tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27352415.post1029157499412789183..comments2024-01-31T10:30:47.824-08:00Comments on Life on a limb: Parent Teacher MeetingDelirioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01564398770468606675noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27352415.post-43690418426924116662013-11-23T10:25:31.502-08:002013-11-23T10:25:31.502-08:00You go to meetings and they scold you about your p...You go to meetings and they scold you about your parenting? <br /><br />I couldn't help but respond, "I thought I was here to discuss my son's school work?"<br /><br />blessings to you, D ~ maxi Maxihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906657260598913275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27352415.post-85720734155162244362013-11-23T05:49:30.945-08:002013-11-23T05:49:30.945-08:00I was hardly around to attend PTA meetings when Ra...I was hardly around to attend PTA meetings when Ranjan was in school except when he was in boarding school when I used to visit his Principal whenever I was in the neighbourhood. Urmeela did the duty and by all accounts, she used to have a grand time watching the other parents.Rummuserhttp://www.rummuser.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27352415.post-63805528451350170582013-11-22T20:43:57.431-08:002013-11-22T20:43:57.431-08:00A few years ago, Delores, I worked as a nursery sc...A few years ago, Delores, I worked as a nursery school teacher for about six months. I quickly decided that it wasn't for me, but had to work out the year. There were five teachers in that school and only two were mothers. I remember one day a little boy came to school with a packet of potato chips in his schoolbag. The principal (no kids of her own) pulled a face and said 'parents! what hope do we have of educating these children if the parents are giving them bad habits?' I happened to know that the boy's mother had just had a second child. Probably, in order to get the little fellow to go to school happily, they had to put his favourite treat in his schoolbag. Kids, when they find themselves supplanted in the parents' eyes by a new sibling, can get very insecure and can give a lot of trouble to their parents when the time comes to go to school. But as the principal wasn't a mother, how would she know that? I said nothing, but I remembered a saying that it's always very easy to bring up children as long as they're not your own. It's true. <br /><br />I am sure your son will be fine. He's lucky to have such an understanding and patient mom. So many kids I see are under pressure.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977676093756206414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27352415.post-43544019226166397382013-11-22T18:58:32.488-08:002013-11-22T18:58:32.488-08:00Looks like you survived the bicycle ride also. I ...Looks like you survived the bicycle ride also. I will take the advice to heart and try to put in 20 minutes of foreign language reading per day.Looneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15801436449971512320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27352415.post-37493121672264982532013-11-22T08:40:37.989-08:002013-11-22T08:40:37.989-08:00When I last visited your blog, Delores, I was on m...When I last visited your blog, Delores, I was on my way to the optician's to collect my glasses. There was a problem with them and I only collected them this afternoon. Thankfully reading should be more comfortable from now on!<br /><br />Reading this post, I am happy to have the PTA meetings well behind me, although Jack and I were well treated. Jack knew a couple of them since they were 'school girls with satchels on their backs' - his words! Elly was facing the second year exams at University in Scotland when her dad died, yet five of her High School teachers attended the funeral and three others came to see me and apologise for not attending, they were covering the other teachers classes.<br /><br />I hope the aches in your sit-upon have evaporated by now!Grannymarhttp://grannymar.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com