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Post by steph08 on Apr 1, 2021 16:35:44 GMT -5
Let them ride the bus for a few weeks. Worked for my kids. Great idea...private school, no bus. After the dust cleared, I did tell them that they really hurt my feelings when they do that. They are both good kids so apologized, and I expect to get at least a few better days out of it. Learned thru bits and pieces that I'm likely catching the brunt of bad days when they have issues with their friends at school. I said I'd much rather get straight to talking about that than the crappy behavior. DD1 was a bear to us for at least a week or more back at the beginning of 2021. Finally, she wrote in a notebook that she thought her friend liked a different friend better than her. That prompted a conversation about how her friend didn't sit next to her at lunch for two or three days. If she had just told us what was bothering her, it would have been so much easier! So I definitely feel your pain!
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Post by tcu2003 on Apr 4, 2021 20:27:56 GMT -5
So so excited - we just got an email tonight (super shocked they sent it on Easter Sunday evenings) that M was selected to be in the Spanish immersion program at her elementary school when she starts Kindergarten in August. We signed her up for the lottery, but weren’t sure she’d get in. This is only the second year, and it’s only at 2 schools in our district. Half of the spots are for kids in the school’s boundary, and half for kids in the district but out of that school’s boundary, so there were about 25 spots available for kids in our school’s boundary. And equally awesome - our next door neighbor got in as well (and his mom is a middle school Spanish teacher, so yay for having someone who can help them).
Guess this means my baby is really going to kindergarten this year. ☺️
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Post by tcu2003 on Apr 4, 2021 21:18:58 GMT -5
Also, in petty complaints....my MIL always gives each grandchild an Easter basket with a chocolate bunny and maybe 1-2 other candy items. This year she included an Easter pic from a previous Easter of each kiddo with their name and name’s meaning on the back. Apparently the meaning of M’s name is without good fortune or unlucky. [side note - it never crossed my mind to even look at this when we named her]
M is 4-1/2 and can’t read, so I’m making the card disappear, but really?! So not something I want her to ever associate with her name. I wouldn’t have been bothered at all if she’d just not done this on M’s picture card.
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Post by raeoflyte on Apr 5, 2021 8:41:12 GMT -5
Also, in petty complaints....my MIL always gives each grandchild an Easter basket with a chocolate bunny and maybe 1-2 other candy items. This year she included an Easter pic from a previous Easter of each kiddo with their name and name’s meaning on the back. Apparently the meaning of M’s name is without good fortune or unlucky. [side note - it never crossed my mind to even look at this when we named her] M is 4-1/2 and can’t read, so I’m making the card disappear, but really?! So not something I want her to ever associate with her name. I wouldn’t have been bothered at all if she’d just not done this on M’s picture card. That's a valid complaint. Super weird that mil included that. If she insisted on including something she could have said it means something like 'make your own luck/fortune'. The original neaning will be funny when she's grown and already successful, but theres just no reason to introduce that idea as a kid.
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Post by azucena on Apr 5, 2021 8:43:11 GMT -5
TCU - you'll have to keep us posted on the Spanish immersion. What a great opportunity. My kids get Spanish twice a week at our school, but it's been kinda terrible for the past few years as it was taught by a teacher that should have retired long ago. She finally did retire during Covid, so now we have a new one who is actually a 7th grade parent dusting off her teaching degree after following her missionary husband around for a couple of decades. And, she's a native speaker with a great personality. DD12 just had her first actual quiz this past week and had to study and was lost from her notes. So, I dusted off my 20 yr old spanish second major and quizzed a group of her friends over zoom over adjective and ser/estar. Fun times.
What a weird and unnecessarily mean thing for your MIL to do.
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Post by raeoflyte on Apr 5, 2021 9:39:10 GMT -5
Ds has rediscovered the trampoline and is dragging dd with him. I was ready to take it down since they wouldnt even jump on it with friends.
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Post by raeoflyte on Apr 6, 2021 9:50:12 GMT -5
Ds is doing cmas testing at the school this week. We had to be up, dressed, fed and brush teeth all before 8am. Insanity!
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 6, 2021 15:09:58 GMT -5
So, my engineering major kid just applied for a TA position...in Biology. On the one hand, I'm thrilled he's taking the reins and shooting for a position that will look better on his resume than working in the dining hall. On the other hand I'm thinking "please don't change your major to Biology" (I'm a bio major, so that's where this is coming from )
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 6, 2021 16:02:43 GMT -5
minnesotapaintlady does that get him some sort of reduced tuition if he gets the TA position or is it $$?
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 6, 2021 16:11:20 GMT -5
I think it's just a job. He's taking a Biology class this semester and really enjoys it and the TA for the class has been encouraging the students to apply because they're short-handed. I'm not sure what it all entails but the TA told him part of it is just paid time to study because you have to have available "office hours" and nobody ever shows up. My son said this TA is also an engineering major, so I guess it's not totally strange to TA outside of your area. I think he'd have to teach the labs...or facilitate them or something. Very foreign to me because my small college didn't really have TAs.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 6, 2021 16:18:35 GMT -5
We didn't have TA's at my undergrad school either so I have never experienced having a TA.
