Great.
Because I needed something ELSE in my life to stress about, when I got to daycare to pick AB up, there was a note from her teacher saying she'd had a very rough day. She refused to line up after morning recess to come inside, instead running away. Once she was caught, she refused to walk up the stairs back to the class and had to be carried up, screaming and kicking the teacher the whole time. She refused to take a time out and ran around the room yelling at the teacher. She finally sat down for time out, but then refused to get on her bed for naptime and screamed "No!" and "Leave me alone!" at her teacher.
Apparently this is something that has been building for the past few weeks, which fits with how she's been acting at home. And I don't know what to do about it, because other than giving her a timeout every time and explaining what she did wrong, what CAN you do? I believe that spanking is wrong, but I can understand why people are tempted to do it, because timeouts aren't working.
From earlier post:
I would pay to see ND in a Squiward costume.
DH thinks Annabel is showing incipient signs of his ADHD. I think she's showing my knee-jerk authority issues (which I can remember going back to early childhood). I suppose those aren't mutually exclusive.
How much?
I'm in for $5. Should we open a "Squidward costume for ND" paypal fund?
oh and in "oh thank goodness" news, good roommate says evil roommate will pay the rent and move out by March 1st. Yay!
Sweet! Hey Kristin, I found out how we can pay for a nice vacation!
How much?
I'm in for $5. Should we open a "Squidward costume for ND" paypal fund?
I'm in for at least $20. I think this truly is a paypal item.
Coldwater Creek sometimes has great sales online, too.
On occasion, Penney's is more stylish than you'd think in the women's department. They had some kind of style overhaul about five years ago.
My weekly trivia occasion ended on a surreal note, when a transformer went out in the storm. We all had to frantically check out while the battery power lasted on the cash register.
TOO then goes off on a rant about how much it must suck to be a king in England if it's always the Queen that are "bloody" and making all the decisions and tries to lecture *ME* on the British monarchy and succession.
!!!
...for her next trick, will she try teaching ita about martial arts? Perhaps explain to ND how he should design sound? Tell Jilli all about the goth subculture?
!!!
iow, heavens, she earned her smack-down, and then some. (Yay for being prococious! But Boo Hiss for being obnoxious. The two
can
be mutually exclusive.)
Susan, I'm
loving
your dress-for-the-writer-you-want-to-be thing. And indeed, it's giving me food for thought myself - not in terms of how I dress, but in terms of how I can think about how I dress. (Feeling a bit down at the moment, having had several people make somewhat 'well, you're a total freak' flavoured comments about my appearance. Not that they said
that,
but that seemed to be the subtext. And not in a good way. Which I shouldn't object to, obviously, because I
do
dress rather eccentrically - but, you know, I'm pretty much all about the 'you march to your own drumbeat, and good luck to you' kind of outlook, for the most part. And although I'm camp as tits, I'm just
not
all about the whole bitchqueen side of campness. I really don't like being snippy about people's clothes or personalities, unless they are
total bastards.
So - feeling a little bruised about being ribbed about my clothes and personality lately. Which is stupid, because I'm normally quite cheerful and thick-skinned about it these days. [...of course I have been
menstruating (v. lightly) nonstop since November. This has happened before, 6 or 7 years ago, and I'm NOT freaking out about it. I'm just assuming it's the PCOS screwing with my system in a new and interesting way and hoping it will stop soon.
This may be having a bit of an impact on my emotions, though. Maybe.])
