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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sweetheart, elementary school has this stuff too. And your child WILL be sad if mom and dad choose their high powered very important jobs over coming to donuts with dads or muffins with moms or the kindergarten thanksgiving feast or whatever. Trust me, they WILL be sad if they're one of three kids whose parents couldn't come.[/quote]

In my experience as a teacher in the classroom, and also as a parent who couldn't make it to a lot of these things because I'm a teacher so my days off are chosen for me, I don't think that's totally true.

If you form relationships with other parents and ask one of them to check on your kid, and prep your kid in advance, kids can be resilient and handle not having a parent there, and it can really be fine.  If you really don't have another parent in the class, or another relative you can ask, then you can also ask the teacher's help. Or, for events that happen outside the school day, you may just have to have your kid skip them.  Something like Donuts for Dad, that often occurs before school starts, isn't some place you can send a kid without a parent.

But just not showing up, without prepping your kid at all, is going to make them cry. [/quote]

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