What NOT to do when I am a parent
I will never:
Second guess my child’s teacher so much that I frequently visit the principal - the teacher’s boss- to pose the questions I have when really the only person who could really help me is the teacher herself, but I am too chicken shit to talk to her myself!!!!!
Demand my child’s teacher treat him as if he is more special than the other kids in the class.
Not read the newsletters my child brings home weekly.
Blame the teacher when my child is an asshole and doesn’t follow directions.
Ask for special favors from my child’s teacher, implying that A) she must not have a life and B) that my child is the most important one in the class of 25+
Let my child be “responsible” enough to bring me papers. After several days I will MOST DEFINITELY be looking in the backpack, so as not to have the teacher clean it out and find papers from the PREVIOUS SCHOOL YEAR still in it!
Smoke and let my child and her work go to school and STINK to the high heavens.
Think the my ADHA child is hyperactive because he is really a genius, therefore needing no help in self control and thereby being excused from all rules regarding self discipline.
Do my child’s homework for him and then be stupid enough to confront the teacher about the one’s I, er he, got wrong.
Forget how wonderful the teacher is and be sure to bring her presents on the holidays - especially if my child is an asshole or needs extra attention.
Let my kid stay home because “she didn’t feel like going” to school.
Ask the teacher if it’s “OK” for my child to miss or if they are “Doing anything important”
Ask the teacher to stay until late in the evening for a conference. Instead, I will take some time off work to go to my child’s conference.
*additions may be added as often as needed
