Now that my kids are all older and don’t need me to walk them to their class and my work is very hectic, I don’t get time to interact with other parents.
And that morning, I was catching up with other parents while waiting for the kids to arrive.
And while talking, one parent mentioned that she tried to reach me to invite my son for indoor soccer game and training she was organising. I am paranoid about giving my phone numbers to anyone ! I am deaf ( partially) and prefer to lip read and find conversations over the phone a bit intimidating..Surprisingly I can talk for hours with people I have known for very long time!
I am weird, I know.
Very few people have my mobile number and no one has my house number ( It is unlisted ). Since she couldn’t get hold of me, she called a friend who stays close by and asked if she could pass on the message to me. Apparently my friend told ” Oh Sarah doesn’t let her son play any sports, she always makes him sit at home and study”
To this day, there hasn’t been a single day my son sat down and studied. He reads a lot.. all story books, I also subscribed “how it works“ magazine for him and he reads that as well because like me he is fascinated with science and facts. But he has never sat down and studied. He gets straight A, he is the maths champion etc because he is intelligent. It is something he is born with..along with his OCD ( obsessive compulsive disorder)..
And that is what bothers me most..The total inability by parents to accept that a child can be intelligent on their own..and the need for them to find reasons for a child’s success..and the need to find a fault. and anxiously waiting to see the child faltering..because in the grand scheme of things it is my child versus their child and all that matters is to see how to defeat a bright child in all possible ways..because it just isn’t fair to see him succeed..