I’m putting this here so I can find it again: “No Thanks, We Don’t Believe in Socialization People often use the bully as an example of why it’s so important to let kids “socialize” at school. If that’s so important,…
Our DFCS Experience
You know, I kept meaning to write about this and forgetting to actually do it. Way back on May 7 of 2003, I was very surprised to get a call from a social worker at the Department of Family &…
Grow Up!
This has absolutely nothing to do with anybody who reads my journal (as far as I know, anyway), or anyone in my household or circle of friends/family. It is a general rant against an attitude I’ve seen too damned many…
Tips for Talking About President Bush With Your Children
Tips for Talking About President Bush With Your Children
Scattered Thoughts
It’s 5 pm already? How did that happen?
Being a Host
As the practice of entertaining at home has, unfortunately, fallen by the wayside, many people have missed out on learning how to do so politely. I know that I am not at all qualified to host, for instance, a formal…
When You Take Children to Other People’s Homes
Continuing the prior article, these are the specific additional guidelines to be followed when one is a guest in someone’s home and has children with you. Again—do they make sense? What have I left out? If you disagree with something,…
Swimming Pool Nuisance
Our complex has a “pool monitor” who is present during the day so that kids ages 10 and up can swim without their parents if they’ve passed a swimming test. That’s what the information we were given when we rented…
Randomness for Monday!
I’m already missing Katie. Shelley is, too. Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. – Charles Dickens The vocabulary lists to which I subscribe were just full of goodness today. I never understood why…
Stepkids Report
I can’t help it, it’s funny. The first few days littlefirefae and real_pochacco spent in the Bay area with their mother were unseasonably hot. In their first conversation with sambear after arrival, real_pochacco couldn’t stop complaining about it. Of course,…