Report card time!

AGHHHHHHH! Now that all of my 3 kids are in school, I get to look at 3 report cards and try to figure out how to help my lovely kids "reach their full potential". Of course, I know that the grades for a Kindergartner, 3rd grader, and 5th grader will never be seen by a college admissions BUT I believe that the importance of what type of student they perceive themselves to be is what is at risk.

Daughter #1 is in the 5th grade. Everyone says I favor her but I think I am overly harsh with my high expectations for her. She is super emotional (like I was) and gorgeous (like I was NOT). I taught her to read at 3 1/2 and because she was so bored in the 1st grade, her second grade teacher thought she had ADD issues. I spend hours with her weekly to keep her 3.89 GPA. Yes, I also pat my own back at those ceremonies!

Daughter # 2 is in the 3rd grade. She is outrageous and has the coolest curly hair you will ever see! She is lefty and doesn't give a flip if anyone likes her OR if she gets her work done. She gets all of her attention because she is the most funny affectionate one in the house. It is her whose grades have me in a FLURRY! Her teacher has been absent like 15 times with plays and the like yet she cannot contact me, a weekly parent volunteer, to let me know my child is "slowly" reaching grade level in many areas!!!!

Son #1 is in Kindergarten. The ladies man! He is cute and funny and charmimg The grades are going well but I don't make him do too much because I don't want him to be bored in 1st grade. The other day, a kid pushed him and he picked up a paperclip off the floor and poked the kid in the bell (don't worry, no blood!) the teacher only heard about the poke and had the nerve to tell my husband that we should be happy that she didnt document the weapons chrage! LOL

It is amazing how calming the clicking of these keys can be as I hunt and peck at a miraculous rate of speed. Who knew that I could have saved the copays to a shrink in my younger years and just taken up BLOGGING!

Until tomorrow!