On the Sunday before Rowan was about to start school on Tuesday, I got text confirmation that I’d be subbing two hatha yoga classes at a multi-franchise fitness centre. Two different locations, actually, in two different Metro Vancouver cities. My first subbing, procured through a Facebook call out. Yes! I can do it, I reply….
Tag: education
Secrets of a former loser
“And what was your high school experience like?” I’m sitting round a dinner table with three women I’ve only met once before. Two are my fellow volunteers for a poetry outreach society (how cool is that?!). The questioner is the society’s kindly executive director who pays us monthly with a savoury home-cooked meal, red wine…
Why I got FED UP and Signed Up to Homeschool
Big Brother had his last day of kindergarten last week, but you wouldn’t know it by activities going on. No last day party, no family picnic, no mini-graduation. Just a small grocery bag of papers and art projects from the year. Maybe this wouldn’t niggle me so much, except the French Immersion classes, in the…
It’s okay to parent your kids to be introverts
I just love this blog I found on the Huffington Post. It’s getting at why I feel so uncomfortable with my child’s report declaring that he’s lacking in public speaking skills. Maybe it isn’t a skill I need to ‘work with him’ on, but a personality trait. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tara-mandarano/introvert_b_9703690.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-parents#
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