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Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / March 2005Whatever you teach your kids will be used .....
Now I have been taking great efforts through the live of my children to teach them to express themselves properly. Maybe because of that I got presented with the following this morning. The situation was that DD was doing laundry. Now she has been doing that for years and only lately a little problem arose. Being that money is tight I like the wash machine only to be run when we got a full load. Now I don't know but maybe I don't realize that there is some law in 9yo girl life that one just has to wear a certain outfit on a specific day. Now this has caused occasionally the machine to be run with less than a full load - not a major problem but I am after every penny. So this morning I hear the machine going on and as to my recollection there was not enough laundry to fill said machine. So I call downstairs, "DD do we have enough clothes for the machine to be full" "Don't worry dad I put a considerable amount of laundry into the machine." "DD that is not what I asked - is the machine full?" "Dad I cannot answer that" "You what?" "I cannot answer that as I am currently not completely clear on what you would call full in this specific case." Now this sounded somewhat like a certain prez trying to explain that a BJ does not fall under the category of "sexual relations". So I had to say "Well I guess I come down and show you and then we can also discuss what it seems that you are full off." "Alright dad I go and see if I can find some more clothes to wash but I really got to wear ...." Free Spirit DD(8) DS(11) > Now I have been taking great efforts through the live of my children > to teach them to express themselves properly. Maybe because of that I > got presented with the following this morning. > So this morning I hear the machine going on and as to my recollection > there was not enough laundry to fill said machine. So I call > downstairs, (story snipped) > So I had to say "Well I guess I come down and show you and then we > can also discuss what it seems that you are full off." > > "Alright dad I go and see if I can find some more clothes to wash but > I really got to wear ...." > Free Spirit > DD(8) DS(11) ROFL!! Don't you love it! Our BIG family story goes back to when DD (now 32) was about 14-15 and asked her dad to take her to the mall. He said no. She looked at him with all seriousness and sincerity and said, "But, Dad, it's your Fatherly Duty." Duty. DH was still sputtering when we revived him.  Signature-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sweet Potato Follies added 2/24/05. "I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner, performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005. >> Now I have been taking great efforts through the live of my children >> to teach them to express themselves properly. Maybe because of that I [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >"But, Dad, it's your Fatherly Duty." Duty. DH was still sputtering >when we revived him. Mall stuff already started. That is another thing I can't quite understand. If I had my choice the less time I spend there the better. Even in my young years the only reason I went ther is to meet girls. Free Spirit DD(8) DS(11) > >ROFL!! Don't you love it! Our BIG family story goes back to when > >DD (now 32) was about 14-15 and asked her dad to take her to the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > better. Even in my young years the only reason I went ther is to meet > girls. You don't understand it because you don't carry the SHOPping gene. And my guess is that the girls are also going for the same reason you did -- to meet guys. Eight seems a little young. Or eleven. No, a LOT young. Signature-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Sweet Potato Follies added 2/24/05. "I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner, performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005. >> >ROFL!! Don't you love it! Our BIG family story goes back to when >> >DD (now 32) was about 14-15 and asked her dad to take her to the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >my guess is that the girls are also going for the same reason you did -- >to meet guys. Eight seems a little young. Or eleven. No, a LOT young. Well what can I say she just loves to go store to store look at clothes or stuff we could use to redo the house. Right now she is lobbying to repaint the house, rip out the carpet, sand and stain the floor etc. Luckely she is a good worker. Last year we redid the kitchen floor. I cut the lauan bords to size and she nailed them down and then glued down the linoleum tiles while I was solving a customers problem. So we will see how she does painting this year as she is going to get to do her room first. And then money permitting I might turn her loose on the rest of the house. Free Spirit DD(8) DS(11) >Now I have been taking great efforts through the live of my children to teach >them to express themselves properly. Maybe because of that I got presented with >the following this morning. Teach them how to do maths in binary. >>Now I have been taking great efforts through the live of my >>children to teach them to express themselves properly. >>Maybe because of that I got presented with the following >>this morning. > > Teach them how to do maths in binary. my dad did that with us. it was fun. too bad the twit algebra teacher ruined maths for me... he declared girls can't do algebra & failed me even though i did my work... and i knew what i was doing. i had already passed calculus. i gave up on school at that point. bunch of pissants. lee<not at all bitter that he ruined my life> :) I like the way it's called birth control... *Birth* control... man, that'd be weird... Taking pills to stop the baby coming out. > my dad did that with us. it was fun. > too bad the twit algebra teacher ruined maths for me... he [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > pissants. > lee<not at all bitter that he ruined my life> I find your story quite amazing on a few counts. I think for a teacher to have that attitude is apalling. What a sexist pig! He was also hideously unfair failing you if your grades were not failing grades. Weren't your parents concerned at how your marks weren't reflecting your work? I can understand that this would have completely knocked the wind out of you at the time. Pity there wasn't more support for you and that the teacher wasn't challenged. I wonder how many other kids he did it to over the years? He should have had his arse kicked. Liz >> my dad did that with us. it was fun. >> too bad the twit algebra teacher ruined maths for me... he [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > how many other kids he did it to over the years? He should > have had his arse kicked. it was late 60s. my parents were very supportive of me, but for some reason the school would not budge on getting me out of this teachers class. the first 2.5 months i did fine, but that teacher was drafted & the twit was placed as a sub. the school kept coming up with excuses why they couldn't move me. i failed for the year with a D, meaning i had to retake algebra I... they gave me the same teacher, with the same results. they tried to make me retake it *again* with the same teacher, but i refused & i think my parents threatened legal action at that point, so they grudgingly allowed me to take geometry (which i got As in) & since i passed geometry, i was able to take algebraII... which was right after lunch & in an overheated room so i invariably fell asleep. somehow, despite sleeping through the class (& the teacher *knew* i was asleep. he told people not to wake me), i managed to get good grades... but the school still refused to admit that twit teacher was the problem, not me. and because entrance to pre-med required a second year of biology, which i couldn't take until after chemisty, which i couldn't take until i took algebraII, which i couldn't take until my senior year because of the twit... no pre-med, no veterinary school. lee >> my dad did that with us. it was fun. >> too bad the twit algebra teacher ruined maths for me... he [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Liz Whoa Tiger! 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