All posts tagged: school

When Your Kids Are Just Like You, Flaws And All

November 19, 2014
by birch & raven
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Parenting Skills and Spills

I somehow ended up with three children with whom I share various personality traits–and remember, not one of them is biologically related to me! It can be both endearing and frustrating. C is a morning person, just like I am. I understand when he’s up and raring to go at 6am on a Saturday, no matter what time he went to bed the night before. That doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated when I don’t […]

School Worries

June 11, 2014
by birch & raven
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Parenting Skills and Spills / Wrestling with Angels

We’re coming to the end of the school year around here, but I just got a call from one of E’s teachers that not only does he still have an “incomplete” on his independent study–for which he received weeks of extensions and even permission to start over–but he also currently has a D-, with 6 days left of school (and one of those days is a field trip). Sigh. This frustrates me to no end. I […]