{"id":4327,"date":"2015-10-08T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2015-10-08T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:16:55","slug":"academic-decathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4327","title":{"rendered":"Academic Decathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sissy was recently invited to be on the Academic Decathlon team at her school. She\u2019s pretty thrilled at the ask because, for the past several years, the team has placed first in regionals which then allows them to move on to the national competition in California. Actually, I\u2019m a little vague on the \u201cplacing\u201d details. I know they do really well and they went to Disneyland last year. But pay that no never mind. Sissy remains thrilled.\u00a0 As are we, because that girlie is amazeballs.\u00a0 But what really\u00a0needs to be said here is: I am ROCKING my cosmic do-over!<\/em><\/p>\n

This Friday will be the parent meeting wherein we will be reminded of how wonderful\u00a0our respective mini-mes are. Also, we will be offered the opportunity to sign up to bring breakfast for one of the early morning study sessions. Parents\u00a0are the cogs of this whole effort. Nothing wrong with being COGS. Cog, cog, cog. Does that word sound weird if you say it too many times? Cog. Cog. Yeah, weird, right?<\/em><\/p>\n

Because \u2013 speaking of cogs cog, cog<\/em> \u2013 while school administration and teachers are somewhat involved, a good portion of the breakfasts, effort and success\u00a0of this thing rests on parents\u2019 shoulders. Case in point,\u00a0during this same Friday meeting, I believe the parents will be asked to commit to \u201csmall group instruction\u201d in one of ten academic areas. I know, my heart just\u00a0seized up at that.\u00a0\u00a0Despite how well I’m\u00a0doing with my\u00a0cosmic do-over, you know I\u00a0is\u00a0afeared of certain\u2026subjects. <\/em><\/p>\n

Also?\u00a0 Cog, cog. Cog. So weird.<\/em><\/p>\n

But don\u2019t worry about me! I plan to come fully prepared to the meeting and will offer to spearhead the group studying marketing or human resources since I have significant professional experience in each area and can speak from a real-world\u00a0point of view.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s a no-go, I will offer to teach crochet.<\/p>\n

If the crochet idea\u00a0flops, I will demonstrate my best shot-put form. Come ON! It\u2019s a decathlon. Everyone knows success rests on the shot-put.<\/em><\/p>\n

Epic fail on all of the above? I will break down in tears and beg them not to put me in math class with these kids.<\/p>\n

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Sissy was recently invited to be on the Academic Decathlon team at her school. She\u2019s pretty thrilled at the ask because, for the past several years, the team has placed first in regionals which then allows them to move on to the national competition in California. Actually, I\u2019m a little vague on the \u201cplacing\u201d details. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}