Tag: preschool
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Aurora borealis comes in view. Aurora comes in view.
Today was Crazy Hair Day in Mike’s classroom, and of course Robbie wanted to join in. I honestly never thought that having been a teenager in the 80s would come in handy as a parent, but I guess all those days of spiking my boyfriends hair was not for naught. They’re just lucky I decided…
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Wll Mr. Short Fuse get the upper hand by learning to take deep breaths on the sidelines?
Since the day he was born Mike has had no patience for things that piss him off, and now that he’s 5 that encompasses a lot of happenings in the world. The problem is that since he is still a little kid he doesn’t have very many good ways to deal with his frustration and…
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I think it's time to hand him over to the trained (re)educational professionals.
Mike is ready for kindergarten, but unfortunately it doesn’t start until August. For months he’s been doing letters and words everywhere. He wants to know how things work. He loves the more school-like activities at his preschool. He’s ready. Well… Except for one thing. He refuses to admit that the alphabet contains the letter N.…
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I do more shoddy parenting by 9am than you do all day. (Today wasn't exactly a high-point in my mothering career.)
All three boys go to the same school, and every day I usually drop Chip off last. He loves to go to his brothers’ preschool rooms first and play with all the big kid toys. He knows all the teachers names and walks around like he owns the place, and I never worry about him…
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Teachers vs. Parents. Let the sharing begin. "Hear me crying, Kumbayah!"
Robbie tends to give me the lowdown on everything going on with his friends at school, his teachers, and the classroom. For instance, he just told me that one of his teachers has a new coffee cup. He went into great detail about how it has some straight lines and some CURVY lines — ‘curvy’…
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Watch out for my MAN HANDS! For they are coming to get you! AARRRGH!
When I dropped Mike off at school, he pulled a green bead necklace out of his cubby. He put it on me and told me to show it to all my friends. So there you go, friends. Oh, ignore the ENORMOUS hand, but yes, in reality I am that orange.
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No wonder they're so tired at night. Beating the cr@p out of each other all day every day will really wear a guy out.
Daycare & preschool are closed today and yesterday. Yesterday was Mr. Plain’s turn to stay home with the monkeys, and today it’s mine. I have a couple of questions. How do kids who really only eat about 1.2 meals a day have so much energy? With an (allegedly) finite amount of energy, why would they…
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MAN, I'm tired today. Where's that Calgon guy in the little boat when you need him?
I shuttled Chip to his eye surgeon this morning for another post-surgery check. It took an hour to get there, 25 minutes to park, the doctor was an hour and a quarter late, and I got back JUST in time to pick up Mike and Robbie from preschool at 12:30. Lordy, I am tired. I…
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"Mommy, I wanna tell you a story. But first, let me get my hat. Hey — look — a bird!"
First, one piece of background before I tell you this story about Robbie. And here I’ll quote Mike: Robbie has a LOT of pee in his body! Onward. Robbie is nothing if not a good story teller. Ask him a question, any question, and you are in for the long haul. His tales involve many…
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Because I have a pea-sized brain and need to see information to understand it. Well, and because I'm a huge dork.
I’m going to come clean. For the longest time I was not able to figure out when Mike would go to kindergarten. I just couldn’t do the math, so instead I drew a picture. (Click to see the full horror.) Using Excel. Yeah, I know. Sad. BUT! Now I at least know when the kidlets…
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How we decided to send our kids to daycare, and how we accidentally chose the perfect center for our family.
The first time I gave serious thought to what we were going to do with our child while we were at work was after we had finally finished all our adoption paperwork. There wasn’t a lot to do at that point but wait around, so I found other projects to keep me occupied. We first…
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This one goes out to all the parents who are craftastically challenged. How to survive the creation of mass quantities of preschool Valentines.
Yeah, if you’re reading this now you’re cutting it a little close for Valentine’s Day 2007. And that means you’re my kind of person! With 2 kids in preschool, and one in daycare (who must do EVERY-THING his big brothers do) we needed to make about 90 valentine’s cards this year. I’ve got nothing against…
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More from the boy who earlier today said, "Mommy, I'm falling in love with you."
When I picked up Robbie from school today he was reading Goodnight Gorilla to his friends. “Do you see the balloon?” He has such a sweet, tender, open heart.
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They're all losing their tiny minds, so we're staying home to do it together.
All three boys are having incredibly hard times at preschool / daycare this week. When I got to Mike’s classroom Wednesday he was sitting in his cubby crying. Chip had hard days where nothing seemed to be right and he just wanted to eat waffles. Everything made him mad. Even his pants. Robbie got mad…
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Imagine this said with a mad, scowly-face that is cuter than hell
Robbie was being cranky and stomping around the house. He was looking for words to express the pissed-offness he felt all the way down to the corners of his soul. So he busts out with “I want to talk to strangers!” I think this is the 4-year-old equivalent of “fuck you and the horse you…
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Wanna be like a homeschooler, or maybe just have the gear?
Today’s contest prize is a handy book for doing preschool at home. The first person to leave a comment on this post wins the 30 Minute Preschool workbook I reviewed a few weeks ago. If you’re the first commenter (previous winners are not eligible), you’ll then have 24 hours to email me your mailing address…
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Holiday Brain-Drain
I can neither bring home the bacon nor fry it up in a pan. I am unable to keep track of: which of the 3 boys classrooms I have contributed to the teacher gift for which of the 3 boys classrooms needs me to bring in a canned good for Friendship Soup day (and possibly…
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Adoption is not for animals
In case you can’t see it in the screen shot, it says “Adopt by Mail or Fax.” You can adopt any animal at the San Francisco Zoo. Choose your favorite animal species and the “purrfect” Package for you! Animal adoptions make “grrreat” gifts too! Whether it’s an anniversary, new baby, birthday, Earth Day, Father’s Day,…
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You must not like your kids very much, or maybe it's mine you don't like, but either way, cut this shit out!
ANOTHER day where some mom parks in front of the fire hydrant at preschool. Good lord people, don’t you get it? I don’t want my kids on fire. If you want that for your kids, please take care of it on your own time. And then she gets all mad when I very politely mention…