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I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.

I was terrible at school.

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

I wasn't good at school.

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.

I had to work at everything.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.