Conferences

Tonight was our school conferences for Carly and Zoey.

We had Zoey's first. Having received multiple notes home this year about Zoey's behavior in school, we were sure that it wasn't going to be a pleasent conference.

Everything went good! She is above and beyond and a real leader in her class. Her teacher has noticed that she acts out when she gets bored. So, Zoey has been working on some 1st grade material and now seems to be on track.

Then the bad news came.

She has a boyfriend (E)!

And her teacher has had to talk to her and E about exchanging love notes, holding hads, and rubbing backs.

Really!!!

I thought we would come to this in 3rd, 4th, 5th grade, not kindergarten!

I've known about E for a while. Zoey's little group of friends seem to fight over him. I guess I didn't realize it was to this degree. Good thing I know E's mom through Carly's karate and had a chance to talk to her tonight about Zoey and E. She informed me that E has come home a couple times crying because Zoey had broken up with him. But he would always let his mom know when he got "his Zoey" back.

Wow....

So, Paul and I had a talk with Zoey tonight at the kitchen table about being friends and not "boyfriend/girlfriend."

Carly's conference went better. She has improved greatly with her reading but still struggles with math. Her confidence has improved and she is a total people pleaser! She is making friends and there are a few boys that are crushing on her, at least she doesn't care or act on it! It is amazing the progress she has made since the beginning of the school year.