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Rissa
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03-19-2006

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I dunno Costa, my girls have had several school dances cancelled because there wasn't enough interest to even go to the effort. We now have community teen dances once a month. Five schools, grades 6-8, sponsored by MTV who sets up the gym with giant tv screens showing videos. Snacks, drinks and gaudy necklaces, flashy badges etc for sale. Even with the 5 schools (which is at least 2,000 students) there has never been more than 150-175 at the dances. That's completely aside from the question of whether a school should limit attendance or not. In my experience getting 50% turnout would be an amazing number.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 3:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I think there's a diff between jr/high schools though, and Halloween parties for elementary kids, yes? I know when I was little, I attended all my elementary school carnivals. But I rarely, if ever, went to a junior or high school dance.

Rissa
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03-19-2006

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Could be, none of my girls ever went to an elementary school that held dances so I have no experience with those ages.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Gah! Do they HAVE elementary school dances????? Am I THAT old? :-)

Karen
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09-06-2004

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 7:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Apologies in advance to anyone in the field, but... I don't know who I hate more: nurses, or respiratory therapists.

Feels better just to put that out there, thanks.

Landileigh
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07-28-2002

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 10:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
karen... i'd say both. but that's from my experience at hospitals. a respiratory therapist is useless if you ask me. both in my husband's and my cases. stupid therapist took off my humidifier on my CPAP and added oxygen, which just dried me out to no end and i ended up sounding like I had emphysema, and they couldn't figure out why i had a dry hack, when all they had to do was put my humidifier back on!!

Karen
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09-06-2004

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 10:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
She's five weeks old now, with chronic lung disease. The RTs tell me that stroking her back while she sleeps or sometimes even just singing to her, causes too much excitement and makes breathing too difficult for her. I'm sure there's some truth to it, but I don't enjoy days when I'm told I'm not even allowed to talk to my little girl. :-(

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 10:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Sometimes I really have a love/hate relationship with medical personnel. It seems like it is so easy for them to say, "Oh, don't worry," or "stay calm."

We've been in some scary situations with Kota and her asthma and sitting in ER at 3 am and hearing someone say, "Stay calm, it'll be ok," doesn't help me calm down, it just makes me want to kick them! I know they are speaking from (hopefully a lot of) experience and they may be right with whatever they are advising, but it's not easy to hear when its your baby they're talking about.

I can't even begin to imagine how hard it must be for you when they're advising you to just sit and watch her. I'm sorry it was a tough day for you.

Karen
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09-06-2004

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 11:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Meh, they can't all be good days. It's ok. I wore my gumboots tonight and jumped in puddles on the way home. Puddle jumping has always cheered me up. :-)

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 2:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
I can't imagine how stroking her back could cause too much excitement.

A mother's touch or voice would be calming and reassuring.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
ITA with Doc!!!

Jmm
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08-15-2002

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jmm a private message Print Post    
Have I said how much I hate to sew?

After that statement I must admit that I volunteer to make Melodie's Halloween costume every year. LOL Every year I run into a place where I just can't seem to figure it out. I've hit that today - the back sides don't seem to fit the back. So I'm taking a break, playing here until I relax enough to try again. LOL

Debra
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11-20-2003

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 1:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    
((Jmm))

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
8:40 pm tonight, Caleb hands me a list and tells me he needs a few things from the store.

Pens/pencils
Lined paper
Project folder (actually, he wrote, "That lamination stuff to cover my paper with."
Feathers
Face make-up

I looked at him and said what the heck do you need feathers and face make up for? He told me they have to dress up, either in dress clothes or something having to do with the culture they discuss in their paper, for their oral presentation. He's going for a Native American look, I guess. And I could happily have happily strangled him at that moment, because his oral presentation is tomorrow flipping morning!

So, I asked him what he planned to do with the feathers and he told me he was going to put them in his hair. Asked him how he was going to make them stay.

*I posted this recently...Caleb is a very smart kid, we have the test scores to prove it! But sometimes the boy is lacking in common sense or else he's a normal teenager, I haven't quite decided yet.*

Do you know what he told me about how he planned to keep the feathers in his hair? Tape! He thought he could just tape them to his head! I didn't know if I should laugh or scream and what came out was somewhere in between the two cuz suddenly I realized, not only was I going to have to get dressed (of course, I was in my jammies by then) and run to the store to hunt down some damn feathers and face make up (luckily it's close to Halloween!) but I was going to have to come home and figure out how to get the damn feathers to work.

I was wandering around Walmart aimlessly thinking about that, I'd found feathers in a little kid craft kid, the kind that has the little pom pom balls to make silly animals, when it hit me. Came running home and grabbed one of Dakota's headbands (she has a ton of them,) flipped it inside out and duct taped the feathers to it. Flipped it right side out and snapped it around Caleb's head...for a quickie, last minute job, it doesn't look half bad.

Er, though when I stretched the headband to put it on him, the duct tape came loose and stuck to his hair. Oops. He did learn an important lesson though...tape in hair hurts!

