by sassychick ~ My son has learned to whistle. Yep. Which would be one of those “milestones” I would happily embrace, right? Well I’m darn close to taping his mouth shut.
I'm also pretty sure I need to hire a tutor. Not because my children are not doing well, but because if I have to do another second of homework this might start sounding rational. And Yes. That wasn't rational. Please send all hate mail to [email protected] But can I just say what a lot of people are thinking, I didn't become a teacher for a reason. Im not patient. Im not nice when I have to instruct someone and they don't pick up on it after the tenth time Ive explained it. I don't understand how you can spell astronaut (yep, I used spell check on this word) correctly and get stumped on THE. BTW, both my kids confuse THE and A. Just sayin. Frustrating. I love my children and there are MANY things I will have to go over COUNTLESS times...LIKE saying yes mam...Which, might I had, I have seen a 3 year old say without having to be prompted EVERY SINGLE TIME. Parenting is difficult. I think we try to be all positive about it, especially to new parents, because if we told the truth, we'd scare the crap out of them. This is a subject where truth needs to come in SMALL DOSES. Or there will be no more kids on earth. Its NOT just 13 years of school then possible college...Its 13 plus 4 plus another 13 plus however long it takes that stinking last kid we had to get through school. And I guarantee you'll at some point say, did we really need another kid??? We were victims of false advertising. And this is the real kicker. Shouldn't you be smarter as you've progressed? Im pretty sure I wouldn't pass 3rd grade FCAT. I think my kids "hero worship" of their parents subsided a bit when we took their math papers to the computer to look up the answers. Or when we sent a corrected paper that we checked back to school and missed a few. NOTE: When the teacher says, "he did really well on that homework assignment, with the exception of a couple, smile, nod and say, he's doing better every day!" turn. walk away quickly, lest she find out you insisted that was the correct answer. And at one point said, "IM 30 Bray, I THINK I KNOW!" To Bray's teacher, who sometimes reads this blog, this was a "hypothetical situation". Don't know ANYONE who has experienced this, personally.
Whistling, constantly. This has come on the heels of him perfecting the enunciation of the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious which lasted until I had to pull the car over and explain what “over use of a word” was. Im pretty sure I did a fist pump against the armrest. Im human. Deal with it.
You are a HOOT!!! Stay true to form -Love every second of it!!!
Posted by: Mama C | February 10, 2010 at 02:49 PM
Sassy, you CRACK ME UP! BTW, love the disclaimer; I'm sure she can't see straight through that... :)
Posted by: Jessica W. | February 10, 2010 at 05:15 PM
I can't believe you would hold your childs head under water over Homework. I'm calling DCF on you. You don't deserve to be a mother! You should enjoy doing homework with your kids. Kids are a gift from God I think you should have 20 more.
Posted by: socialchick | February 10, 2010 at 05:28 PM
false advertising...funny!
Posted by: singerchick | February 10, 2010 at 06:59 PM
you are funny. and I agree homework is the worst. yuck
Posted by: plannerchick | February 10, 2010 at 10:17 PM
I am now a teacher and I STILL DREAD, DREAD, DREAD the day my kid comes home with homework!!!!! Did I say DREAD??????? I don't give a lot of homework for that reason. Kids loose their childhood too soon these days as it is.
Posted by: photochick | February 10, 2010 at 11:40 PM
IIIIIIII LLLLLOOOOVVVEEE YYYYOOOUUUUUU!!!!!!!
Posted by: bossychick | February 13, 2010 at 08:39 PM