Yikes! Power out at our house.
I got my first glasses in 7th grade and totally had that OH that's how the world really looks! moment.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Jul 29, 2010 10:08:00 am PDT #15259 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
lisah - Jul 29, 2010 10:08:00 am PDT #15260 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Beverly - Jul 29, 2010 10:08:17 am PDT #15261 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I just don't want him to correlate things with affection. He gets lots and lots and lots of affection, but I can see how he is starting to get the "gotta have it" bug.
Yes, this is exactly why I mentioned it. StY and I have done a lot of work with A, getting him to think about why he's so needy about getting new stuff, especially since he doesn't care about it once he has it. He still wants All The Things, but he's getting better at taking a minute and stepping back, thinking through his OMGWANT impulse. If he can make a coherent argument why the new thing is a good thing for him to have, and if he's willing to clean up his pit of a room and clear out three broken and useless items, plus one useable item to donate, he gets the new thing, if it's appropriate.
So he not only earns it, but thinks his way through the process. I know, we're awful tyrants, but the truth is, his mom and her side of the family just pile crap on him to get him to play quietly in his room and get that kickback "You give me stuff, I love you!" from him.
Can't wait to hear about M's new glasses!
Jessica - Jul 29, 2010 10:08:23 am PDT #15262 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And that's when I realized that Impressionism was more than just a popular art style of the day, but rather how I was living my life.
Isn't there a theory that Monet wasn't so much getting more Impressionist in his later years so much as losing his eyesight?
Jesse - Jul 29, 2010 10:09:07 am PDT #15263 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I still have moments of realizing my glasses could be better -- I'm pretty sure I have had more than one conversation with msbelle where I was saying, "You can see that?!?!?!"
megan walker - Jul 29, 2010 10:10:43 am PDT #15264 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Isn't there a theory that Monet wasn't so much getting more Impressionist in his later years so much as losing his eyesight?
The only place I heard that was on Seinfeld. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
flea - Jul 29, 2010 10:11:34 am PDT #15265 of 30001
information libertarian
The last day Athens GA had a high in the 70s was May 30 (79.2). Wah.
Beverly - Jul 29, 2010 10:12:53 am PDT #15266 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
It's so frustrating. Both my kids had 20-15 eyesight, H does too, correctable, though his unaided eyesight is much worse than mine. Mine isn't correctable to 20-20, so in the car, I'm sussing out highway signs by intuition and the shape of words--which can be hysterical when I intuit "Pizza" for "Plaza", for example--while H is actually reading them.
Jessica - Jul 29, 2010 10:14:08 am PDT #15267 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The only place I heard that was on Seinfeld.
Eh, sitcom joke, art history theory - potato, potahto...
SuziQ - Jul 29, 2010 10:18:37 am PDT #15268 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
He still wants All The Things, but he's getting better at taking a minute and stepping back, thinking through his OMGWANT impulse
With my kids it was teaching them to separate want from need. I remember going through a time with Kelly were she wasn't allowed to say "want" at all. She found other ways, of course. "Oh mommy, look at that pretty widgit. Isn't it a useful widgit? Weren't you saying recently that a widgit like that would make your life easier?" Crafty kids.