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Comments on: I found myself defending my choices to a first-grader https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/ Finding the funny in it all... Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:31:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: amber https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-668 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:47:48 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-668 this cracks me up!
I used to work in Sweet Pea’s classroom for kinder and first grade and loved it but the children were quite precocious and I found myself justifying to them more often than I cared!
<3's

Amber

]]> By: Mindy https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-645 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:50:10 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-645 In reply to Angelia Sims.

Yeah, you just wait until they get old enough to insult you in about a 100 different ways…all with a little innocent look on their faces. It’s disconcerting… =)
Mindy

]]> By: Mindy https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-644 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:48:58 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-644 In reply to Spot.

You sure have that right! But it makes me wonder…are the other mommy volunteers thinking MY kid is annoying as I think their kids are? =)
Mindy

]]> By: Mindy https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-643 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:47:47 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-643 In reply to Mindee@ourfrontdoor.

Yeah, those first graders are a tough audience! They are too young to filter themselves and too old to fear us!
Mindy

]]> By: Mindy https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-642 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:46:33 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-642 In reply to Marly.

I have had a really good time. I volunteered last year in her Kindergarten classroom…what a world of difference between K and 1st Grade! =)
Mindy

]]> By: Angelia Sims https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-641 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:12:33 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-641 Hi Mindy,
What a cute post. That’s really funny. I love volunteering, typically, it’s in the Church nursery with kids that can’t talk (after your story I’m so glad). I think he is on to you…..

😉

]]> By: Spot https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-640 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:23:07 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-640 Hehehe. Nothing like a kid to put you on the spot. Well, ok. Kids and old people. Neither have that “tact” gene where they realize their questions are rude and none of their business.

I volunteered alot at the kids schools when they were little. Nothing like time spent with other people’s kids to make you realize how much you like your own!!

♥Spot

]]> By: Mindee@ourfrontdoor https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-639 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:03:07 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-639 Oh first graders. I am on recess duty with them for five minutes and it’s about five minutes too long. I’m so relieved to blow the whistle and see the third graders come running out.

You are a good mommy and a good volunteer. I’m sure the teacher values your commitment!

]]> By: Marly https://www.thesuburbanlife.com/stuff/i-found-myself-defending-my-choices-to-a-first-grader/#comment-637 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:36:15 +0000 http://www.thesuburbanlife.com/?p=548#comment-637 It is so great that you volunteer for your son’s school. I did that with my daughter too and thought it was a blast. Hmmm, a good comparison between first graders and politicians. I never thought about it that way, but it seems very appropriate sometimes!

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