Alison Curtis: I want my daughter to know how to manage stress in school

Throughout Joan’s school years, I have wanted her to excel and do well likely because I associated feeling good about it myself when this happened to me as a child.

My daughter Joan started fourth class this year and so far has been loving it. She is really enjoying the curriculum and as I mentioned before in this column, she is getting a kick out of teaching me Irish.

There is a definite jump in content between third and fourth class, as you would expect. Along with doing more Irish lovely topics of cooking, science and geography are coming home daily as part of the homework.