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[quote=Anonymous]Usually each parent teacher conference that I have attended starts out with the teacher talking about how busy she/he is, especially if the conference is taking place in the evening. Note, it is best to just agree with them about how "busy" they are. Note, don't point out the obvious, that you fully understand about being busy, since most parents (regardless of whether SAH or not) have an even more complicated and heavy year-round schedule than most teachers (unless the teacher also has school-aged kids) and that most parents are not only working full-time in the home or outside the home AND parenting AND volunteering for the community. If you indicate that you are also busy, and probably even more busy than a typical teacher, the conversation somehow goes downhill from there....so just keep to the code of acting like teachers are the busiest of all creatures.[/quote]
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