We're still growing up

| Libellés : Anarchie Blog, info sport | Posted on samedi 2 mai 2015

HuffPost Parents

Here's one can't-miss HuffPost Parents article to soothe your frazzled parent brain at the end of the day. Happy reading, and we'll see you tomorrow.

We're Both Still Growing Up

By Jeff Bogle

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There are eight traffic lights separating the short driveway in front of our home and our grade school's two separate parent drop-off zones. Pushing back from the gate by 7:46 a.m. affords us the time to justmiss a few of them.

We must be reversing out of the driveway by 7:46 each morning, with lunches, water bottles, backpacks, flutes, and books to read in tow, to make sure I'm not walking out of school 28 minutes later with a pink tardy slip. Leaving at any point after 7:46 a.m. -- say, for example, 7:49 a.m., or 7:52 a.m., or even 7:47 a.m. -- and a justmissed traffic light unmercifully flipping from green to yellow to red might result in the fifth grader being late for school, a tardiness stain on her record, and this parent having to walk her in, hand her over, and walk back to the car alone with a pink slip of shame.

But it was that one traffic light! That one guy driving in front of me who apparently had no place to get to! Those geese crossing the street!

No excuses, dad. 7:46 a.m. or earlier, or else.

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