(Part of the Ebola Mom series)
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Tag Archives: parents
Upper East Side Standards
Before my first session with a new client…
Parent (to her kid): “I want you to listen to everything Miss Emily says, because she went to Penn, and if you listen to her, one day you can go to a school like that, too. Wouldn’t that be so great?”
Kid: (blank stare)
BECAUSE HE’S THREE.
Oh I See What You Did There
Parent of student: “Why isn’t her math improving more?!”
Me (aloud): “Progress takes time.”
Me (internally): “Little do you know, ‘Progress takes time’ is just my vague, polite, professional code for GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK, LADY– I see your kid one hour a week. If she doesn’t put in the effort between sessions, well…I’M NOT A GODDAMN WIZARD.”
Me: “Why aren’t I improving more?!”
Therapist: “Progress takes time.”
Ebola Mom, Part 76
Ebola Mom, Part 74
Dad Still Has a Blackberry
Valuable Practice
I actually love a good crying, meltdown tantrum during a tutoring session because it provides me with really valuable practice for the kind of mother I plan to be.
A really mean, unfair, impatient one.
Wild Weekend in Potomac
“South Korean.”
“South Korean.”
“South Korean.”
“American. Hawaiian I think. Last name Wei.”
“South Korean.”
— Dad, naming the ethnicity of every woman playing in this televised golf tournament.
Ebola Mom, Part 70
(Related to Ebola Mom Part 65 and Ebola Mom Part 66 , and part of the Ebola Mom series)
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