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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At that age my daughter wrote an essay that said I read the Bible to them every night and that we all ate dinner together every evening.

Okay - so I am an atheist, I don't even have a Bible in the house, and we only eat dinner together on weekends.  I think she was making up something to impress her teacher who apparently was a Bible thumper (something that I just rolled my eyes over at the time).

Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you read.
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Kinda similar.  When my kids were in third grade, parents were invited to a "Literary Celebration" where all the kids had their masterpieces on display - "write an essay about something that made a very strong impression on you" - and parents were to circulate around the room, read the kids' work and leave comments on a comment sheet.  Sally wrote about learning to ski, John got to drive his grandfather's tractor, Sam went to Guatemala to bring home his new brother, etc etc.

I get to DS1's desk: "Home Alone".  "One day my mom left me home alone, and I was so scared.  I didn't know what to do.  All of the doors were locked.  So I sat and I waited.  And waited.  And waited.  And she didn't come, and didn't come, and didn't come.  And then she still didn't come."  Parent comments were along the lines of "That's terrible!"  "You were very brave!" etc.  Awesome.

Note that I had asked DS1 if he wanted to go the store with me and DS2, he said no, I told H that we were leaving and that DS1 was staying, he said fine... and then H went to Starbucks.

I go into DS2's classroom looking for redemption and I see "The Best Car and the Worst Day Ever" -- all about the time "My mom crashed the best car ever.  It was probably the only car I'll ever really, really like and now it's gone because she she crashed it, and I miss it."

Seriously?  The car was a 10 year old Passat, and I was t-boned by a pickup truck whose (drunk) driver ran a red light.

They couldn't have written about going to France, the beach, hiking, learning to sail, getting an ice cream cone, etc.?   Nope. [/quote]

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