momswithbrains.com » grassisgreener http://momswithbrains.com Wed, 26 May 2010 01:10:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Overheard conversation between my 10 and 6 year old: http://momswithbrains.com/2009/12/overheard-conversation-between-my-10-and-6-year-old/ http://momswithbrains.com/2009/12/overheard-conversation-between-my-10-and-6-year-old/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:32:38 +0000 grassisgreener http://momswithbrains.com/?p=332 Abby do you believe in God?

No

I do.

Why?

I don’t know?

Well, how do you know? Where is he?

I don’t know – I think he lives with poor people…

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The reason for this lightbulb flash? Three of them are now in school. This means I get 3 sets of instructions from at least 6 sets of teachers; 3 sets of homework; 3 sets of e-mails with sometimes harmless content and sometimes nail-biting, jaw-dropping, teeth-gnashing stories.

These e-mails are new. I never got e-mails until this year. Why am I getting e-mails now? In a word: Buffy.

She is 5- precocious, sassy, smart, funny and hell-bent on giving me a full-on anxiety attack. Last month’s sassiness morphed into outright stubbornness and rude behavior followed by punching, kicking and the oft-heard “I don’t understand what you’re saying!” We have been e-mailed at least once a week. We have been called by the assistant principal.

I have talked, begged, bribed. Each day she gets on the bus I eye my inbox with trepidation…

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