Parent Teacher Conferences

This is the day, the day that we have all been waiting for, Parent Teacher Conference Day. The conferences start today at the elementary level, here in our district. The kids have half days, today, tomorrow, next Wednesday, and nest Thursday. I remember being a working Mom, and it being a logistical nightmare to figure out, so while I no longer work outside the home, I remember the anguish about the half day! For the first two, I had my Mother and Father to care for the kids on these days, but when my Dad got sick, and then passed away, and when my Mom got sick, that was a real problem. The last year I worked, I made a bargain with my supervisors, I went into work, stayed through arrival, set up the day, and left about 20 minutes before the bus came. To the second sometimes I would make the bus. Odd that the stress didn't kill me, but here I am alive and well. I also left my Day program classroom short staffed, because that was the bargain. The people that I workedd with, they understood, and they were cool with it, but I felt horrible. It was not a good thing. I worked with developmentally disabled adults in a Day treatment setting, rough work, but rewarding. Most people burn out from that type of work, and believe me, I did. I don't think it was the people that I worked with or the people that we actually taught, I think that as the rules change, from HR, each month or week, and then you can't do this or you will be written up or that or the other thing, well, that plus getting beat up on a daily basis, you could get burnt in a relly fast minute. I worked with the population for 12 years, through 3 pregnancies, a surgery, with two and then three kids at home. It was rough.
I digress....Parent teacher conferences. That was the subject here. Ok. I know the drill, there is only 20 minutes alloted for each conference, working parents(both, that is) can have a conference on a designated evening, but if you aren't a working parent, you take the conference when they give it to you. This is the first year that I didn't check that "both parents work" thingy. Scott has come to every conference with me, but not this year. He is working, and I am going to handle it, by myself. I guess he doesn't have any concerns where Miss C is involved. She is so well adjusted, loves school, etc. There doesn't seem to be any problems regarding her development, her social adjustment, and for a kid who didn't go to preschool, she seems to be right on target. I just feel a little sad. This will be my last Kindergarden conference. The boys are almost grown humans, well sometimes the human part is in question! HA HA a little joke there! They have done elementary school, gotten through it and now have moved on to middle school, where the teachers are annonomys beings to parents, unless there are problems. I guess that is a good thing. So, those are my thoughts for today.