age 12 was the year I cried. At everything and nothing. So I 'm going to say that over reaction to embarrassment is not out of line. I'm more concerned with the hitting . But then again I grew up with no hitting as a rule of life. Not to say I never did, but there was rarely more than one punch. Of course, the older one being snotty wasn't great behavior - I'm going to guess that is a hot button for the 11 year old.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
beth b - May 05, 2014 9:46:46 pm PDT #26941 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
hippocampus - May 06, 2014 1:31:00 am PDT #26942 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Good luck to Grace!
Sue - May 06, 2014 2:36:47 am PDT #26943 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Best of luck to Grace!
I some pictures of Lupita where she was moving in her dress and...I kind of liked it.
Jesse - May 06, 2014 2:47:08 am PDT #26944 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck, Grace!!
Eh, I kinda feel like on the one hand, "lame" tends to be pretty disassociated from its actual meaning/origins. On the other hand, kids who say "that's so gay" try to claim the same thing, and I'm not ok with that, so....yeah.
Yeah.
sj - May 06, 2014 3:02:58 am PDT #26945 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Best of luck to Grace today!
Kat - May 06, 2014 3:03:27 am PDT #26946 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The hitting thing is not okay, and yet... it's a kid thing who doesn't have the ability to clearly say all of the mixed and pent up emotions.
Grace punches Noah a lot. More than we'd like. And we give her the punching lecture a lot. But.... it doesn't make much difference in her behavior. She tries, "Noah, STOP" or her favorite, "Stop it, Noah." But then she resorts to punching.
Thanks for all of the good luck wishes. She just left for the hospital with Katie.
-t - May 06, 2014 3:31:33 am PDT #26947 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lots of ~ma for Grace.
Laura - May 06, 2014 4:14:56 am PDT #26948 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Sending all the ~ma to Grace and family.
Younger siblings don't have a lot of tools to cope with older sib abuse. He kinda stood up for himself. Just hasn't figured out how to do that with more control.
My kids couldn't get away with 'gay' or 'retarded' at all, but I pretty much let lame go. I surely told them it wasn't appropriate more than once, but it gets to a picking your battles point. I'm confident they didn't make a connection to why it was offensive, but they knew clearly what the issue was with gay and retarded.
Theodosia - May 06, 2014 4:36:34 am PDT #26949 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
"Lame" at least can imply a temporary condition.
I've got to get going, but I slept in late (yeah, 8 is late for me). I was very pleased that the historic rice plantation I visited yesterday does NOT gloss over the slaves that actually did the work, including a long, long list of their names that historians have been able to gleam from the records.
Alas, no wild alligators, but I have hopes today.
-t - May 06, 2014 4:45:16 am PDT #26950 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Keep an eye on the trees, Theo.