This is when you just want to open the top of their heads and spoon in the common sense.
At least it's a spoon with some. Others, you need a ladle.
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DCJensen - Apr 11, 2006 8:10:44 am PDT #8670 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
brenda m - Apr 11, 2006 8:11:09 am PDT #8671 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ooh! My coworker just rode down in the elevator with Jesse Jackson!
Trudy Booth - Apr 11, 2006 8:11:31 am PDT #8672 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
TCBITW is nearly SEVEN?!?!?!?!?
How do these things happen ?
SailAweigh - Apr 11, 2006 8:12:17 am PDT #8673 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Well, Trudy, it starts with a man and a woman....
Betsy HP - Apr 11, 2006 8:12:34 am PDT #8674 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
At least it's a spoon with some. Others, you need a ladle.
Mine? Firehose.
Gudanov - Apr 11, 2006 8:12:59 am PDT #8675 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I missed your post erikaj, you deleted before I got caught up.
The whole lack of common sense thing sounds very frustrating. I hope the common sense fairy makes some visits.
Laura - Apr 11, 2006 8:15:37 am PDT #8676 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Are you sure your son isn't my son?
I know! It would be so easy for them to just do the damn work and hand it in. But it gets lost. He doesn't put his name on it. It's never ending and next year the teachers get less tolerant.
By the numbers he shouldn't even be passed on to high school, but all that seems to matter are the testing scores and of course he nails those. Grrr.
I did just eat a huge bowl of tomato soup with oyster crackers. Yum. Comfort food.
erikaj - Apr 11, 2006 8:17:23 am PDT #8677 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, it's okay. Expletive-laden blurting only rarely adds to things, outside of Deadwood.
Laura - Apr 11, 2006 8:22:07 am PDT #8678 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I keep trying to talk her into soccer team, but she doesn't want to join a team even she talks about liking soccer. Parenting hard.
Yeah, sports are good for the social skills. And that much more parent work! We do have a lot of kids in the neighborhood. Neither of the boys go to their "home" schools so the friends they make at school they don't see that much out of school. The friends in the neighborhood they don't go to school with. Kids need other kids.
Volans - Apr 11, 2006 8:22:15 am PDT #8679 of 10001
move out and draw fire
That's what concerns me about home-schooling also. In my opinion, school is about socialization, not learning data. I learned just as much on my own, or from my parents, as far as factual stuff (what's "torque?" what are the primary colors?) but what few social skills I developed I got from school.
I think it's pretty crucial to go through the good and the bad stuff at school; the group dynamics, being picked last for football and first for Ac-Dec, learning to turn work in on time, getting up and having to be someplace.