Parent Teacher Conferences

Today we had the parent-teacher conferences for the kids. ISB does a nice job of grouping them all together, as we had them all back-to-back-to-back.

The kids are all very different, but there was one common theme. They all liked to talk, and they don't necessarily let the fact that class is going on inhibit their self-expression. Translation, they talk a lot, and sometimes when they shouldn't. Nalin apparently brings it out of the kids around her. Her teach said she puts her in a table with the three quietest kids in the class, and the table is the loudest. Its not just Nalin talking, she draws it out of the others as well.

Jacob is very bright, but like me at his age, needs to learn when its appropriate to talk. He does well in everything but writing, which he loaths. Getting him to do his writing homework is a please. If by pleasure you think of a drill bit to the noggin.

Aleena is doing very well socially in school. When she acts up, however, she tries to pull the cute card. Her teacher said that she tried to cut line one day, and she looked at the teacher and said, "but I'm little". I guess that works here where we cut her additional slack because she is the "baby". At school, perhaps not as much.