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Show Moth? $ Msmty Queen At 7 AM J By YICKIK M.UHKSON It is 7 a.m. and Mom emerges from the bedroom wearing a bright cotton dress and make-up. She is on her way to fix breakfast for the family. She has decided that not only will dinner be a time for the family to communicate, but breakfast will be also. Don't worry, all this will wear off in about a week. This is meiely a stage that mothers go through at the beginning of every school year. IT SEEMS that when the children start back to school in the fall everyone makes new commitments. It is a lot like New Year's. Teachers, for example, come back with a new resolve to use their preparation prepara-tion periods preparing better lessons. But by the end of the second month they are back to using that time to rest and recover before facing the next class. Even principals make new resolves to spend more time with the students; to get to know them individually. indi-vidually. But after they spend the first month roaming roam-ing the halls and meeting the kids, they remember why they spent so much time in their office the previous year it is much safer. ELEMENTARY school teachers also vow that they will have more patience with their students and that they won't mind if the students spend recess time in the classroom. They convince themselves 1 1 that it will allow time for teacher and pupil to grow closer. Naturally this wears off every year before the end of the first term, and the minute the recess bell rings these teachers usher every child out the door, quickly locking it behind them just so they can have ten minutes of peace. When 1 was in school I could always tell when a new school year began just by the interns 1 received in my lunch box. At the beginning of the year my mom always packed clever little lunches with banana nut bread and hot soup. After the first month 1 got plain bologna sandwiches and after the second month Mom always tried to talk me into eating the hot lunches prepared by the school. I REALLY didn't mind the change. The first month I loved carrying my new lunch box to and from school. By the second month I found out what a chore it was to remember to take that dumb box home with me after school. And by the third month I realized if I took the hot lunches prepared by the school I wouldn't even have to remember to carry my box with me in the morning-I only had to remember remem-ber money once a week. I guess it is a good thing that so many resolutions wear off so soon after the school year begins. Especially Espe-cially the one requiring the family to eat breakfast together. No one can take that much family communications com-munications so early in the morning. |