NOT!

Found out today that I'm busy on Thursday. For eight hours. With a survey and a pre-work assignment to complete.

No, I haven't gone back to school. I'm merely trying to be a classroom mom for my daughter's class. Keep in mind I've gone through a criminal record check and filled out a lengthy questionaire to become one. There was a 4 hour seminar on 'Classroom Sensitivity' back in mid November and now we're scheduled to spend 8 hours on 'Political Correctness in the Classroom'.

Political Correctness? Guess this is where they try to teach me its wrong to wish the other parents and kids Merry Christmas at this time of year. Well good luck, I say! I've spent over 30 years of my life celebrating Christmas and I'm not about to change what I say.

I got one of those joke emails you find in your Inbox all the time and usually just delete. But this one caught my eye - it was about all the things we did when we were kids that just aren't right in this day and age. I have to admit there are things I don't let my kids do like ride their bikes with helmets, or ride in the car without seatbelts on. But I can't ban them from doing everything for fear they might get hurt. Sometimes they just need to learn those lessons on their own. Within reason of course.

Same thing goes if they want to say Merry Christmas to a classmate. Or if they want to refer to the guy who delivers the mail as a mailMAN (he is after all LOL).

Sigh....why do I have the feeling Thursday is going to be a very long day? And why do I get the feeling I'm gonna be the one who doesn't wind up teacher's pet?