Last day of school, summer is here. Last day of my baby’s kindergarten year. Last day packing lunches and taking the bus. Last day for alarm clocks and making a fuss. Last day for ripping the brush through the hair, and frantically searching for something to wear. Last day of forgetting to send in the […]
Common core
My parenting idol is an unwed mother who got knocked up when she was sixteen years old.
I’ve discovered why I love Gilmore Girls so much. And I’ll be honest. It took me a little while to get to this point. To the point of loving the show so much that I now feel the need to pace myself and ration episodes because I know I’m gonna be really depressed when I’ve watched […]
Common Core isn’t the problem.
Back in 1997, when I was twenty-nine years old and an elementary school teacher in Pennsylvania, I made the decision to move back to Connecticut. Knowing that I was moving at the end of that school year, I applied for teaching jobs in a handful of school districts in Fairfield County, one of the most affluent […]
Strategery
I’m not sure why, but Number 4 is a little obsessed with what school was like when I was kid. Last week I answered a couple of her questions but cut her off when she asked if regular schools were invented back then or did I go to school in a one-room school house. Ouch. […]
Take that, Common Core.
I had a therapy appointment today, and my mom babysat while I was gone. When I got home, she was sitting on the couch working on a math menu problem with Number 4. My mom took one look at me and said, “Kill me now.” Number 4 was running out of patience. “MOM!!! IT SAYS I HAVE TO […]
Open House. Stop wasting our time. And yours.
Back in the day, after you were in school for a few weeks or even a month, you had Back to School Night. Your teachers would have you make some cute stuff and have it hanging on bulletin boards and placed on the desks for the parents to look at. There wasn’t email, or the […]