Mom's Hilarious Letter To Her Daughters' Teachers

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 10 Reasons To Thank A Preschool Teacher "If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers." -Edgar W. Howe Spring break (and winter and summer, and the average weekend for that matter) always gives me a new appreciation for teachers. Over the course of our most recent 9-day break, I realized that I would rather be sitting in a middle class seat, in coach, on a 15-hour nonstop flight to Cairo than spend nearly two weeks at home with both children. As the image of this wondrous flight lingered in my brain, I began searching Expedia for hot deals. PHOTOS: Most Adorable Maurice Sendak Tribute You'll See The New Hot Baby Name Many Parents Find Annoying WATCH: Hilarious 'Somebody That I Used To Know' Lipsync PHOTOS: Dad's Incredible Pancake Art Woman Gives Birth 5 Hours After Finding Out She Was Pregnant BLOG POSTS Lisa Belkin: Why So Many Studies About Parents And Happiness Are Wrong In marathons as in parenting, it is BECAUSE of the hard parts, rather than in spite of them, that the entire messy, maddening race is worth running. Mia Farrow: Making Mother's Day More Meaningful: A Different Way to Spend $14.6 Billion Mother's Day is our chance to honor the women who bind families together and raise children from babies to adulthood. Dina R. Rose: Do Kids Need to Snack? What the French Know That We Don't Americans try to prevent hunger. The French cultivate it. Susan Orlins: The Downside of Mother's Day For me, the dreading begins the Friday before, when my daughters, brimful of anticipation, arrive home with the crafts they have made at school. Raina Wallens: I Want Breakfast in Bed! When is Stepmother's Day? It's stepparents -- the very people who don't actually have an official day -- who could, well, kind of use one.

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