Half-days of school the past couple of days. The school is going through its period of parent-teacher conferences. We met with both the kids’ teachers today right after lunch.
The lass is doing well. The most amusing moment was an anecdote the teacher related where the lass got a “True or False” question wrong, but the way the question was worded the lass was insisting she got it right. The teacher explained she was wrong, but the lass was having none of it. We see this behavior in her and the boy as well. They can become very obstinate when they’re wrong about something, insisting over and over they are, in fact, right because of some narrow definition they concoct in their little heads. It’s… annoying because they’ll suck you down to their level in a heartbeat, complete with little chants and sticking out the tongue. Hey- I’ve got to win the argument somehow.
The boy, too, is doing well. Like the lass before him, his teacher has picked up on a tick of his where his work is concerned: he does it too fast. Her words were something to the effect “It’s like he has to be the first one done.” Obviously, here at home, he’s got no one to compete with. But he does tend to rush his work and make sloppy mistakes. The vast majority of corrections the Wife and I have him make are the variety that would be either be caught quick or not happen at all if he took a little more care, particularly where writing is concerned. Here again, his teacher concurred.
But in all, good news by and large. Certainly good enough for Santa to keep them on the “Nice” list.