LILLY HOLLAND
  • About
    • BIo
  • On Parenting
  • On Teaching
  • Additional Writing Samples
    • The Hours
    • Report Card Narrative
    • Night Night Tink
  • FAMILY TRAVEL

From the Desk of Mrs. Holland

COM-MER-CIAL

1/28/2018

0 Comments

 
After recess today my students returned to the classroom. As Margaux -- pronounced Mar-GOH, not to be mistaken  for “Margo”-- walked in the door, her shoulders were slumped forward. She moseyed on over to her desk and put her head down.

“Margaux?” I asked, kneeling beside her. No response.

“Margaux?” I asked again. “What’s the matter?” She took a deep sigh and picked her head up, pushing the bangs off of her forehead. “Did something happen at recess?”

“No.”
“Did someone hurt your feelings?”
“No.”

We went back and forth another few times until she sighed again and said, 
“Ok, you really wanna know?” I nodded encouragingly. “I have to fly today.”

Oh thank God, I thought. Crisis averted. There was no big drama on the playground that I missed, no philosophical question I had to find an answer to. Just a little girl who was afraid to get on an airplane.

“Is it your first time flying, sweetie?” I crooned. Katie yanked her head back and scrunched up her face, appalled. She might as well have given me the finger. It was as if I proposed eating spiders for lunch.   

With the sass of a teenager she said, “No Mrs. Holland, It’s my first time flying COM-MER-CIAL.”

I stared at her, dumbfounded. I may have rolled my eyes at her. And with that, she pranced over to the library and yanked a book out of another child’s hand. 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Lilly Holland is a former New Yorker turned suburbanite who writes about parenting and her former career as a teacher in an elite NYC private school. She can be reached at Lilly.m.holland@gmail.com. 

    Archives

    January 2018
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • About
    • BIo
  • On Parenting
  • On Teaching
  • Additional Writing Samples
    • The Hours
    • Report Card Narrative
    • Night Night Tink
  • FAMILY TRAVEL