nightmares

Our household is quite used to the problem of nightmares. Emma has at least one most nights. She has them about everything from falling off cliffs to shoes chasing her. Alex had a nightmare last night and while it was obviously very upsetting for him it was very hard to keep a straight face when I worked out what was the problem. He had a nightmare that they weren't going to do maths at school any more. Yep that was the whole nightmare.....no more maths. On a gut wrenching scale I wouldn't have thought this would rate very high for most children, but he was in tears at the prospect of no more maths. I had to speak to his teacher this morning and have her reassure him that they would be doing maths every day and there were no plans to avoid it. As a parent you expect to be dealing with little hurdles through their lives, but if any one had asked me what I thought I would be dealing with as my children were growing up the fear of a lack of maths would probably not have been on my list.

Hope this makes everyone elses world look a little more normal.

Dan