{"id":4246,"date":"2017-01-04T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2017-01-03T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T01:46:53","slug":"new-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2017\/01\/new-old\/","title":{"rendered":"New Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the current model of parenting, schools rely heavily on parents handling the homework. I do not remember my parents helping me this much. Maybe my older brothers did. But my daughter’s schoolwork is almost impossible to complete without parental help.<\/span><\/p>\n

And second grade has a lot of homework. Even Christmas vacation has special homework: a family history project. She is supposed to write out 3 pages, using primary and secondary sources of information about her family. One page must be a map.<\/span><\/p>\n

The standards are pretty high for a second grader. Primary and secondary sources? really? yet again parental intervention is required.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this is a special problem for me. I can’t do it for her…I have to coach her into creating the project that will meet the requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I ask, what is the most interesting thing about your family?<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think the most interesting thing about my family is that I have four uncles.”<\/span><\/p>\n

She answers in complete sentences. Just like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uncles. So I check with the teachers if uncles are okay, yes they are.<\/span><\/p>\n

So now I set up the video calls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Veronica and I actually worked out a few questions that would follow the spec. She will ask them about what it was like for them in second grade.<\/span><\/p>\n

When she talked with my oldest brother, she asked what she had asked the rest, “What school did you go to for second grade?”<\/span><\/p>\n

He didn’t quite remember. He and I reviewed our remembered family history and named three schools before finally remembering the right one.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then it came up that he’d skipped 3rd grade.<\/span><\/p>\n

I never knew that.<\/span><\/p>\n

I told him I’d skipped 8th grade.<\/span><\/p>\n

He never knew that.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s a theme song for new years- Auld Lang Syne. It says: “Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind…”<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, maybe there’s a lot of old acquaintance we never knew to even forget. And also, maybe there are new things that our old acquaintances have matured into.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s new stuff happening even in the old stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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