On the minuscule chance that the second grader about whom I am talking is your daughter, please believe me, I am trying to figure out why a little girl as energetic and curious and verbose as your daughter could possibly fail second grade.

What does it take to fail second grade?

Memory fades but I want to believe that by second grade you can sound out words the meanings of which you haven’t a clue.

Historiography.

One day, you will look it up.

I remember Kat was the only one to have the phonics teacher in 1st grade. That did not go well. She was an older woman. I was energetic.

Come to think of it, there were several elementary altercations.

How do you fail 2nd grade?

I don’t want to go all hippy dippy City Mouse on you, but she wants to believe she can draw.

Back to the the 2nd Grade. After I re-wired my neural nets after she said she hated to read, and I was a little bit bit mean– she had it coming and so did her dad– I offered several other kid-tested dog-approved stuff. Chalk. … … … …

Construction paper and colored pencils.

I am getting in the swing of this little kid thing.

Little girls want to draw.

Little boys like to drag their little car things across my furniture and have to be told not to.

He took it better than she did.

When she said she hated to read, I gestered toward the front door and remarked that folks who didn’t like to read were not welcome.

That was probably a bit harsh. Since she hates to read, she’s never come across folks like us.

And then she asked her Daddy if she could go wait in the truck and I felt like doodoo.

I think it ended well. I paid more attention to those two kids for 90 minutes than I paid to four dogs for over 24 hours.

By the way– Daughter C & J-Man. I am not going to be buying Bebe anymore comic books. They just ex-/in- cite her. To violence.

And Matt left his jacket.

And cats live &/or die.

And what impact does failing second grade have on your life, as you reflect upon it, and as others comments on it, post facto.?