Poor Gen

She had a project due yesterday so of course I learned about it the night before.

I told her first to tough it out,
you should have let me see the assignment.

She countered with
I didn't like the book
it's boring.

So she cried and cried
and I talked morals to her.

I wrote a small letter on her planner asking her teacher for one more day. I also looked through her planner and there is NO mention of this project at ALL. I warned Gen that her teacher might not give her one more day and that is okay. That's life.

But I told her it would be over. The world will not end because of this project. Tomorrow will be difficult, but you will get through it. Before she went to bed, she looked nervous and I asked if she felt nervous in her stomach and she said yes. I said that's normal and that's how it feels when you aren't prepared. Hug hug kiss kiss.

So the nice teacher called me the next day and we talked about what to do. She pointed out thatpart of her philosophy is about the kids having fun doing their projects and learning. We seemed to be in agreement that Gen would finish the project and still go up in front of the class.

So we worked on it that night with popcicle sticks and some crafts I had left over from Christmas. We made some trees and I grabbed stones from the driveway to create a rustic forest scene. Her book was about a girl living inthe 1600s. So we needed to show this without the bright blue ribbons and paints she wanted to use. Gen started crying when she got overwhelmed again with the project but I told her to stop. She cried enough last night, now is the time to suck it up and keep working on the project. (Woah, where did this tough love come from?!) Yes it's hard and it's not fun, but it has to get done. To my surprise she stopped and kept working on it.

I needed to glue-gun stuff and I almost squirted it on the floor. But I saved the carpet with my bare hands. I got some mild burns in between my fingers and finger tips. Gen was laughing and laughing. It really wasn't funny, but I let it go. After that she finished the project gluing on the stones and the trees and cleaned up.