I feel seen

Good boy

Jeremy’s owner is so smart!

Welcome to the club kiddo!

It's a fair question. I wouldn't have minded being late.

Our school (one complex for primary through high school) converted the only PE ground into a parking lot for the staff vehicles. Luckily I was nearly finished with school then. Feel sorry for the younger kids who had no choice but to resort to running around the hallways during breaks.

look kids, it's a fun-shaped SQUARE SANDWICH!!!!

Bodes well...

Absolutely adorable 😍

When the Wiggles say "open up this pit" YOU OPEN UP THAT PIT!

why would you have such high expectations lol i'm going into yr 11 and i've given up on teenage boys' hygiene

Son is going to be a real man.

Usually crazy hair day etc are specifically for certain charities, in Australia anyway. You pay a gold coin ($1 or $2) for the chance to wear the things related to the charity (like Jeans for Genes day) and then it gets donated to them. The 100 days of school is something that has just started infiltrating here and I find it a bit weird personally.

Yeah, that's one dedicated mom.

Checks out that was me

Can’t be misheard. It’s probably spelled Myruh.

That would be kids drive yourself to school day.

"Don't worry, I won't stab anyone with a fork at lunch" energy

I'm colour blind. It's 8:24 somewhere. I have no mortgage.

That was august 27, 2023 and he is still awake.

I think the long summer break was originally because kids were needed to help out on the farm.

Yep, checks out.

My mum only took photos on the significant first days. First day of primary school and the first day of school the year we were all there (my youngest siblings starting prep, my middle brother starting year 7 and I was starting year 9). Never had social media then anyway and mum wouldn't have had time to use it if we did.

Amen!

😄

Socialization makes the memories, not the learning.(In my opinion)

Celebrate together!

As i remember it these requests (especially for the home cooking requirements) arrived around twelve hours before they needed to be delivered.

Even with the smallest package, we always had at least two wallet sized photos we didn't need. The prices have shot up ridiculously since I was in school too.

I thought that was just my crazy aŕṣė. I feel surprise relief

I was a weird teenager who loved picking my little sister up from school, getting her to do her homework as soon as she got home, and signing any permission forms etc. Mum has the same initials as me so I didn't even forge her signature, I just signed my own one.

Flarhal!

Nobody who’s always late is worth the wait

This is what I fear the most when school starts again here, lol She's a great kid, but not a morning person at all, and combined with teenage hormones she can be a bit over-sensitive.

Pretty sure my parents are glad that email and other modern media communications were not used when my siblings and I were in school. All they had to communicate with the parents were printed notices that the student was supposed to show the parent and get signed as proof. They had to give out such notices in advance cause there were always some students who kept forgetting about it, students who misplaced the paper, and at least one who made a paper plane and flew it.

I was very surprised when I started at the school I work at how early kids started getting picked up. I understand from the parent's perspective, because they don't have much of a carpark and so most have to use the pick up line. As a teacher though, the last hour or more (equivalent to 1 and a half lessons) seems like a waste as students leave. When I was in school, more parents parked early and met their kids at the classroom when the bell went, or walked to pick them up/let them walk home.

I literally sent this message last week. "Last minute school shopping and just overheard a mom and dad arguing because the mom refuses to buy cra-z-art crayons. Dad said fine what about Rosa art and the mom just said "I don't even know you" and walked away. 😂😂"

Haha this was me! I would wait for a “great day” to wear them first and when I finally decide to wear them, it will be the day when someone decides to step on me or I accidentally step in puddle of chocolate milk someone spilled…

Me neither kid, me neither. At least not today 😁

One boy I used to nanny went from refusing to get dressed before school to getting dressed the night before (with pjs over them) or when he woke up at 4am!

“and I don’t remember the title or anything about it but the book was red”

I've mostly been on the teacher's side of it, and it surprises you sometimes which kids have separation anxiety. Actually, I did have to take one of the kids who I babysat for years, is basically like my cousin, to her first day of school. She was such a confident kid normally, we thought it would be easy, but when she realised I was going she had a meltdown. I think it took almost half an hour for me to be able to calm her down.

I used to come home from work and say the same thing.

I wish I had taken after school pics for this reason! Missed opportunities!

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Mi kids were amazing until they went to school. There people turn into the upsidedown version of themselves and learn to lie

My mum always bought the supplies for the following year when they were cheap at the end of the back to school sales. Often got notebooks for 4c etc. Of course that means having to store them until then and she overbought obviously because she still has some blank ones in her house now, 7 years after my youngest sibling finished school!

Now its 2 apps, text, email, ph calls, several fb pgs to keep up with it. Plus the form communications sent home in folders.

Not forever. They go to college, move out. This idea that parenting is such a drudge really irks me. I always loved being a mom, and now that my daughter is an adult, it’s even better