretty comfortable with that relationship. I was looking forward to meeting Tristan’s new teacher though. I sat in Tristan’s desk in the back row and looked around, … Continue reading “Parental validation at meet-the-teacher night”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothering-without-a-licence","category-tristan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}