Daddy, make a picture
I’m thinking about working on this design… honest
Now that we have a child in the public education system, it’s dawning on us that our days of traveling whenever the prices were cheapest are long behind us. In other words, in February on Presdients’ Day Week, we’re going to be crowding with everyone else at JFK who’s going to Florida to visit Grandma and Grandpa.
Fun fun.
Unless of course we decide to take the boy out of school for a week in March… what would he miss anyway? gluestick technique??
Speaking of education and the big brother, my boy is officially the smartest kid in Kindergarten or at least the only one who can read James and the Giant Peach cover to cover.
So starting next week he’ll be getting ‘individual’ instruction. In other words, not left to his own devices as they did to me in 19sixtywhatever when I showed up in first grade reading grown up novels.
So I can officially stop projecting my own fears of the educational-ocracy onto him.
The little sisters have also settled into now their second year of nursery school, at the Community Church right next door to big brother’s big boy school. The Church, despite the fact that we’re Jewish and I’m an atheist (Jewtheist?) is the logical choice since our wondersitter can pick all of them up and supposedly it’s the ‘best’ pre-school in town.
Whatever.
I’ve told the girls that when the teachers tell them to say grace before snack, they can tell the their teachers that their Daddy told them religion is a crutch and there is no god.
I’m getting notes sent home from all sides.
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But he won’t get the Perfect Attendance sticker!
said the dyslexic atheist, “there is no dog.”
see you mañana buddy
Joel’s going to a pre-school at a school run by a non-denominational “Bible church,” which around here (Kansas City) translates as “I’m too Baptist for my shirt.” (right said Fred Phelps? :P) While I’m not quite so religion-averse, I’d be tempted to try that with him, except for the avalanche of downstream consequences that would ensue. Still, a Christian lefty can dream.
Teach the girls the phrase “Creation Myth”. That always means fun and excitment during bible study.
You could always teach them about the Spaghetti Monster and his Noodly appendages.
I’m in the same boat - except that my oldest is now going to CCD class, and #2 is going to be joining her next year. I go to church w/ them on Sundays (twice this coming Sunday, as the youngest gets dunked this weekend) but that’s as far as I go.
My wife seems to think I have issues because I wasn’t brought up with an organized religion in my life. When will she learn - it’s not the lack of church, it’s the parents….