Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Today, my kid starts school. She’s two and a half. And she’s ready. She’s very, very, very ready. She watches and thinks and learns, her little brain working furiously behind her eyes as she stares fixatedly at me whenever I try to thwart her plans for world domination. It’s time. She needs more than I [...]
For Canadian kids, the end of the school year is approaching (quickly!), and if you are at all like me, you want to offer the teacher a token of appreciation for the hard work they’ve done with your kid(s) this year. And, if you’re like me, you haven’t even begun to think about what the [...]
Did you know that as soon as that scalpel cut in to my abdomen to birth my daughter two years ago, her IQ dropped a total of 46 points? It’s true. She was also going to be born with a natural talent for the piano and a deft hand at sculpting, rivaling that of Michelangelo [...]
Stories like this make my heart hurt. A gang of parents lobbying to remove a special needs child from her public school because her needs are interfering with their childrens’ right to… enjoy peanut butter sandwiches? Yes, it’s a child with a peanut allergy – a severe, deadly peanut allergy – which might not sound [...]
Being a teacher is a demanding job, but it does have its perks – one of them being, at times, grading papers. It’s time consuming, sure, but every once and a while a real gem comes along – an unintentionally funny drawing or spelling error, or a really, really wrong answer – that makes up [...]
Full disclosure: I don’t actually watch Glee. Please don’t berate me. I actually know very little about the show except the basic premise (I watched the first half of the first episode and then… I don’t what happened. Sawyer wasn’t on it, nor were Desmond and Sayid and Jack and I suppose that I found [...]
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