Tagged: school

Crowds of parents at theatre

Trials of being a parent

Being a parent is like fighting for a seat on a RyanAir flight. Everyone is out for themselves and the weak are trampled.

School lunch

My son recently got back from a school trip to Tallinn, Estonia where his class visited another school. A nice...

I have a (5th grade) dream…

I visited my 5th grade son’s school earlier this week and I noticed kids’ projects taped to the wall for...

Old Timey Days

Our son (11 yrs old): Our class wants to do an “Old Timey Day” at school.   Us (picturing frontier...

Summer Camp

In Sweden, most kids through Grade 3 have the opportunity for a free-time club through the schools during the summer. ...

Twins

My oldest son has twins in his class. I said, “Are they identical twins or fraternal?” He replied, “There are...

Don’t Mess With Texas

There’s a parent at my kid’s school that is ….. hm…. how shall we say….. not a nice person. I...

Playground politics

I’ve been reading a book recently on World War 2 and was trying to mention a few things to my...

Fish sticks

My 7 year old was very disappointed with his school lunch: “Ugh! They had fish sticks at school today, and...

HORRORtines!

My son is going to a party at his school this evening.  No, it’s not a Valentine’s party.  Because this...

A 10 year old with a phone

Now that my son has to travel on his own to school, we gave him his own phone. Giving a...

Straight E’s!

I just realized that I forgot to report how I did in my most recent Swedish class. I got an...

Students

You see, when the kids graduate in Sweden, they load them up on trucks and take them away to their...

My half-Texan son

I found out that my son hit another boy last week at school.  My son is normally very calm and...

Will it never end?

You think I’m joking when I say everything about in Sweden is about Abba, but here is today’s homework in...

Be careful what you ask

Our Swedish teacher asked our class of students from all over the world today what we thought was different about...