{"id":1186,"date":"2013-02-25T19:13:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2013-02-25T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T02:13:26","slug":"3-irrational-fears-during-parentteacher-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/2013\/02\/25\/3-irrational-fears-during-parentteacher-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Irrational Fears During Parent\/Teacher Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1187\" style=\"width: 456px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fear.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Flickr user: Kevin B 3\" width=\"456\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fear.jpg 456w, https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fear-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Flickr user: Kevin B 3<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nToday my wife and I went to a parent teacher conference for our 7 year old son. While I know he is a good student, a great listener, a rule follower, and a great kid there are always irrational fears that pop into mind when I go to these things. And none of them include the fear of busting my kneecaps sitting in those tiny chairs! I know they are irrational but they are real fears. Heck, you may have some of them too. <\/p>\n<h3>FEAR #1: My child is just like me.<\/h3>\n<p>What if my child is shy just like I was as a kid? What if he feels nervous about recess because he doesn&#8217;t have any friends? What if he gets teased because he&#8217;s a brainiac? After all, this is my kid! I created this human being! I hope my wife&#8217;s good genes overcame my bad ones. I hope that I did my time so that my children don&#8217;t have to. Isn&#8217;t that the goal for every parent?<\/p>\n<h3>FEAR #2: My child is behind in school because of me.<\/h3>\n<p>Have I been attentive enough and patient enough and conscientious enough with his after school learning? Have I defaulted too much to screen time activities instead of reading activities? Parenting is tough especially after a long day at work. Was I patient enough?<\/p>\n<h3>FEAR #3: My child is different at school than at home.<\/h3>\n<p>Like I said my kids are well-behaved good children. But there&#8217;s always a fear that they turn into different people at school. Are they self-confident enough to be themselves? Have we taught them to be proud of who they are and what they believe in? <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gray_horizontal_breaker.gif\" alt=\"gray_horizontal_breaker\" width=\"625\" height=\"10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-890\" \/><br \/>\nMy kids are doing well. And I am so proud of them. The great thing about irrationality is you have to acknowledge the lack of rationality to assign its irrationality. Boy, that sentence is horrible. I hope my kids don&#8217;t inherit my writing skills. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my wife and I went to a parent teacher conference for our 7 year old son. While I know he is a good student, a great listener, a rule follower, and a great kid there are always irrational fears that pop into mind when I go to these things. And none of them include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}