{"id":90,"date":"2005-10-07T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2005-10-07T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T19:12:31","slug":"positive-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Positive Reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to get some positive comments, especially when it comes to being a parent.  <\/p>\n<p>So, when I went to Parent\/Teacher Conference last night, I wasn&#8217;t expecting all that much, just dreading finding out the latest things my kids have neglected to turn in, or what the next big project due next week is.  I was delighted to hear praise and good things from all the kids&#8217; teachers.  Apparantly they save all their sassyness and negative attitudes for mom and her need to hear them practice the piano daily.  So, I don&#8217;t mean to brag, but&#8230;I must (so if you don&#8217;t want to hear me bragging about my kids, just stop reading right now.  Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Cole scored 100% on the Math section of the state curriculum testing done last spring.  His other subjects were also quite high, all level 4, which is the highest profficiancy rating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Megan is everyone&#8217;s favorite student, and &#8220;a joy&#8221; to have in class.  She&#8217;s also quite gifted in art (the art comment didn&#8217;t suprise me, but I must say I&#8217;m a little suprised that her teachers love her so much).  She also tells her teachers everything I do, apparantly, and her Social Studies teacher said to me, &#8220;Oh, I hear all about you&#8211;playing bells with the tabernacle choir, doing an amazing shopping race&#8211;you must be lots of fun!&#8221;  That was nice to hear that Megan speaks well of me, especially since we had had a little run in just that morning that ended with Mom reminding her that we are her family and I expect her to <em>&#8220;be nice!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Natalie&#8217;s teacher said she has NEVER had a child who reads so well in the first grade, and that she reads on a 7.5 grade level.  That comment really blew me away.  I mean I know she reads well, but seventh grade?  Wow.<\/p>\n<p>So, like I was saying, it&#8217;s good every once in a while to have some outside feedback on how your kids are doing.  I came home with a renewed appreciation for my smart, well behaved kids, and I will try to remember that next time they leave their dishes on the counter and their shoes and backpacks in the middle of the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to get some positive comments, especially when it comes to being a parent. So, when I went to Parent\/Teacher Conference last night, I wasn&#8217;t expecting all that much, just dreading finding out the latest things my kids have neglected to turn in, or what the next big project due next week is. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}