Nine years have passed since the release of “Diary of a First-Grader’s Mom.” And now I’m going back to school—this time with my first-grader daughter. What has changed? Everything and nothing. “Cha-cha” is still written with the letter “a,” and “chu-shchu” is still written with “u.” But there are now parental “WhatsApps,” new holidays, new textbooks. Yes, I forgot to say the most important thing—my daughter went to school not on September 1, but on January 11, because I made a mistake about the door. I think that’s already funny.
Masha Traub