Some parental advice from all the lovely parentals? Non parentals also welcome :D

[Losty]

On a lighter note, Leli got her first citation last week and then very quickly had it stricken from her record lol. I try not to be that "my kid can do no wrong" kind of parent, because I think those people are annoying and my kids certainly have their moments of being assholes. But this situation I had to go in and so no sorry this isn't ok. She was written up for refusing to do the fact families. Generally I would tell her that she's never allowed to refuse to do school work.

Let me show you about fact families.

3, 6, and 9.

Doing fact families:
3+6=9
6+3=9
9-3=6
9-6=3

Her teacher explained this to the class as such:
The dad is a 9 because he's the biggest
The mom is a 6 because she's smaller than the dad but bigger than the baby
The baby is a 3 because she's the littlest

In the morning the baby wakes the mom and the dad goes to work
3+6=9

Throughout the day the mom cares for the baby while the dad works
6+3=9

The dad comes home and plays with baby while mom cooks dinner
9-3=6

Mom and dad have spend time together after baby goes to bed
9-6=3

After speaking with the teacher I learned that Leli didn't actually refuse to do the work. She was apparently "disrupting the class" by insisting that this explanation makes no sense because all families are different. Ha. So I had talk with Leli about it before the parent teacher conference and I just told her that sometimes grown-ups don't like to be told when they're wrong, but that I don't think she did anything wrong whether or not they removed the citation I was still proud of her. Luckily, they did remove it.

Now if I could get my son to stop getting up and trying to "go play outside" without permission in the middle of class