DS in Year 5. Booked parents evening slot - very happy with the timing (it's usually a scrum). Wrote it on the family calendar. Forgot to check it. Forgot to turn up.
My work has gone bonkers and outside of that there is so much going on each day - ferrying the DC to so many things - this slipped through the net. Shit shit shit.
DS properly disappointed - "..but mummy we all wrote a letter to our mums and dads to talk about what we enjoyed so far this year and we put post-it notes on our work. My teacher made me put my books out in a nice pile and put my name on them..."
I apologised and talked about how I knew how much progress he was making and who his friends were etc and that at this point there wasn't much the teacher could tell me that I didn't already know, but that next term's would be more important and of course I would make sure it wouldn't happen again, but I feel absolutely awful.
I've emailed the teacher to apologise.
I mean. This ranks as a full-on parenting low doesn't it. It does, doesn't it.
DS is going to go through adulthood telling people about "that time my mum forgot to turn up to my parents evening but turned up to all my brothers' ones..."