A few nights ago was Zoe's first third grade parent/teacher conference. I have to admit I was a little nervous going in. I think she's incredible -- smart, talented, funny -- but what if her teacher doesn't agree? What if she's got some horrible ways that I just can't see? What if I'm really a terrible mother and it shows all day every day of third grade??? Of course this was not my first parent/teacher conference, but what if Zoe had fooled all the teachers before and, at last, her third grade teacher was going to give me the awful truth?
OK, that didn't happen. In reality she's doing really well. She's excelling in reading, writing, and P.E. (that last one did not come from me). She's enjoying Social Studies and the research project they are doing on Native Americans. She needs to pay more attention to her handwriting (her sloppy handwriting also definitely not from me) and her math. Her teacher seems to genuinely like her and even when Rob and I made a few jokes about Zoe's tendency to talk a lot, her teacher did not really jump on the bandwagon and said she is quite attentive in class.
It kind of feels like walking on air when you walk out of a meeting like that knowing your kid is doing just fine.
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Oh, good grief, I could have told you all that about Zoe! (Not that I'm biased or anything...) But, really, it's human to have all those nervous feelings going into something like that. Reason number 1, 546,000 that having children is not for the faint of heart. I promise you, though: you're doing a splendid job of parenting, so just, you know tell all those "bad mother" fears to take a hike.
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