I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it... Gertrude Stein

8/30/2004

I give up.

Why, if you were a teacher, would you just assume that your student's parents remember all the way back to second grade how to do stair stepping for spelling?

I had to ask my ten-year-old how to do my freshly-minted eight-year-old's spelling homework.