“Thanks for coming in!”
“Of course! We love being involved!” (Lie. We love leaving work early, but we do love knowing our kid isn't feral.) mama’s secret parent teacher conference
Are you telling me this because you’re proud? Or are you telling me this because you want me to fix it at home without you having to say, “Your child doesn’t know the difference between a vowel and a velociraptor”? We small talk about academics, but we are both dancing around the real issue: Does my kid have friends? “Thanks for coming in
If she says, “He is a joy to have in class,” I exhale. If she says, “He is working on keeping his hands to himself,” I begin to sweat. If she says, “He has a very strong personality,” I know my child has convinced the entire table to build a fort out of dictionaries instead of doing their word problems. Or are you telling me this because you
So I ask the question we all ask, phrased casually as if I’m inquiring about the weather:
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