I always made it a point to meet my daughter's teachers. I wanted to meet them so if my daughter felt intimidated by any of them I could help her with it. Other than her first grade teacher who did not get that she was telling him the truth about not being able to read because of the dyslexia, I found she got along with all her other teachers. She always tried very hard and the teachers respected that. My daughter for a while wanted to be a teacher because she loved the learning environment. She was leaning towards becoming a math teacher. That's because her math teacher was a really nice teacher and contributed to her love of math.

One thing I never did was give my daughter any impression that she had to be some kind of top student for me. I really wanted her to love the learning itself.