Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Sign Here

As the girls get older, they get busier. Every parent of kids over four knows this.

And if your kids got to school (as opposed to being homeschooled) you know that the higher their grade level, the more things they need you to sign.

Alyssa has a spelling list each week. She has to write it out three times on Monday evenings and I have to sign the page on which she’s written the words.

She had a calendar in which she writes her assignments each day. Her teacher initials every student’s calendar every single day. I have to sign below the teacher’s initials each day.

She has to practice the recorder for at least an hour each week (she prefers to practice much more than that) and I have to sign her practice sheet. I guess that one is just to show that a parent knows she’s supposed to be practicing and that she is, indeed, as far as the parent knows, practicing.

Let’s not forget the report card envelopes, that need to be signed and returned asap, thank you very much.

I get that this is an attempt to get and keep parents involved. But damn, I write my name A LOT these days.

And it seems to have to happen five minutes before I need to walk out the door each morning for work. Alyssa will remember that this needs to be signed and that needs to be signed, oh, and one more piece of paper needs you to sign it, please. And all this is happening as I’m attempting to dry my hair while Olivia rummages through the drawers in the bathroom looking through the fingernail polish colors, probably hoping to find a color she hasn’t seen before, which never happens because I haven’t bought fingernail polish in, well, forever.

I suggested gently to Alyssa this morning that perhaps we can start trying to remember to sign everything in the evenings, when things aren’t quite so hectic. She shrugged, as if to say, “Yeah, whatever. We’ll see if that actually happens.”

Then I mentioned that her dad can sign too, even when I am in the house. She replied, “I know, but I like your signature better.”

Oh. Well. Okay, then.

I heard Tom snickering in the other room as she said this. I tell you, that man has it made.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are so right and it goes on through middle and high school. When my kids get home they take thier jackets, shoes and book bags to thier rooms and on the way out the grab their agendas and take home folders and drop it on my computer table than they go wash there hands and eat their sandwich. It works well for me to review later in the evening, otherwise I would totally forget.

Anonymous said...

You are so right and it goes on through middle and high school. When my kids get home they take thier jackets, shoes and book bags to thier rooms and on the way out the grab their agendas and take home folders and drop it on my computer table than they go wash there hands and eat their sandwich. It works well for me to review later in the evening, otherwise I would totally forget.

Tiffany said...

It drives me crazy...all the signing!!!

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