Parents evening.....

[Fordie57]

My youngest daughter is 12. There's a parents evening at her school tonight & for one reason or another ( I just am not in the right frame of mind ) I can't face it.
I have older children and have been heading to endless parents evenings for years, and I mean "years" my eldest started school in '96 and there's been no gap years at all. This is the very first one I have missed. My daughters getting upset thinking she's going to be in trouble & I feel so bad but just the thought of sitting around.....waiting and then hear every single teacher tell me the same thing ( it's always good 😊 so have never had any concerns) but am i being out of order? It's just one time??

Wow...my DD is Year 9 too and I have been doing parent related school things since 1993 (4 DC) and would still go. Your DD must feel so important to you, plus as a pp days, this is Options year.

Says not days.
Pretty poor parenting imo.

I was a third daughter and I grew up knowing quite clearly that I was less important than my sisters. I never had the swimming lessons, tennis lessons, or music lessons. I always had second hand clothes and school uniform. My Mother was involved in their schooling but was quite clearly bored third time round.

I am now in my fifties and it still hurts when I think about it. It also badly damaged my relationship with my sisters, which took many years to mend. So please go if only to demonstrate that your DD is important to you.

That’s really sad that you chose not to go.

As a younger child, I think my parents had got bored with education when it came to my turn. I can't remember them coming to a single parent evening after around the 2nd year of secondary. They never even noticed I stopped showing them my yearly school reports. Shame really, as they and my teachers may have taken my problems more seriously, such as physical abuse, bullying, etc., which turned me from a straight A student to failing all but one of my GCSEs. I got the impression that neither my teachers nor parents cared so I stopped caring about myself too!

How bizarre to post on the day, and then for your only other post to be after the fact.