Parents'+Corner

= ﻿Parent's Corner  =


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 * ==Dear Parents,==

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==I am really excited to be working with your children. Their success and development is truly important to me. Helping them grow as writers and learninng from them gets me up every morning, happy to be going to "work."==

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==I would love to get to know all of you and am here to be a reference and a resource to you for your children's educations. I believe that a strong parent and teacher relationship gives students the support system they need to succeed, so I am here to answer any questions you may have.==

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Have faith in your children -- they have so much potential. With a little support and guidance, they will do some amazing things. They will surprise you. They surprise me every day.
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 * ==  h My parents were, and still are, my support system . In high school, whenever I would get overwhelmed or discouraged, they kept everything in perspective for me. I once read a book on the writing process where the author describes a scene similar to one we have all been in, a scene with a distraught boy overwhelmed by an assignment. I always think of this passage when I think of how my parents have helped me. You can do the same for your children -- they need you: f "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'" h - Anne Lamott, //Bird by Bird// //l// //l//   == || == h ==

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