A mommy brag

This morning was DS2’s parent teacher conference. As a parent, this day is about as unnerving as a trip to the principals office when you were a kid! So many of the ones I attended for DS1 were just horrible for me. I cried during one! Manage to hold back my tears a second time. I was always alone facing the teacher, DS1 had difficulties in school..groan..not pleasant at all! Now, with DS2 it has been better, but still there seems to have been *something* significant each time that we needed to follow up on. At least there is a WE now. Even though his dad and I are divorced, we are a good parenting team. I mean, I have always thought that we are. Even as DS2 has had his issues at school here and there, the teachers every year compliment us on our teamwork. One even said she would not have known he came from divorced parents from just watching him! But still..I am always nervous!! Sure enough too, in January we got emails from both his main teacher and his music teacher that he was falling behind, not giving his full efforts. Grrrrr. We crack down. Remove his electronic games and tv, log practice time on his drums, generally suffer through two weeks of punishment with him 🙂 I figured we would hear some references to this struggle, see some grades fall because of the late work etc. What a shock! The only reference to January was the teacher telling us how impressed she was with how quickly we responded to her email and how well we had done getting DS2 back on track! Not only back on track she said, but he has been better than ever since then. Better prepared, more on task in the classroom, more confident if that is possible! She just complimented us and thanked us over and over! His grades are all B’s or B+, with one A-. She did say that the B’s would be A’s if he had not had that period of missed assignments. Still though – his dad and I walked out of there and looked at each other and just shrugged and said “well, at least this time WE don’t have any homework to do!”