I Don’t Expect My Kids To Have Perfect Grades

Jessica Smith
4 min readSep 10, 2019

Effort Equals Results

Image by Cole Stivers from Pixabay

Two years ago my oldest son had a birthday over the weekend. You’d expect him to be happy about that but he was withdrawn and sullen the whole time. I couldn’t get it out of him what was wrong.

As his mom, I knew SOMETHING was wrong. This kid is usually a happy go lucky guy. Nothing phases him. So what was wrong?

Jessica Smith

Writer and mother. I write about whatever pops into my head. Relationships, Self, Mental Health, Parenting, Whatever. https://twitter.com/3282jessicah