Remember this face??
He was just enrolled in First Grade!
From experience, I know what happens in first grade. The teachers, they don't advertise it, but this is what happens. At some point during first grade, they do some major changing and one morning your student will wake up, and you will see that he or she is not a baby anymore. They are big kids, reading books, adding numbers, subtracting numbers, talking about mammals and what makes a mammal be mammal, talking about equality, entrepreneurship and how Columbus sailed the ocean blue. They start to smell funny, grow much taller, can't kiss their mothers in public, chase girls (although they don't really know why yet), start loosing their teeth and tell really terrible and not funny jokes. They start to become dependable in larger tasks, follow several step directions and come to logical conclusions on their own. Folks, independence really takes off here, and your babies, they aren't babies anymore! So kiss those baby cheeks while they are there, because sometime during first grade, they grow up too.
**Stay tuned for the next school related post, which will give you great advice in what kinds of teacher gifts to be looking for, and no, none of them involve apple printed anything.**
