Lauren Todd

Husband @jrosenbaum : I deleted Twitter from my phone for the weekend. You should do that. Me: I just roasted you for asking me if I keep the post office hours

6/5 at 5 pm. 2/3 of my children are screaming. Must be summer break.

Popping briefly back on to the Twitter verse to share this.

Me to PreK after he farts: “Oof! I’ve been smelling a lot of farts today. Do you need to go to the bathroom? PreK: “maybe you’re smelling your own farts.” My little gaslighter. 😒

I tease @jrosenbaum when he is randomly thanked by @stlpublicradio listeners. Today my Prek’s principal stopped me in the pick up line and told me how kind PreK was to the new kid. My point: sometimes it’s just nice when someone tells you that you’re doing a great job.

Vent: I feel like we’ve had constant school spirit weeks, themed days, and events for the past three weeks. It’s too damn much.

“A ‘gina is just a penis folded in half.” -the PreK kid. This was in response to a conversation about blue is arbitrarily designated as a boy color.

When daycare informs you that your baby is indeed walking only she refuses to do it at home. #secretwalker

Suggested book fair ewallet deposit? $30. Effs no. PreK kid gets $10 which is generous in 1990s book fair money.

“I don’t like you or the stuff you do.” - overheard during a four-year-old playdate squabble.

During a parent-teacher conference with my kid's speech therapist. Her: "We've been working on 'Stop. Think. Answer.' " Me: "I am going to use this with adults."

Tell me about all the strange #cartoons you grew up watching. I still think about David the Gnome at least once a week. It was a show about a gentle gnome who cares for all the animals of the forest and I watched it religiously.

If you haven’t changed all your virtual assistant’s voices to male or non-binary voice settings, let me tell you how awesome it is. #fuckthepatriarchy

I tasked him with remembering his costume tomorrow.

Plus it’s parent teacher conferences, random spirit week with themed days, no school Friday and Monday, and life.

Nothing like getting schooled by your prek kiddo because you forgot that it was the first of two costume days. “Why did you forget?” My dude, mother keeps track of all the things.

In the Midwest “I’ll let you know” means we’re not coming

Especially with kids with IEPS, this will help reframe the conversation to focus on strengths AND then areas that need help.

As we enter parent-teacher conference season, here is a great opening line for your conversations with teachers and support staff (suggested by the campus Child and Family Care Facilitator): "Tell me one thing that you love about working with my kid."