Thank you for joining our Views on Back-to-School! VolunteerSpot is honored to be featuring guest posts from our favorite bloggers about back-to-school. Today, please welcome Danielle Smith, author of Extraordinary Mommy. On her site, Danielle provides vlogging tips and writes about the everyday experiences that make being a parent the best job in the world. Today, Danielle expresses how important it is to have a teacher that really cares about your child. Thanks Danielle!
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A Letter to My Daughter's Teacher
By Danielle Smith
Dear First Grade Teacher~
Somehow sending my sweet girl off to school for first grade was nearly as bittersweet as last year's steps into Kindergarten. I should be good at this by now, right? I've seen her in her uniform. She's been under a teacher's care for the full day. She's come home stronger, smarter and sassier.
And yet, I still feel compelled to share a few words with you. I want you to know her.
That goofy nature, the desire to make silly faces, the contagious giggle? She gets that from her Daddy. She comes by her love of play and joking ways honestly. From him she has learned to laugh and tease, smile and see the best in almost every situation.
The sensitivity? The dramatic? I'll own up to those traits. She and I share those. Oh, and the freckles, too.
But that tendency to be a bit shy? She doesn't get that from either of us. That is all her. So is her heart, her kindness, her wish to be independent, her beautiful singing voice, her love of friends and that deep-down-belly-laughter.
She doesn't love to read yet, but I'm trying. Math and Science are ok, but art? And music? Just try to stop her.
I just want you to know, in walking my little girl into your classroom, I am both excited and apprehensive. I'm thrilled for the adventures that lie ahead of her. I'm delighted she has you to guide her. But I am watching time slip away. With every uniform skirt she dons, every classroom she enters, with every word she learns to read and write, with every moment she lets go of my hand to take a friend's, I am forced to let a little piece of my baby girl slip away.
I know you will handle her with care. I have watched you with the children, the eye contact, the smiles, the enthusiasm, the genuine love you share. For this, I am grateful.
And if you would, warn her second grade teacher. I don't think I'll be letting go by then either.
Love,
Delaney's Mom
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Danielle Smith is the wife of one of the funniest guys in the world and
Mommy to two sweet and sassy small people. In her ‘free time’, she
balances work as the founder and primary author of
ExtraordinaryMommy.com as well as hosting and producing Bliss TV, creating Vlogging Tips
for people looking to jump on camera and traveling around the country
to speak on a wide variety of topics ranging from video and vlogging to
blogger/brand relationships, the use of social media and the benefits
of cause marketing. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.
What a sweet post...and sweet girl!
Posted by: Ellen | August 24, 2010 at 09:20 PM