Why oh why do I feel more accountable to the PRE SCHOOL teacher (who is like 14) about the state of my son, than my own self?
All she says today is that Adam isn’t great with his alphabet and that they are working on it together.
Great, I should think….and walk away.
Instead I am standing there babbling about how we really DO try to work on it with him but his attention span and all that…..babble sputter…..
Pathetic.
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Been there
Done that!
I think it is natural that we think that we should be doing more as parents when teachers say things like that.
But, he is in preschool. Preschool was meant to teach kids to socialize and have fun, not to learn what they should be learning in school.
It is putting kids that don’t go to preschool in a horrible place when they go to school with kids that have been in preschool. As far as Adam goes, he has a long time before he has to ‘know’ that stuff and with his great imagination it is far too soon to worry too much about academics.
I was bugged today when my 3-year-old nephew named all the alphabet magnets as he put them back on the blackboard in our playroom. My son, who is six months older than his cousin, just said the letter O over and over again as he put them back. At least he cleaned them up but I wonder why he doesn’t know his alphabet as well as his younger cousin since I spend so much damn time with him using flash cards and singing damn letter songs. We all compare. We all get frustrated. Our kids somehow are never we want them to be. Outside criticism cuts deeper. It’s all a bit too shitty sometimes.
Don’t worry. Teachers have a fantastic ability to make you feel like a bad parent, even if they don’t mean to.
crunch i love the new blog, the look of it, the feel of it, everything!
smiles, bee
I never explain those things to the teacher, because I figure that is their area. Why else do I pay all that money? You better get to teaching, teacher.
However, I do feel the need to explain my child’s behavior. Sorry, Amber didnt sleep well today, but I was tormenting her all day with songs from the ’80’s. It wont happen again. *hanging head*