Kayla Fay's Page

Hi Mary,

Thanks for the welcome. I'm a mom, and not a teacher. We have four sons. I'm a writer, and my current project is science projects. I get Google alerts for blogs/news articles with the term "science fair", and scour them daily for ideas and topics. I ran across "oursciencefair" and just thought it was brilliant. When your forum entry showed up and I read the content, I posted about it. I also got some great insight into the teacher's perspective on the fair process - thank you very much!

I'd love to be able to contribute a parent's perspective to your discussions. We have four sons, with only one left in high school. But while they were in school, we had very close working relationships with their teachers. Our first three had ADHD Inattentive, and getting them through school was a joint effort - child, parent, teacher.

Thank God for teachers that saw them for the wonderful boys that they were, and helped them learn to find ways to focus and be organized and cope. If it weren't for some really terrific and patient teachers...who knows? Two of ours are in college, now - still struggling but succeeding - and one is doing very well in the Navy Our last one - thankfully he wasn't first - does it all on his own. (That's a sigh of relief you just heard.).

So, if you don't mind the participation of a non- teacher, I'd love to be able to share from my experiences where appropriate.