Maybe I Will Survive Middle School
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank
My 11 year old son has only been in middle school for a little over a month and has already learned about sex education, dealt with a bully, received his first phone call from a girl, gone to his first dance and now….accelerated math.
Hubby and I have no idea where his math aptitude comes from. We’re both secretly considering DNA testing. I’m pretty sure he’s mine though, because he is both organizationally and directionally challenged just like me. He resembles hubby in the looks department so we’re pretty sure he’s his too. This math thing has us both amazed and proud.
Yesterday his math homework involved finding the least common multiplier amongst groups of 4 numbers. He asked me for help! When I first read the instructions, I swear they said this; “@#$%&!”. After some clarification from my 11 year old, it came back to me. For the most part. We struggled a bit but got through it. This is only 7th grade level math people. I’m so screwed.
There is hope.
In addition to the excessively difficult homework, we also received this lovely card from his math teacher that I will keep forever:
I Appreciate Your Efforts At Home
Your son was rewarded with a sticker today because he showed great character and honesty today in math class. We were doing a very difficult problem and the class was stumped on the answer. One young man worked really hard to get the answer and shared it with your son and his math partner. Instead of just taking the answer without doing the work, your son and his partner erased the answer. I was very proud of both boys because they showed good character.
It doesn’t get much better than this. She’s proud?! I couldn’t be more so. 
Thanks for stopping by!
Oh my God! That is the coolest!
I know, he’s so awesome!
Wow! That is something to be proud of!! Girls? Already? Oh I am not looking forward to this….and I have a girl! Ack!
Believe me, I wasn’t ready for it either!
Parenting SCORE!!! That is absolutely awesome!!!
Thanks Jess!
how wonderful! frame it! make sure you date it so twenty years from now you’ll know exactly the date (actually — what am i saying? aren’t you a scrapbooker??).
kudos to your son (and to his parents for raising such a great kid!)!
Thanks Lynette! Well….I am a slacker scrapbooker. Maybe this is what I needed to get me back into it.
This is BIG! This is the stuff that brings me joy tears as a mom.
He’s an outstanding fella. I’m proud of him too!
Thanks!
How great for your son! And, school work. I’m ‘repeating’ first and second grade this year with my 6 and 7 year old.
It’s tough because I can’t ‘MAKE’ them learn.. Sigh…. But, worth being a Mom!
Great blog!
Thank you – yours too!
Good for him!
As silly as it is, that is honestly one of the things I worry most about when I think of becoming a parent – “how the hell am I going to help them w/ their math/science homework!????”
It’s not silly at all. The look on his face when he had to explain least common multipliers to me was priceless. Then he asked if we should just call my sister!
Honesty is the best! Happy to hear about your lil son. Got to give you too a real proud pat Cyndi.
Aww..thank you!
Aww! That’s so awesome! These are the moments that make us mamas proud.