I almost got my actual tiger mom friend to send me the name of her child’s tutor. I text two of my teacher friends and get them to talk me down. I start thinking that maybe my mom was right after all, and I need to get flash cards and a tutor. I wonder if my not as great math skills have paired with my husbands not as great verbal skills and we have somehow produced a child that has inherited the worst of each of our academic abilities. I wonder if she has ADHD too (I have been thinking she does) and it’s suddenly gotten way worse.
LOSE YOUR MARBLES NORDSTROM TV
I blame myself for all the TV I let her watch during covid-times, I blame myself for not reading to her more. Out of the 18 things they measure, she got the worst possible score on 9 of them, the next to worst possible score on 7 of them, and a mediocre score on 2 of them. Like, shockingly horrible given everything we know about our child’s academic history. So I look at the two page print out of the results behind the letter and they are HORRIBLE. We were both very burned out by this experience and have had many conversations where we have vowed to each other to never to put this amount of pressure on our kids.įast forward to the end of last week and I get a letter sent home in kiddo’s folder about standardized test scores. Academics were our number one priority, they came before everything, there was an immense amount of pressure, only a 4.0 was acceptable, we aced all our standardized tests, graduated from great colleges with honors, blah blah blah. So the background is that my sister and I were raised by a white lady version of a tiger mom. Want to hear a funny story about how having a kid makes you lose your marbles from time to time? I want to re establish good will when I’m back at work. Maybe a blessing since I don’t want baby to get sick but they haven’t even tried – I think I’m just annoyed that I feel like I’m getting this almost ultimatum. In laws also haven’t made plans to fly down and meet newest grandkid even though she’s six weeks old and they’re an hour and a half flight away and don’t mind traveling during COVID. FWIW DH works insane hours and never takes vacation – I’m a bit confused how he plans to take a week off twice so close together… I’m returning from maternity leave at the end of December so maybe I’m concerned about taking a week for Presidents’ Day and a week for spring break three weeks later? My job is totally in the office but has always been sort of an honor system on vacations of take how much you feel comfortable? We could also just not travel for spring break? I was just really seeing this as a long weekend with an extra day sort of thing. I don’t know why I’m so annoyed – the kids are young and can miss school.
Last night he told me he finally got it worked out (based on MILs work schedule and we’ll visit Monday to Saturday of Presidents’ Day weekend. We haven’t seen dhs grandmother in two years and I’d like us to! This is on him! I finally laid out that kids are out of school week of thanksgiving, between Christmas and New Years, MLK, Presidents’ Day, spring break and Easter weekend.