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I know there's a lot of personal issues and beliefs we all have in different situations, but when we try to instill these into our children and then hope they are able to go out into the world well educated with an understanding why we believe in what we believe and then they are able to stand up for these beliefs with approval, it just makes parenting a whole lot easier.
As a family concern and personal belief we do not participate in Halloween nor allow our girls to read Harry Potter. We don't stand on the street corners and tell eveyone they shouldn't either, because quite frankly, this is still America and freedom of speech and religion is still available last I knew and nobody can say who's right and who's wrong. Anyways....
My oldest daughter, Sarah, 10, has a teacher neither one of us were sure we'd get along with at the beginning of the year. I recall me posting that it was like going into "bootcamp" for 4th graders.
Well, said teacher reads a book a few minutes before school lets out to the children every day. No problem here. However, said teacher informs the kids they would be listening to her read Harry Potter the weeks before Halloween. Of course Sarah comes home and shares this with me and we have a talk about how she feels about it and go into our personal reasons why its not appropriate for our family. In any case, she gets the point and is left with the responsibility to inform the teacher in a polite, respectful manner, away from the other students, that she is not allowed to read, listen or watch Harry Potter because of the reasons we talked about.
On monday, Sarah was able to do exactly everything. She talked to the teacher aside and told her our family rules to the teacher. Sarah said the teacher was very nice and allowed Sarah to go out into the hall, which is also the middle learning center for the 3rd & 4th graders, to read her A/R book (accelerated reading) for her personal points ladder of reading.
The point? The teacher said yes to an alternative and was willing to give Sarah grace with no hard problems or issues and allowed her the freedom to express herself and chose that alternative.
At this point I'm soo thrilled and beaming with delight that there is a glimmer of hope we did something right in the parenting department in the last 10 years along with having a great feeling the drill sargeant we thought we were getting at the beginning of the year actually turned into a wonderful teacher.
Thanks for reading.
It's been a long week, but a proud one
As a family concern and personal belief we do not participate in Halloween nor allow our girls to read Harry Potter. We don't stand on the street corners and tell eveyone they shouldn't either, because quite frankly, this is still America and freedom of speech and religion is still available last I knew and nobody can say who's right and who's wrong. Anyways....
My oldest daughter, Sarah, 10, has a teacher neither one of us were sure we'd get along with at the beginning of the year. I recall me posting that it was like going into "bootcamp" for 4th graders.
Well, said teacher reads a book a few minutes before school lets out to the children every day. No problem here. However, said teacher informs the kids they would be listening to her read Harry Potter the weeks before Halloween. Of course Sarah comes home and shares this with me and we have a talk about how she feels about it and go into our personal reasons why its not appropriate for our family. In any case, she gets the point and is left with the responsibility to inform the teacher in a polite, respectful manner, away from the other students, that she is not allowed to read, listen or watch Harry Potter because of the reasons we talked about.
On monday, Sarah was able to do exactly everything. She talked to the teacher aside and told her our family rules to the teacher. Sarah said the teacher was very nice and allowed Sarah to go out into the hall, which is also the middle learning center for the 3rd & 4th graders, to read her A/R book (accelerated reading) for her personal points ladder of reading.
The point? The teacher said yes to an alternative and was willing to give Sarah grace with no hard problems or issues and allowed her the freedom to express herself and chose that alternative.
At this point I'm soo thrilled and beaming with delight that there is a glimmer of hope we did something right in the parenting department in the last 10 years along with having a great feeling the drill sargeant we thought we were getting at the beginning of the year actually turned into a wonderful teacher.
Thanks for reading.
It's been a long week, but a proud one
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. I'm very sorry if this has been viewed in that respect because it was not my intent whatsoever. Just as I stated in the very beginning of this post that I made...(see the beginning of my post) 
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