My mum doesn't quite understand the concept of "working from home". She thinks it's my excuse for not going to work or is my boss' polite way of telling me she doesn't want me in the office. The last time I went on extended MC for chicken pox, she actually asked if my boss was angry that I was absent for so long.

If only parents remain old-school this way, only in the good way. Where authority in school counts more than a word from a spoilt child. Mr. Y will then have an easier time as a teacher, not having to attend to overwhelming no. of complaints from parents in future.

My parents never spent much time with me growing up but they never once gave me the leeway to disobey teachers or to lodge a complaint with every whine.

A balance. Hopefully, working parents do not overcompensate their children for lack of time spent together, by overriding teachers at school.

Or so i say now. :)