Big Boy School 2 of a 9 part series
Time for you to learn to read and write. A day chock full of science and social studies. I was anxious because at home, you clearly had some sort of internal motor that nobody could see with the naked eye – if I could have seen it, I FOR SURE would have hit the off switch. Perhaps if I found that off switch, we would not own so many wooden dowels and you would still be playing with your toys that were in the big black garbage bag. However, you successfully made it through preschool and kindergarten, so I was hopeful that the rest of your school years would be a breeze. In first grade I became increasingly worried about your motor without the off switch. I worried about the fact that your handwriting was atrocious, you were writing letters backwards, there was no spacing between your words, random spaces within a word, and it was like the lines on the paper were invisible to you. Your school held a meeting where I had no idea what I was doing, but I knew my concerns were valid. Th...