He did it. The King of Everything did it.
He read me a book tonight; a whole book. Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo leSieg. He even read it with inflection! A few times he asked me to finish the book for him, but he’d gamely continue when I asked him to do so…
Wow. I […]
I’m getting to the bottom of our troubles with the King of Everything. It’s a combination of things, beginning with an innocent, but ultimately detrimental, tendency to praise his intelligence and ending with the fact that he’s just not interested in everything he is supposed to be doing at school.
I know what to do […]
As I suspected, the King of Everything is falling through the cracks. Too intellectually advanced for his peers, too emotionally immature to advance to Kindergarten, the KoE is going to be stuck between his rock and his hard place this year. And as a single mother, I can’t afford to put him into […]
I suppose the hospital is as good a place as any to have a conversation about biological functions with a four year old.
As we were being discharged from the hospital after my son’s recent surgery, I accompanied him to the bathroom. He grabbed his scrotum, pulled it out from his body to make it more […]
I thank goodness every day for my strong neighborhood coalition of mothers. Without them, I wouldn’t be able to make heads or tails of how our public schools work. Often, our own teachers and principals haven’t got more than the vaguest of confidence that how we’re doing something conforms to how it should be done. […]
Solo Mother: All the responsibility. Half the time.
Written by Christina Zola for b5media.
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