Today we will be going meet with the Vice Principal & C's math/spelling teacher regarding a day last week in which she was given five detentions for talking in class during a clay project (not direct instruction time).  This teacher has singled out C all year, but being called out for talking inappropriately is reasonable imho, even if you're the ( Read more... )

( Tween drama, safely behind cut... )

Went in and reported the incident to the assistant principal. He thanked me for telling him - evidently he never would have known otherwise, which seems really somehow wrong to me, but I can't imagine how you'd go about fixing it so that the cops would alert the school. He's giving C the option of taking lunch detention so she can walk home with a ( Read more... )

I am not one to stay awake nights worrying. To the contrary, when I'm upset all I want to do is go to sleep and sink softly into oblivion. I have been known to sleep well past 15 hours if things are bad enough. But it seems there is one thing that will keep me awake: my daughter's safety.

( The details are long and sort of painful... )

Did I say I wouldn't be going back to an amusement park anytime soon?  I must have, because the universe loves nothing more than irony, and I did find myself at one for the second weekend in a row.

C's dad had a deadline Today so at the last minute he sent her to us for his weekend so he could work & be ready to leave town for yesterday's booty call ( Read more... )

J just called me after dropping C off at Aikido for their summer swim party today. He asked her if she had her cell with her just in case & she said no, because it "fell out of her hands" & spent the night in the yard, in the pouring rain. Now lights come on even when it's off.

Now, a little background: I got her a cell phone because neither her ( Read more... )