One parent’s utter dismay at her daughter’s first-grade experience

Tama Koss Caldarone has been a child abuse prosecutor for more than 12 years in Florida and recently quit teaching and writing law practice. She and her husband have two children aged six, but their eldest daughter is currently attending public school.

My daughter is now 30 years old and I have my daughter. I was in her house, I was in her kitchen, I am very depressed, she seems to be my mother more than me. She somehow became an expert to cook junk food. She became an expert in raising four people at a ridiculous low price regardless of health and nutrition. I completely failed! For 17 years I cooked for my daughter, but I have never taught her how to cook her under a wing under my wings in a healthy way. I did not say anything to her how to make eggs and how to toast! How can I ignore the responsibilities of my mother's parents? How can I be so nerd?

When my eldest daughter was a freshman, she seemed to have problems almost everyday. When we held a meeting with our first parent and teacher, she was strongly criticized for "opposite attitude". What is worrying further is that the teacher evaluated our emotional and intellectual development of our daughter. At the same time, my daughter began to complain about abdominal pain every morning, and the teacher was convinced that it was just the way she tried to get a ticket from class. As a new parent taught to respect the teacher, their words are essentially "the Gospel" and I think that my daughter is really disciplined and needs to be taken into account.

I was even surprised how many parents cried after seeing parents and teachers in the first year before school. When discussing with my parents that my daughter's academic and social emotional skills were different from linguistic skills, fun, very linguistic mothers of children were obviously disappointed. She believed that he was leading the skills of other kindergartens thanks to his daughter's language skills. Mothers are not sure what to expect at this age and are missing some opportunities to help her daughter grow at school. I missed the opportunity she helped me get these tools.