Education | Lessons from my daughter

I told you on March 6th that Emily and I are joining the A to Z Challenge in April.

Some bloggers will pick a theme for this challenge, me, I needed to find a way to respect “Lessons from my Daughter”while doing this challenge! I can’t really see myself picking a random theme as my theme is Emily and our life. I blog about us, I blog about Emily and I tell you about her challenges and success, I do my best to raise awareness for Cri du Chat Syndrome while keeping you engaged and hopefully entertained!

Before signing-up, I talked to Emily about this!

We’ve had meetings earlier this year to talk about her future, to discuss what Emily wants to do, to try and figure out what will come after high school!

We made a plan

A big plan!

In there, somewhere, it says that Emily wants to start her own blog.

To help her, we enrolled her in some more tutoring class. We are certainly paying a University degree in tutoring but as long as my girl is learning, we will figure out a way to pay for this. They know her and are working extremely well with her.

So, this A to Z challenge, this will be my chance to introduce you to Emily’s writing!

So far, we’ve picked 25 words, not necessarily the words I wanted but I am allowing Emily to be the driving force.

Emily doesn’t like my suggestions for letter “Q” so I will need to get my dictionary out and find new options.

Emily also doesn’t want to write about hospital, therapies, surgeries and so on. She made that really clear by crossing off some of my words!

I bought Emily a new notebook and today we dedicated a page per letter. Look at her, she worked hard on this. I will try to dedicate some time weekly for us to work on these posts so they are ready to go out daily comes April 1st.

Stay tuned!

Thanks to Niki at The richness of a simple life for introducing us to this challenge.

Emily and I are #1022 of 1102 entries so far!

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It is time for me to tell you again….

This is a crowd favorite when I need to tell a story where I make a fool of myself.

I hope you enjoy it!

Summer 2003, Emily just turned 5

There isn’t much to do where we live now so we decided to go to the aquarium. It’s a small aquarium with a touch pool and 2 seals. I’m sure they had other things but those are the 2 exhibits I remember.

If you’ve ever taken French class you know that seals in French is “phoque” which sounds exactly like Fuck.

French, my mother tongue.

Up until a couple of months prior to this visit, Emily’s universe was French. She was the only person I could speak French to in our new world. So that day, I was speaking French to my daughter.

Like all the kids at the aquarium, Emily got excited when she saw the seals. I felt it was the perfect opportunity to make her practice the “f” sound which she doesn’t have in her repertory as of yet.

Because I am an “amazing” mom, I get on my knees to be at my daughter’s height and tell her (in French) that those 2 mammals are “phoque”

Emily: “Poque”

Me: non Emily “Phoque”…. “fffffff” phoque!

Emily: Poque

Me: Mais non Emily, regarde ma bouche….. fffffff phoque (no Emily, look at my mouth…. fffffff phoque)

And we went on like that for a couple of minutes.

Suddenly this older lady standing next to me says out loud that she prefers to wait before teaching her kids that word…”

………

That’s when I realized that Emily and I were alone around the Seals exhibit.

Parents were moving their kids away from us while covering their ears.

As I looked around, I finally saw my dear husband in a little alcove laughing is ass off.

I was slightly embarrassed!

Come on, the guy could have told me.

Have you ever made a fool of yourself?

Find more about about Cri du Chat syndrome at 5p- Society

Emily has a her own page in the family stories , you can find it here: Emily

If you want short updates and timely pictures of the little things that are happening in our life, please like and follow Lessons from my daughter‘s page on Facebook.

You can also find me on Twitter at @plebrass

I am on Pinterest too… one day I will figure out what to do there other than finding cool recipes but meanwhile, you can find me here: Lessons from my Daughter