Oh yeah, totally me too.

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Yep, SA is right. I have a friend who is Heap Big Caver Dude (DON'T call 'em spelunkers! That's for amateurs.) He does all these amazing grueling cave expiditions, down and dirty, days in caves. Nothing I can do, but he is fabulous at it.

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This was me in school (still is in some ways) with a good amount of stubborn mixed in.

I don't have any solution for the lack of motivation. I can make him do the damn work, but I can't make him care. Frustrating, but I don't know any way that my mother could have made me care about HS. I can expose him to a variety of life experiences and I can force him to attend school and do the assignments. I don't know how to force another human to give a damn. And I hope for him to find some inspiration somewhere sometime.

I know what you are saying Cindy. My kids are totally different. My 3 sibs and I are totally different. Don't know why it happens that way. Keeps parents on their toes. You think you have something figured out and then the other kid blows the theory to hell.

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Yep, SA is right. I have a friend who is Heap Big Caver Dude (DON'T call 'em spelunkers! That's for amateurs.) He does all these amazing grueling cave expiditions, down and dirty, days in caves. Nothing I can do, but he is fabulous at it.

Thanks, SA and Erin. I figured, but I didn't want to assume, and there was the whole, "PAY ATTENTION," part, which I figured would matter to cavers who explore caves, but it was easier to ask.

I would love that, if I could walk down a well lit, clean hallway to the cave. /wimp

You think you have something figured out and then the other kid blows the theory to hell.

Exactly, Laura. The most useful experience-based knowledge I feel is health/nutrition/illness related stuff, and baby-toddler stuff. My kids are still at the age too, where their teachers still have a lot of influence on them. They still want to please their teachers. The only difficult experience we've had to date was Ben's second grade year, and it was just a chemistry thing. She wasn't a bad teacher. She and Ben just didn't get each other. Julia has that same teacher this year, but I suspect Julia will excel with her (if only to get her brother's goat). Chris has the teacher Julia had last year. Her class is very busy, and was perfect for Julia, but I'm a little afraid Chris will spend all his time in his imaginary multiverse. We'll see.

Ben started middle school (they do it a year early in our town; and I think ten is way too damned young to be in middle school, but whatever) this week, and likes it so far. There's much more distance between the teachers and parents though, so it's taking me a while to get used to it.

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Ben started middle school (they do it a year early in our town; and I think ten is way too damned young to be in middle school, but whatever) this week, and likes it so far. There's much more distance between the teachers and parents though, so it's taking me a while to get used to it.

Emmett turns 10 in a few weeks, but won't be in middle school until next year. I'd think that was too early also.

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It's a space issue in the elementary schools, so all our fifth graders are up at the middle school. The mantra they keep feeing us is, "We keep them very separate," and I think they do, but I still think it's more social pressure than you need in fifth grade. I don't like the middle school model, anyhow. I also don't think the sixth graders belong up there. They also don't have recess, after the first few weeks. Ten, eleven and twelve year olds need recess.

When I was in junior high, our junior high ran from 7th through 9th grade. It's not like that in my old town any more, but I think that was a better age division. And there were a lot fewer freshman girls getting drunk and foolish with senior boys in our town, than in the neighboring towns. t /uphill both ways and we liked it

Hec, have you felt some relief with your writing, now that Emmett is back at school?

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I meant to link this, earlier. Does everyone remember the Colbert Report baby [link] I think Robin originally linked to him in Natter. I accidentally managed to watch The Colbert Report, the night they used the baby as their intro. Someone's put it on YouTube: [link]

There's a second episode of the Colbert Baby now, here: [link] It's not as funny as the first. I'm not sure anything could be as funny as the first, but I just love the baby's obsession with Colbert.

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Hee. We could make a hella killing, shipping 'Ffista kids off to various 'Ffistas for a week in summer. Book camp, caver camp, robot camp, sex ed camp, math camp, music camp. What else? Rock climbing, research, SNARK, computers, marketing, guerilla law.

Applying eyeliner, DIY fashion skills, and Working in the Game Industry (an Overview). At least, that's what it would be at our place.

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don't have any solution for the lack of motivation. I can make him do the damn work, but I can't make him care. Frustrating, but I don't know any way that my mother could have made me care about HS. I can expose him to a variety of life experiences and I can force him to attend school and do the assignments. I don't know how to force another human to give a damn. And I hope for him to find some inspiration somewhere sometime.

I have a teacher friend who had a son with Lack of motivation. I think it was his Junior year ( maybe sophmore ) year he flunked English - purely due to not careing. Instead of sending him to summer school - she sent him to the local community college - saying - this is college, it is different, you'll like it better, but you won't ever get there if you can't get out of high school. It did work. He never loved high school, but he did much better and is doing much better in college than he ever did in high school.

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How to mix live music. Proper etiquette for being backstage. How to properly hide a wireless mic.

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