How many of you have kids in school?

[abcdefz]

...it's my boss's kids' last day of school today; summer break begins.

Another friend's kids just had... not "graduation"... "continuation"? exercises..? Kind of like commencement for kindergarten/elementary school.

Anyway, I have zero idea what it's like for parents to 1) see their kids growing up, and 2) to suddenly have the gift/pain of having kids around all the time for three months before school starts again, etc.

But, anyway, if you have kids and they fall in these categories somewhere, congrats! It's a tough job, and best wishes.

[abcdefz]

That's very cool.

[BangkokB]

My stepson is in a classy school now $1,500 USD every 6 months. He's moved in with us since the free school stopped about two months ago. Once they're in the 6th grade you have to pay for kids to be further educated. I keep telling him to give school the finger and set his sights on being a rock star...Mom smashes that dream singlehandedly.

I'm a testament that kids aren't for everyone. I sent him out to get me cigarettes and they wouldn't sell them to him~ So I sent his mother

[abcdefz]

I'm a testament that kids aren't for everyone. I sent him out to get me cigarettes and they wouldn't sell them to him~ So I sent his mother




...so he came home with just the scotch? That sucks.

[BangkokB]

But forgot the Coke...No, not that kind

While I sit in my chair nodding(n)

[abcdefz]

Man. I remember when I was about ten years old or so... my mom used to send me to the grocery or drug store for cigarettes, and no one even blinked.

Of course, this was back in the days of cigarette vending machines, too...

[kaiser soze]

I'm in school and I'm someone's kid, is that close enough?

[abcdefz]

Sure -- let's get some perspective from the other side.

[BangkokB]

I remember when I was 15 and a cop shook me and a friend down for our cigarettets. He held firm as if it was a Clint Eastwood who blinks first showdown. I was saying "Hey Man, Just give'em the cigarettes. The cigarettes just give'em to him" My friend stuck to his guns

the cigarettes were more than likely smoked by the cop in that psychological warfare gone aray.

[bigblu89]

My little one is only a year and a half, and I'm already dreading the day when when she starts to go through that 10-12 year span (usually age 10-21 or so) when she won't want to hug me.

:mad:

:(

[abcdefz]

Doesn't have to be that way. She'll want the car keys eventually. :D

[BangkokB]

Push the Rock Star envelope

All kidding aside: I was telling Mint that she has a bang up job of a son and she said "Really, I don't know I always hung out with people alot older than me." So I quess we're raising him like he's a little man.

I've read before that the children stories ie Little Red Ridding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and Jason Stathom were stories that were told by families that were entertaining each other about the unbelievable to pass the time

[milleson]

My kids have been out of school since May.

Is it September yet?

[kaiser soze]

Sure -- let's get some perspective from the other side.

well, I didn't ask nor expect much for my first graduation and I'm on the fast track towards my second/third degree, sometimes I just want to die

[ms.peachy]

I just got a note from Mattie's nursery on Thursday that beginning next week, they are going to start moving her out of the infant's room (Bluebells) and into Toddler 1 (Sunflowers).

I'm having a hard time with the concept that she is not an "infant" any more :(




I'm aware this is only vaguely relevant to this thread, but dammit I'm a little weirded out that my baby is not such a baby anymore.

[Suavee-Bolo]

My little one is only a year and a half, and I'm already dreading the day when when she starts to go through that 10-12 year span (usually age 10-21 or so) when she won't want to hug me.

:mad:

:(


12yo. & a 13yo here.
The bright side of kids that age is that you can cram your musical tastes down their throats by taking them to their first Beatsie Boys concert.
That can be even better than a hug.

[abcdefz]

I just got a note from Mattie's nursery on Thursday that beginning next week, they are going to start moving her out of the infant's room (Bluebells) and into Toddler 1 (Sunflowers).

I'm having a hard time with the concept that she is not an "infant" any more :(




I'm aware this is only vaguely relevant to this thread, but dammit I'm a little weirded out that my baby is not such a baby anymore.



No -- that's fair game.

Today, Sunflowers, tomorrow -- moving her into her dorm room! :D