(Related to Ebola Mom Part 65 and Ebola Mom Part 66 , and part of the Ebola Mom series)
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Nothing.
Client, Age 3 (Yes. Three.), during a “greater than/less than” math lesson….
Kid: “You’re 35?!?! My mom is 31, and that is LESS THAN 35!”
Me: “Right!”
Kid: “But she has THREE kids and you have ZERO kids and zero is LESS THAN three! Zero is NOTHING!”
Me: “Well…”
Kid: “You have NOTHING!”
Ebola Mom, Part 69
My Job is Just Like Yours
Here’s part of a professional client email I sent this morning.
Kid is in 1st grade.
**Posted with permission from his mother, who reads the blog and thankfully still trusts me with her kid.
Even My Clients Know
A 1st grader I tutor lives in my building and has met Eric a couple times….
No Offense
Excerpt from an email I received from a former student:
My drafted response:
Ebola Mom, Part 67
(Part of the Ebola Mom series )
My favorite part of this is that she doesn’t know how to space the exclamation points because I’m pretty sure she’s never used one.
Sorry, Kid
Ran into a former student and his mom on the street.
Mom: “How’s the tutoring business going?”
Me: “Great! But, you know (smiling at the kid)— I really miss the classroom!”
Mom: “Oh please. No you don’t.”
Me (laughing): “Really, I do!”
Mom: “You do NOT!”
Me: “I do!”
Mom (pointing at kid): “You don’t have to pretend for him. It’s fine.”
Me: “Ok yeah I really don’t.”
Ebola Mom, Part 65
(Part of the Ebola Mom series)
No. I will be drunk.
And yes, thank you, I am quite excited for my shower, and you are so sweet to acknowledge that that will be a special event in my life!! I appreciate your understanding that you are in no way a priority for me on that day! 
I Love Kids
“You’ve had that same pimple since our last session.”
— 1st grader
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