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To My Kids’ Teachers

August 31, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

This year we have a kindergartener, first grader, second grader, fifth grader, sixth grader, and high school senior. We’ve got at least one kid in each school in the district. And each of those six kids is different. Some are strong students, some are not so strong. Some are well behaved, some are not so […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bully, first grade, high school, kindergarten, school, teacher, teachers

We Were All New Once

August 29, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

If your school district is anything like my school district, once those teacher assignments come out for the upcoming school year, the feeding frenzy begins and people start interrogating everyone who has a kid older than theirs about teachers. There are always those teachers that everyone wants to get. There are the teachers that nobody […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: kindergarten, Number 6, Number 7, school, teacher

On Wednesday I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.

August 28, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

We are three days away from the first day of school. And I can’t wait. I’ve made some comments about how I may be looking forward to Wednesday more than I’ve ever looked forward to any day in the history of my life, and I’ve been met with people who can totally relate, and then others who […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bus, first day of school, kindergarten, Number 5, Number 7, Number6, recorder, school

To The (Freaked Out) Parents of Kindergarteners

August 25, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I’ve seen your posts in the closed school Facebook Groups. I’ve seen your posts in the open Facebook Groups. And I’ve been in your shoes before. In fact, even with our sixth kid last year, I was still you. Freaking out. So I get it. Our youngest has her first day of kindergarten six days. She has […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: cafeteria, facebook, first day of kindergarten, is my daughter ready for kindergarten?, is my son ready for kindergarten?, kindergarten, Number 6, Number 7, school, sending your child to kindergarten

Education is all about customer service. And the service here kind of sucks.

August 24, 2016 by not your average mom 6 Comments

Eighteen years ago I got a 4th grade teaching position in a fairly wealthy and extremely competitive school district in Fairfield County, CT. I had just moved back to Connecticut from Pennsylvania where I had been teaching for five years. After the principal offered me the job, I was sent to meet with the Assistant Superintendent. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: first grade, kindergarten, school, teachers, test, testing, tests

If your child is nervous about the first day of kindergarten, this will help.

August 24, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I know a lot of you are getting ready to send a child off to kindergarten. (And I know the thought of that first day of school is often way harder for moms than it is for the kids.) But if your son or daughter is a little (or a lot) nervous about that first day, I […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: first, kindergarten, Number 6, school, the Kissing hand

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