Standardized Jesting – Each spring, your child’s ability to endure hours of testing without making/launching paper footballs, poking his/her neighbor with a newly sharpened pencil and making rude noises is rigorously challenged for days on end. It’s the last big hurdle before spring fever can fully kick in.

C - The universal, go-to default multiple-choice test answer when you haven’t a clue

Get the lead out – The step before the testing commences – all you need is that ubiquitous No. 2 pencil!

No-no 2 pencil – It’s testing day and you can’t get the lead out because you have no pencil

Scoring – On the football field? Fabulous. In the back seat of the car? Over my dead body!!

Rank - Your son’s gym bag

Constructed Response – You know it when you see it. It begins when you ask a simple question like “Are you done with your homework?”

Multiple Choice – Really, the only choice is success, isn’t it??

MPT (Mom Performance Test) – You take this one very single day! In fact, if there was a time trial for lunch box assembly followed by make-it-to-carpool-on-time you’d be holding the world record and wearing the championship belt buckle!

Attitude Tests - Your tween’s attitude tests you each and every day, what with the eye-rolling and foot-dragging.