It was wonderful to get away, even though I was pretty well tethered to work with the Blackberry and the cottage’s wireless connection. We read books. We cooked food and ate out. We swam in the ocean and walked the Boardwalk. We played arcade games and made gigantic bubbles in the backyard.
And every time we […]
The KoE is whiny mush by the time 7PM comes around, but the family wanted to represent at the PTA meeting tonight, and the older grades were demonstrating the games they developed for the Sally Ride toy competition, and the KoE was abuzz and agog at the idea of Staying Up Late! Playing with the […]
I didn’t comment on all your wonderful notes regarding the King of Everything’s difficulties at school, mostly because I was so overwhelmed by the depth of information and the breadth of compassion you have all shown for that lovely little creature who shares my life.
Thank you.
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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 […]
Apparently, that’s my title this week. The King of Everything is the most drama-ridden not-even-14 year old who ever rode in on the Pre-K Express, and it’s all my fault. Or it’s his grammy’s fault. Or it’s his Grandpa’s fault. I could play pop psychologist and surmise that he’s angry and sad and hurt that […]
I suck. Everything was going well, on the surface. A friend picked up the King of Everything for a playdate with her daughter — his bestest friend in the whole wide world. Great! I show up to make dinner for everyone, and he’s happily playing, pretending to ice skate on some old carpenter knee pads. […]
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