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Mom hopes to be a better student the second time around
I was never what you would call an “exemplary student.” I did OK in school, but probably could have done better.
Homework was just a nuisance that kept me from spending more time with my beloved horse and taking the extra time to check my work? Forget it.
Despite my shortcomings, I did manage to graduate with a BS in Agriculture (agriculture communications to be specific - and no I don’t talk to cows) from Ohio State.
Now I am the mother of school age children.
My oldest son is in first grade and already he brings home, you guessed it, homework.
Noah is already doing higher math than I ever did (thus, he can’t possibly be my child). He has a worksheet to complete four days a week.
All went well until he brought one home that actually threw mommy for a loop. I had to read the directions at least 18 times before I could explain to him - correctly - what to do.
Seems as though I’ll be learning a few new things, too, as my kids go through school.
Thank goodness for erasers and my insistence that he use pencil.
As badly as he wanted to run off and play, Noah even checked his work when I told him if he didn’t, he’d end up just like mommy who had to correct her work at home the next day (quite often).
I wasn’t surprised by Noah having homework, but I was surprised at my reaction to it.
When he brought home an assignment for his first “project” I actually groaned.
Some things never change.
Although, I believe my groaning was aimed more at the fact that this project required photographs.
Anyone who knows me will tell you I am a picture-taking-maniac.
However, I fail these days to develop the precious digital pics I snap.
Sifting through the computer files stuffed with our precious family memories for Noah’s timeline (all of 7-years) is more homework for me than him. (Do I even own photo printing paper and index cards?)
True to my rep as a procrastinator though, when the due date for Noah’s timeline project was moved to the 27th, I did a little dance (to the tune of Noah’s “homework” for piano class).
But, I’m determined to be a better student the second time around. By the time Elena is working on her timeline (in about six years), I plan to have all of the photos developed.
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