Some parents are good at noting the important events, others… at making up for it in the sweets raffle
he Christmas fair in my son’s school was, like all such things, unexpected. This is no one’s fault, but my own. I have a tendency to be – nay, an addiction to being – the last person to know about anything going on in his school. It is entirely my fault, you understand.
I agreed because it’s good and right to support your school and because I always envisage myself – my future self – as the kind of person who is better at remembering such commitments than I am. The perfect, engaged parent the kind who is deeply connected to the things going on around him. For whom remembering Christmas fairs is just ‘something I do’.
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