msbelle, I'm sorry about your friend and mac's grades. It sucks when a whole bunch of things go wrong all at once.

I'm so sorry msbelle. Best wishes to your friend. Hugs for you. Hope Mac knows how hard you care about him.

Echoing Kat. I'm sorry.

Not a great day here. But the good news is I'm very zen or just really good at embracing that river in Egypt. Nothing worth reporting, I'm just darkly amused at how 'well,fuck' turns into 'fuck, whatever.'

I am not dealing with what I know about mac's grades. I'll get the email tomorrow and I will text him and my parents the consequences.

Tonight he is asking for a messaging app that everything I just read says it is a pedophile/sexting filled mess with no safeguards. geez. KIK. anyone use it?

Tonight he is asking for a messaging app that everything I just read says it is a pedophile/sexting filled mess with no safeguards. geez. KIK. anyone use it?

I've never used it, but I know it's popular with teenagers. As for the sexting stuff, do you think he's responsible enough to follow rules like "Don't accept messages from strangers" and "Let an adult know if someone asks you to send a photo"?

I don't use KIK, but some of the sketchier personals ads I've read lately seem to favor it as a method of communication. I'd give that one an Oh HELL No! for a teenager to be using.

I've never used KIK either, but I've talked about it with a friend who is a social worker and works with kids. She has concerns about sexual predators as well, mostly because tweens and teens often are lacking in impulse control and good judgement.

It's possible to use the app and be perfectly safe, but only if you turn on all the privacy settings, don't post your username anywhere, and don't respond to any messages from strangers who've guessed your username.

Extra ugh, msbelle. Can you use the "it's not you, it's other people I'm worried about" line, or does that no longer work?

And I'm sorry about the crap day, sarameg.

So the meeting I went to was a gifted meeting at Franny's school. My take away message was that the accelerated math program is a hot mess and thank dawg Frances is in the regular math class, with the ONE math teacher I've heard say things like "I don't care what the pace of the class is *supposed* to be, I'd rather take the time for the students to learn the concept correctly now or there will be holes in their knowledge later" instead of "the standards are so rigorous and hard, many of the students won't get it, many of them struggle with it, you really have no idea, the class is just SO HARD!"

Liese, insent you some song feedback last night.

Oh, msbelle, so sorry. That's a lot of shit to deal with at once.