Raising kids, not expectations
Today was the usual ritual of PTM – Parent Teacher Meeting or Pain in Throat and Mouth after giving thousand clarifications and explanations to the kid’s teacher for his acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Not only that, there we had that customary - setting the kid right on the path to improvement and evaluation. I was delighted and numb too. This time teachers were praising his improvement, except a few points. I remember in the last semester I was called after school hours to review his performance and it was diving into bottom. He got three out of 20 in mathematics and showed similar results in social studies. What teachers were more aghast were his lies and huge mountains of lies! Parents either defending their kid or gather up all the history of the kid in front of the teacher to prove that their kid is born like that and they are helpless in reforming the kid. Now, it’s teacher’s duty to do so. When a child is spending most of his time...