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The Test Scores That Really Matter

November 6, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

In our school district, the elementary schools administer tests to the kids in September as a way of assessing reading skills. We just received the results from these tests this past week. As I expected, the kids performed very well. Two of them scored above the 95th percentile in multiple areas. Does it feel good […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: communication, compassion, elementary school, empathy, five year old, kindness, read, reading, responsibility, scores, seven-year-old, six year old, test

Sometimes I Don’t Like My Kids

July 24, 2015 by not your average mom 9 Comments

I really love my kids more than anything in the world. But I’ve got to be honest. Sometimes I don’t really like them. At all. Like sometimes I dread the moment I hear them tiptoeing down the stairs in the morning, and as soon as they step foot on the first floor, the countdown to […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Barbies, DS, electronics, five year old, Number 4, Number 7, six year old, three year old, Wii

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