Forgot all about parents evening

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I completely forgot it was parents evening tonight.
It's DS' first year of high school and I had really wanted to speak to his teachers to see how things are going for him. I'd booked a couple of weeks ago. I'd set reminders in my new phone as, like many of us, I lead a busy life. The the reminders did not appear, the settings needed changing. No excuses, I just completely forgot. I only realised when DS asked how the meetings went. Too late, I'd missed them all.
I can't believe I forgot all about this! I didn't even get the feeling I had something important to do. Feeling like the worst parent right now.

It happens, and you probably won’t be the only one. Once I completely forgot parents evening and when the teacher came up to me in the playground to ask why I didn’t make it I pulled out my phone to check my diary and had in capital letters NAIL APPOINTMENT where I was supposed to be at parents evening 🤣

These things happen. We try to juggle everything and then stuff slips through. Not your fault, you tried.
Wonder if you can email the office and ask if it’s possible to get some feedback another way? Do they give out termly reports or anything like that?

Please forgive yourself, most surely this can happen to any single one of us parents
I've found if something happens beyond our control, some teachers can be immensely understanding & even offer to speak to you, at another time
Truly hope & I'm praying this will be so for you
Wishing You&Yours all the utmost very best 💚🙏

I’d get one of those family wall calendars for next year with a column for each family member. Plenty room for appointments, deadlines, parents’ evening etc.
Sometimes technology lets you down. You could also screenshot key dates from the school website and put that in your photos.
Don’t beat yourself up but you aren’t likely to be able to get the information another way. You could email the form teacher to apologise, just be honest.

We've all forgotten things before! Once I sent my little DS in to school and forgot to take out his lunch box from the day before (he was going to gave his favourite roast chicken the next day). But because he saw his lunch box he sat down with that instead and all he had were yesterday's crusts and a very sad looking banana whilst his friends tucked into their hot meal. I felt awful when I found out!
Email the school and ask for the teachers' email addresses so you can pop them a line.

It happened to me last week also. Don’t worry. I worked out last year that I’d been to nearly 300 parents evenings in my time and it’s ok that I missed one.

I did that with ds1 when he was 4.

The first I realised was when ds said he was starving at home time and asked me why he's only had 'end bits' of sandwiches and why his yoghurt was warm. Yep, I sent him with yesterdays leftovers 🙈😳

Thanks everyone, I'm glad I'm not alone in this!
Thankfully I don't have to remember lunches anymore, only to put money on DS' lunch card, and he's quick to remind me of that!
I've emailed the school to apologise and ask if there's any way to receive feedback from his teachers. I'm not holding out much hope though.
I had a long chat with DS this evening about his subjects which was really good for both of us actually, and gives me some insight into how things are going.