Congratulations. If your experience is the same as mine, her teacher will be introducing a new concept (whether reading, ‘riting or ‘rithmetic) every two weeks. Do spend the twenty minutes or so every evening to go through her homework with her. Another twenty to read together. Together, now, not just you to her.
The other thing is, she’ll come home starving because they would rather socialize with their friends rather than finish their lunch. 😉
I have two, Mugwump and Princette, 23 and 18. Love them to death while they’re little, those are the really fun years. When you can hug them without getting a funny look, and they still hug back. A hog from a child is a blessed thing.
When you can hug them without getting a funny look, and they still hug back.
The second to last time my father kissed me, I was eleven. The last time, when I was thirty-four and had just gotten married. I’m fifty-four, now, and he’s gone. My mother, too. When I cannot sleep at three in the morning, I picture them when they were thirty-nine and I was eleven and it comforts me.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Mine starts second grade next month…
We’re talking about giving TheBoy his own computer now…
July 27th, 2010 at 10:41 am
i have my kids an old laptop of mine last year. amazing that my barely 4 year-old son son can’t read but he can find the spongebob games online.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:43 am
A remember my daughter registering last year, I think. Maybe the year before . . .
Now she is in her second year at Georgia Tech. Enjoy it while you can.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Congratulations. If your experience is the same as mine, her teacher will be introducing a new concept (whether reading, ‘riting or ‘rithmetic) every two weeks. Do spend the twenty minutes or so every evening to go through her homework with her. Another twenty to read together. Together, now, not just you to her.
The other thing is, she’ll come home starving because they would rather socialize with their friends rather than finish their lunch. 😉
July 27th, 2010 at 11:00 am
TheBoy wants my Eee. I’m happy to donate it to his schoolboy needs – because it means I can get a bigger one for me… 😉
July 27th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
I think it was George Carlin who answered the question of “Where does the time go?”
Cleveland.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Man, Jay, when I was his age I had to go off in the woods where the highschool kids partied to look for discarded porn!
July 27th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
My two oldest are starting first grade this year as well.
July 27th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Now the indoctrination will begin in earnest!
July 27th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I didnt realize it then, but looking back over the years, when the kids were little was the best time…
July 27th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I have two, Mugwump and Princette, 23 and 18. Love them to death while they’re little, those are the really fun years. When you can hug them without getting a funny look, and they still hug back. A hog from a child is a blessed thing.
July 27th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Uhmm, aw, nevermind.
July 27th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Pups, alla ya’ll.
My grandson starts first grade this year.
I musta took a nap or something…
July 29th, 2010 at 3:45 am
When you can hug them without getting a funny look, and they still hug back.
The second to last time my father kissed me, I was eleven. The last time, when I was thirty-four and had just gotten married. I’m fifty-four, now, and he’s gone. My mother, too. When I cannot sleep at three in the morning, I picture them when they were thirty-nine and I was eleven and it comforts me.