Math is Hard

So is keeping it together after a long week

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Boy, the emotions lately. I’m hoping this is a phase and it doesn’t last from ages right now to Eighteen but I don’t have much hope.

She can be fine one minute and then a full on snotty and teary mess the next.

Tonight I came home from driving around strangers and as soon as I got out of the car I could hear her. It made me stop and think about going inside and helping BW with whatever the disaster was that was happening on the other side of the door.

But on the other side of the door was pizza. So priorities and all that

It took me a while to figure out what was going on but apparently she asked mommy to play school with her so BW made her some “homework” to do and whatever mommy was doing it was all wrong. All of it. We still don’t know what the “it” was exactly but eventually she got over it.

There was a good 12 questions on there with both addition and subtraction and BW likes a challenge (she married me afterall) and wanted to challenge the child a bit too.

When the child sees something that looks hard, she puts up a fuss and usually dear old Dad would cave and do it for her. I know. I never said I was parent of the year.

Tonight I looked at all her questions placed in front of her and realized she could use her fingers to could. I tried to tell her this but she would have none of that and was at one point telling me that she doesn’t have enough fingers. I told her she does have 10 fingers because that’s the first thing I did when I met her was to count them.

This didn’t help anyway and eventually BW and I just ignored her and let her get her emotions in check and then it was dinnertime so whatever, right.

Well, it turns out she can count and has the right number of fingers.

Except. Except!

Later we found the “homework” on the kitchen counter. After all the tears and protests she did the homework when we weren’t looking.

Perfect Score!

Tonight’s Grading : A for Math but C for emotions.

Until Next Time,

TH and Co.