Most of my friends without kids commiserate on being stuck at home with a little one. But if there’s a good age for a first pandemic, well, it’s seven years old.
Browsing Category Elementary School
The Wizard’s Challenge for my 2nd Grader
Mark is chatty. When he starts talking about movies, bad guys and other favourite topics, you’re in for a monologue—he could write a longer The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire, 2nd Grader!
I bet I’ve never mentioned that Mark’s real father is a superhero and that my other child is a world-famous YouTuber.
An Eventless and Very Canadian Grade 2 Back-to-School Day
The first sure sign a new school year was going to start was the noticeable increase of pointless, irrelevant and often grammatically questionable emails we were receiving from Mark’s school.
Grade 1 Completed – By The Way, Did You Know That The Dog is a Bus?
Throughout the school year, shortly before 3 p.m., I would often receive short, cryptic emails from Mark’s school about a “delayed badger” or a “cancelled dog.”
These Waves of Primal, Overwhelming Love – Grade 1
That’s pretty much life with kids. When you least expect it, you get completely overwhelmed by love and a primal instinct to protect, hug, and kiss them.