May Is The Busiest Month For Parents
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Hill Country Living
By Coulter Fussell
What lovely weather we’ve been having! May is the most pleasant of Southern months. The cool evenings and nights coupled with bright days heated enough for swimming make for conditions so dreamy that one almost forgets what’s coming our way in June, July and August.
While lovely weather-wise, May is also the busiest month if you are of the kid-having variety. I would put my money on the month of May up against all of December and the first week of August in a busy-off contest. I almost lost my ever-loving motherly mind dealing with making sure my kid got his final projects done in time and in the right order amidst and onslaught of awards banquets and sports practices…practices that apparently just continue on into eternity with no care as to the parameters of that sport’s traditional season dates.
Why can’t we have the awards ceremonies the week before finals? I’m not wanting to sit on gym bleachers for an hour and half on the very day I have to coach my kid through the repercussive mental ups and downs of waiting until the last minute to write a 12-page paper research about “Science.” The fact that half the gym is full of parents of teenage procrastinators should come into consideration when planning the end-of-the-year awards ceremonies. Don’t get me wrong! We shouldn’t consider moving the ceremonies and banquets for the kids’ sakes! They shouldn’t have procrastinated! We should consider moving the awards banquets to the week before finals for my sake…personally. Me.
On the other hand, my non-procrastinator kid never had to take a final. Sometime early last week, he started his summer in epic fashion by getting a buzz cut in front of his whole class and favorite teacher. He left school that day and hasn’t been back. That’s one way to mic drop out of 7th grade. The lesson here is “Make As, kids.”
Speaking of school, there was a book being offered as a reading option in the senior English class and it seems some of the content got a few folks in a little bit of tizzy. Don’t get tizzified about those things, y’all. It’s small potatoes and a conflict as old as time. Your kids are smart. They know what’s up already.
And compared to the public beheadings in “A Tale of Two Cities” or that psycho short story we read back in school called “The Most Dangerous Game” then I feel this book was maybe fairly mild. Do y’all remember what happened at the end of “A Cask of Amontillado”? Or “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”?! I was honestly relieved to hear that your kids weren’t having to read “The Yellow Wallpaper.” I still get the shivers when I think of senior English class. At least this book seemed to be less focused on slow death and twisted murder.
It’s never really a great idea to a take single sentence from a book out of context. If you do that to someone else’s book, then someone might do that to your favorite book. Who knows what they could find!
Thank you, once again, to all the teachers, coaches, staff and admins at Water Valley schools! The year is (basically) done! Margarita time for y’all!
