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Parent/Teacher meeting aren't the best place for this sort of discussion. 15 minutes per family. Many, many families.

If the teacher is writing the question for your daughter individually, then why can't she write questions like 'please copy edit.'

Call the school NOW and let them know your DD is suffering and hates to do homework and request a meeting with teacher and GC to explore this in depth - you'll need at least an hour. It isn't normal to hate homework in 1st grade.

Best Wishes,
Grinity

Thanks. My husband and I are calling on Monday. We're going to set up a meeting with both of them and go from there.

The one good thing about of school is that there is only 15 kids in the class. So parent meetings are actually about 30 minutes or longer. Sadly most of the parents won't request a meeting since it's not required only the first meeting is required.

FWIW, both of my DDs hated Junie B too. They thought that she was an obnoxious, attention-seeking troublemaker. If the teacher is already writing separate questions, why not suggest letting DD read things that she enjoys. It won't make the questions less annoying but the reading won't be as painful.

I just saw the movie "The King's Speech" - enjoyed it very much. Lovely vignettes of gifted family life. I thought that they portrayed George IV as gifted as well. Opinions?

I am a mentor for a FIRST Robotics team, so I am currently spending my weekends in "the shed" with my team working on designing and building their robot for this year's competition (check out FIRST Robotics FRC group for more info). DDalmost 8 has been coming along trying desperately to get the "big kids" to let her help. Well, I loved watching her work her way into these high school kids' field of view. She was a persistant, yet gentle little fly that eventually they noticed and allowed her to help out. She was rewarded for her persistance by being allowed a chance to drive the prototype bot at the end of the weekend. You should have seen the grin on her face!
I love the fact that I can take my daughter to something as cool as this and not have to worry about her destroying the place, but instead have confidence that she will find a way to helpout with the project. All of the difficulty it is sometimes raising a kid like her seems almost worth it when we can do things like this.

I don't know where else to send this e-mail but my uncle sent it to me this morning. The gifted kid's will love these "puns for educated people". Something else to talk about tomorrow at breakfast.

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For the record, I have a friend who's in to tracend dental medication whenever he's in at all. (really, the guy is... DUMB... except for the smart part)

I'm just writing to cry at you all. We don't fit in. Everyone is complaining about how their kids sleep. And it's so not even the same ballpark, I don't feel like I can say anything. And they're complaining about temper tantrums. And it's not the same ballpark NOW, let alone when DS used to have tantrums. I'm down to talking about where I found the missing bannana last week. DS spent all day yesterday talking about dead things, and then there was the chicken egg conversation (and dye plants, just to confuse the issue), and I'm shy of even talking to his dad about it becuase.. because... because...

How come so many kids seem to survive being in one room ten hours a day five days a week? It can't really be true, can it?

Mich, master of angst.

((pat, pat)) Mich

Mich, I know what you mean. It is so hard not to get into some sort game on it. I really do wonder sometimes how so many children get through what seems to be an awful system in a lot of ways and still be OK. How does that work?

Hmm, then again, thinking of my last foray into my local shopping center, and maybe they aren't so OK (sorry, I'll be good now...)