Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Mom Mistake
Reading for content. It's such an important skill.
But it wasn't until I was looking over the part of Mike's learner's permit form *I* needed to fill out that I noticed the official part from the teacher was only good for 30 days. 30 days which were well past.
I went to the school and asked if the teacher could just fill out another one, but no. You know how all that legal jazz always works. So now Mike has to retake the written exam.
Happily, he took this set-back in stride. Once in a while, he actually acts OLDER than his age!
Which reminds me of a Mike story. In the interest of developing good hygiene habits, we let him pick his own deodorant. His choice is Axe spray-on. I thought it might be because of the TV ads where ladies go mildly insane over the men wafting this scent around. So one day I asked him casually if the ads were true and girls did like the smell.
He answered me with a comically irritated huff. "I can't be stopping in the hall to let girls sniff me! I have to get to class!"
He sounded just like he knew he SHOULD do this, noblesse oblige and all that, but he didn't want to because he KNEW it would turn into a bigger and bigger hassle over time.
Somehow I found it very relieving.
But it wasn't until I was looking over the part of Mike's learner's permit form *I* needed to fill out that I noticed the official part from the teacher was only good for 30 days. 30 days which were well past.
I went to the school and asked if the teacher could just fill out another one, but no. You know how all that legal jazz always works. So now Mike has to retake the written exam.
Happily, he took this set-back in stride. Once in a while, he actually acts OLDER than his age!
Which reminds me of a Mike story. In the interest of developing good hygiene habits, we let him pick his own deodorant. His choice is Axe spray-on. I thought it might be because of the TV ads where ladies go mildly insane over the men wafting this scent around. So one day I asked him casually if the ads were true and girls did like the smell.
He answered me with a comically irritated huff. "I can't be stopping in the hall to let girls sniff me! I have to get to class!"
He sounded just like he knew he SHOULD do this, noblesse oblige and all that, but he didn't want to because he KNEW it would turn into a bigger and bigger hassle over time.
Somehow I found it very relieving.
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