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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question… is anyone actually sending their kids to school on Friday, December 19th?
With the holidays basically here, I feel like attendance has to be super light. Curious what other families are doing — going in, taking the day off, or already in holiday mode?[/quote]

Even in ES I stressed to my kids that unless they are legitimately sick, they go to school. If school is open, they are there. That is the expectation in our family. Because we always expected this it just became part of our family culture. I never had any forward-thinking strategy other than that is just what we do.

Fast forward to my kid's first semester at college and he only missed one early 8 a.m. class (set his alarm clock wrong). He told me just recently that he has friends who skipped classes but said that "wasn't my thing". So far it has worked out well.

All this to say, with parenting you do not need a big proclamation of how things will be with your kids. It is every day, consistent examples that really sink in with them.[/quote]

There is another approach, especially as the kids get older, which is to let them manage it on their own. They will make the choice in college and the workplace to go or call out. If my HS kids say they don't want to go (just a party day, sub all week, done with the work), I call them in excused. When grades slip, maybe I'll take a different approach but it hasn't happened yet.[/quote]

Ditto. I don't believe in showing up for the sake of showing up. Both of my kids are straight A students in honors and AO classes. [/quote]

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