I am this close to not going to work tomorrow. One of the people I work with need me to cover for her because she is 'stuck in Aruba'. I am trying SO FREAKING HARD not to go ballistic.
I'm sure my parents hated them as well.....i loved them as a kid, especially when you got to see them all and see the awesome ones, you know the ones the parents actually made:giggle1:
really? I hate science
Thank goodness this teacher deducts for ones that the parents obviously did more work than the child. It's four months into the school year - she knows what your child is capable of.
Both my DD's love science, and I really don't have a problem with it either, but these things cause such drama and tears when it doesn't go right and I just say, try again. DD9 actually yelled at me today when I refused to re-do parts for her.
Thank goodness this teacher deducts for ones that the parents obviously did more work than the child. It's four months into the school year - she knows what your child is capable of.
Both my DD's love science, and I really don't have a problem with it either, but these things cause such drama and tears when it doesn't go right and I just say, try again. DD9 actually yelled at me today when I refused to re-do parts for her.
they dont use a science book, so he brings home these sheets where he has to match the vocab word with the defination but you have no book so we try to look them up on the net it sucks
I hope you jumped on that like it was a spider monkey
:huggy:I am this close to not going to work tomorrow. One of the people I work with need me to cover for her because she is 'stuck in Aruba'. I am trying SO FREAKING HARD not to go ballistic.
You guys are nice moms! My parents very rarely helped me with homework or projects. In fifth grade I had to make a totem pole, and all I could think of was to carve potatoes and put them on a shish-ke-bab skewer. The paint didn't stay on the carved (wet) parts of the poptato and what I hadn't anticipated is that the carved parts got shriveled and brown by the next morning when I got to school. Other kids had awesome professional-looking projects... I didn't understand how they did it. Now I get it.
Another time, maybe 7th grade, I was doing a science project. My partner's parents had some leftover deck stain, so we decided to paint some pieces of wood with different stains and compare how the different brands held up to days in the freezer and heat treatments in the oven. The only help I got was "you are not doing that in my house!" It turned out pretty lame looking. Other kids had better ideas and slicker displays.
This is exactly why I go above and beyond to try and help my children. While they do not get straight A's (not by a long shot) I try, try and try again to help them understand. Depending on what the project is, if its science, I give it to their dad. He is such a good builder. Whether its styrofoam, wire and clips or using wood or almost anything, he has it covered. I am more the book helper. Math, reading, language arts, social studies. What we can't do together we google, youtube or wahtever so they GET it.
My mom, was "old school" and your on your own. I barely passed most of my projects because she wouldn't help.
and Charlie, you should have seen the mansion you bought for us to live in..I kept asking myself, how did he afford this???
your dd sounds like mine. She gets frustrated and yells and has a meltdown when she doesn't understand her math.No, she was frustrated and has a tough time expressing herself.
We're working on it and we did talk about it after the meltdown was over.
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