Chewpito
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01-03-2004

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
Jmmm....I have to admire you for 'taking a break and relaxing your mind'...while sewing... Its such a healthy thing to do, and my biggest problem when sewing....Once I start Im hell bent on finishing even if Im cussing and seathing at the end....Sewing is a funny thing, when everything is running smooth its a relaxing and soothing thing...but once somthing hangs you up its pure hell'

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Can someone explain to me, please, why there are so many eejits in this world? How they heck hasn't the Darwin Effect thinned them out? (Sorry, I work with some serious eejits.)

'kthxbai.

Just needed to vent.

Sia
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03-10-2002

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
LOL, War, my DD needed feathers for an Indian headband several years ago for a class project, and I took her to my grandmother's house. We made a visit to the chicken house, where we found a couple of nice, perfect big feathers. After we sanitized them, they worked fine. I was able to hand-sew them to make them work. It was a cute project.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Sia, how did you sanitize them without damaging them.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
War - tell Caleb he's dang lucky he doesn't live here. If my son told me the same thing at the same hour, he'd be SOL. We are 40 miles from any store open past 8:00 that would carry those items. No way in heck I'd have left my house at almost 9 - wouldn't have goteen home until at least 10:30 - yup, he'd have not had his project done on time and I'd have said, "sucks to be you today - but you'll still be around tomorrow to try again!" :-)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL Sia, no chickens to collect feathers from here. When Kota and I were walking through Walmart we passed the cleaning aisle and I thought, it's dang lucky for him that I'd recently thrown my feather duster away or else I'd have put the little kid craft kit back and come home to pluck that!

Teach, I actually thought about that, but to his credit, he'd told me days ago he needed lined paper and I'd forgotten to pick it up for him, mostly because Kota had taken some out of her folder and given to him. If that hadn't been on the list, I may have said, sorry.

I think what frustrates me about Caleb is we have completely opposite ways of doing things. I always tackle easy things first and then work my way to the harder stuff while he starts with the harder stuff. Then if he gets to the end and doesn't have time for the easy stuff, no biggie to him. With this project, they had the written paper, the oral presentation (which was just a condensed version of the paper,) and the costume (which could be as simple as Caleb's headband and war paint.) Me, I'd have jumped on the costume part first! They did the written part first, then spent days working on the oral presentation and for Caleb, the costume was a last minute thing. On the plus side, they did put a lot of work into the written and oral parts. He says they got an A on the project.

This has been a rough week for Caleb. He had this project due and another for biology. He spent weeks working on the biology project, finally turned it in yesterday and got not only the full 100 pts, but got extra credit because he'd labelled every part of the model (they had to come up with an environment and animals, either real or make believe, then write about how everything worked, he made up his environment/animals, it was pretty cool) and really put a lot of thought and work into the project. Oh, yeah rough week. So they had the health project due, the biology project, and for English, they have to memorize and recite the first 8 stanza's of The Raven tomorrow.

Tonight, I got good pay back. He got home from school, told me about the health project and then told me he was totally stressed out. Between the biology and health projects, The Raven had taken a back burner and he hadn't studied it as much as he should have been. He only had the first 4 stanzas memorized and felt like he was stumbling through them. Told him I'd help and we got started. We had gone through it a couple times when I had to leave to get Kota and then I got back and we went through it a few more times. I had to leave again to take Darren and Kota to practice and run by the sporting goods store and then back to the park, but told him I'd come back and we'd go over it some more. Got back home, we worked on it for an hour and a half before I had to go get Darren and Dakota and then we had dinner, finally we did another hour and a half of it. By then he was frustrated and kicking himself for not having got more of it memorized sooner. He had stanzas 1-6 & 8 down pat but kept getting stuck on #7. Finally he told me he was going to bed, he was tired. He'd go over it tomorrow morning, he had recorded it on his ipod and was planning on listening to it on his walk to school, and he will recite it to his buddy at lunch. I thought, he'll do as well as he'll do and hopefully he'll learn something like this requires a lot of work!

And then...he came out of his room and gave me a hug and said, "Thank you for helping me, mom, my teachers were right." I said, "About what?" He said, "I'm lucky to have parents who care enough to spend all night helping me to study!" Then he trotted off to bed and I almost cried, lol.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 8:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Could I inquire as to what is the point of memorising the stanza's? Is it to help with public speaking or something? I just am not getting the point of that homework. Can't remember when I have ever needed to memorize for work. Just curious.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, no clue, Dipo, I've never gotten the point of having to memorize something and then recite it in front of a class (I don't like public speaking though so that might have had something to do with it.

Darren said tonight he didn't think he'd ever read the Raven. I said oh yes you did! We had the same assignment in freshman english as Caleb has now (though if I remember right, we had to do the whole thing.) Didn't matter what teacher you had, all the freshman recited The Raven. And the Gettysburg Address.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 6:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I seem to recall that oral composition included both the memorizing and the writing, and most importantly, the speaking. Of course that was high school, but... being able to stand up in front of a class and speak was an important thing to learn. And requiring someone to memorize and speak actually makes that exercise easier.

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
When I was in school we had to memorize Paul Revere's Ride (I can do it to this day and it sorta freaks my students out cuz I do it at breakneck speed), The Village Blacksmith, The Raven, and The Bells ("the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells"). Don't know why we learned them cuz Quaker schools aren't bit on learning by rote, but the damned things stick with you.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
So interesting, I don't remember having to memorize anything except the pledge of allegiance, LOL. ( and maybe the lords prayer, when did they stop prayers in school?)