'The odd-numbered years are the ones that are full of new information.'
and I were not prepared for the giant leap into academics this next level would bring. And it was hard . . . for both of us. I remember looking at one of her papers just a few weeks in where she'd been marked down for using all capital letters."When did this become a thing?" I thought."Isn't it enough that she's writing?" I felt like I hadn't gotten the memo regarding these new expectations, and like my daughter hadn't either.
"The odd-numbered years are always the hardest," a teacher friend said to me one day as I lamented about the ice-cold shower first grade had become."Kids are usually learning new information that then becomes review in the even numbered years.The concept of odd-numbered years being harder than even-numbered ones wasn't anything I'd ever heard of before. And looking back on my own schooling years, I wasn't entirely sure I totally agreed.
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