Confessions of one sahm
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Confessions of one sahm
| Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm |
I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my
| Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm |
I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my
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I am guessing that a child who hasn't learned despite being told about a dozen times is not an auditory learner either.
This reminds me of times when I have been around parents who have youngish children -- toddler age -- and you well hear the parent saying, in an increasingly exasperated tone, "Billy! Get off that swing! It's time to come home! Right now! I'm gonna count to three and you'd better be over here! One-two-- are you listening to me?"
Nah lady, he's not. Go stop the swing and get the kid already.
Oh, that reminds me. Last night we were at an event where they showed a documentary about the Battle of Crete. Patrick Leigh Fermor, a legendary British operative on the island, was interviewed in the film. At one point, he organized and executed a plot to kidnap the German commander, a Genereal Kreipe. So, for weeks Fermor traveled trough the mountains with the general as his prisoner, guarded and accompanied by rotating bands of Cretan guerillas.
One particularly beautiful dawn high in the mountain, Fermor awoke to the sound of General Kreipe quietly reciting a snippet of a Horace ode. Fermor continued the ode, their eyes met and he commented that it was as if he and the German had once drunk from the same fountain and for a brief moment the war faded away.
i'm not sure.
i don't have a problem assisting my kid with
Oh for the days when, after the Battle of Sind, a British political cartoon could show the general holding up a trophy that said "peccavi"....and evidently the educated public understood it.
Oh, I wouldn't be "judging" if I happened to overhear. Usually when we are out we are talking among ourselves, not looking over at the other table trying to second guess the other patrons. But if I were close enough to overhear, I would probably assume, though, that there was something amiss such as the child had a sprained thumb; and if it were clear that that were not the case, I would be polite enough to cover my amazement until we were in the car.
Seriously, don't your older kids go places without you? To spend the night with a friend, or on a girl scout campout or something? It was about the ages of 10-11 my kids started going to sleepaway camps and other places where they were kind of expected to be able to feed themselves.
why no clue....is this a game?
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