I know my nephew's have proctored and graded exams at TAs but they were in graduate school. I don't think any of them were TA's or RA's as an undergrad.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Apr 6, 2021 16:28:09 GMT -5
From what I can tell all the labs are run by TAs and they're undergrads which is just bizarre. There will be a dozen or more lab sections for each lecture class and each one will have a different TA. eta: This may just be the way it goes for the freshman level lab classes and grad students are used for upper division.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 6, 2021 17:03:30 GMT -5
I have no regrets about going to a small college where I got to know each professor and never had difficulty meeting with one.
In grad school, we would be lined up at the door and could still not see the professor.
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Post by saveinla on Apr 6, 2021 17:13:19 GMT -5
I think it's just a job. He's taking a Biology class this semester and really enjoys it and the TA for the class has been encouraging the students to apply because they're short-handed. I'm not sure what it all entails but the TA told him part of it is just paid time to study because you have to have available "office hours" and nobody ever shows up. My son said this TA is also an engineering major, so I guess it's not totally strange to TA outside of your area. I think he'd have to teach the labs...or facilitate them or something. Very foreign to me because my small college didn't really have TAs. He may have to set up the labs before the class starts and clean up after. Its an easy job and pays a small amount but useful to get to know people.
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Post by alabamagal on Apr 7, 2021 4:57:21 GMT -5
I think it's just a job. He's taking a Biology class this semester and really enjoys it and the TA for the class has been encouraging the students to apply because they're short-handed. I'm not sure what it all entails but the TA told him part of it is just paid time to study because you have to have available "office hours" and nobody ever shows up. My son said this TA is also an engineering major, so I guess it's not totally strange to TA outside of your area. I think he'd have to teach the labs...or facilitate them or something. Very foreign to me because my small college didn't really have TAs. Any job is a good job! You learn so many job skills in any job. When I was in college I worked in the Biology department (was pre-med bio major at the time before transferring to engineering school). Then I worked in Geophysical sciences department. Best thing I learned there was word processing on early PCs as I was helping in prep for scientific journal. Also learned a bit about earthquakes. My YDS worked in college doing transcription for a financial planner. He later told me that it really helped him speed up his typing skills. So when he got a job as real estate appraiser, 90% of his job is writing reports and he gets paid by the report, so faster typing equals more reports and more money. He also gained insight on how people with lots of money live.
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Post by tcu2003 on Apr 12, 2021 11:06:35 GMT -5
My current (very minor) pet peeve - children’s audio picture books that don’t have a beep or other tone to indicate when to turn the page. M is loving them in the car, but doesn’t know when to turn the page and I’m driving so I can’t see to tell her when to turn the page. 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Also minor, but annoying - C’s class is doing the Flat Stanley project this year where each kid made a Flat Kid of themselves, wrote a letter and sent it to someone who is supposed to take pictures and send back pics of the Flat Child’s adventures. C wanted to send it to DH’s uncle in Colorado - we got his okay (and texted him what was needed before he agreed), but found out from C that his never got sent back. Apparently uncle lost it, then found it again last week but figured it was too late and isn’t sure he still has it. I feel badly for C - he was really excited about this and he’s the only kid who didn’t have his sent back. And we totally could have easily sent it to someone else instead or even sent another one to him to we had known. 😞
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 12, 2021 14:33:29 GMT -5
Also minor, but annoying - C’s class is doing the Flat Stanley project this year where each kid made a Flat Kid of themselves, wrote a letter and sent it to someone who is supposed to take pictures and send back pics of the Flat Child’s adventures. C wanted to send it to DH’s uncle in Colorado - we got his okay (and texted him what was needed before he agreed), but found out from C that his never got sent back. Apparently uncle lost it, then found it again last week but figured it was too late and isn’t sure he still has it. I feel badly for C - he was really excited about this and he’s the only kid who didn’t have his sent back. And we totally could have easily sent it to someone else instead or even sent another one to him to we had known. 😞 I've done Flat Stanley twice for kids. Even I know how important that is to kids.
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Post by susana1954 on Apr 13, 2021 17:43:44 GMT -5
I wouldn't even know if my kids didn't have an assignment done. No reason why I'd need to know. It's up to them to figure it out. Actually, you aren't allowed to know unless the Buckeley Amendment was repealed. I was an adjunct in the 1980s, and you weren't allowed to talk to parents about their students' grades, assignments, etc. Even though parents paid the tuition, etc., only the students got copies of their grades.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Apr 13, 2021 17:58:00 GMT -5
I wouldn't even know if my kids didn't have an assignment done. No reason why I'd need to know. It's up to them to figure it out. Actually, you aren't allowed to know unless the Buckeley Amendment was repealed. I was an adjunct in the 1980s, and you weren't allowed to talk to parents about their students' grades, assignments, etc. Even though parents paid the tuition, etc., only the students got copies of their grades. Wish the same could have been done for the long-distance phone bills I incurred way back in the day. Only saving grace for the first one I was home for is I was in the hospital so my dad couldn't kill me.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 13, 2021 19:15:38 GMT -5
When I was in college, I paid for all of it and my grades, etc. were sent to my parents. I was independent of my parents for student loan purposes. I was on my own so I never understood why they got my grades and bills, etc.
When I went to Colorado to grad school, everything came to me. That was in 1975-76.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Apr 13, 2021 19:33:56 GMT -5
When I was in college, I paid for all of it and my grades, etc. were sent to my parents. I was independent of my parents for student loan purposes. I was on my own so I never understood why they got my grades and bills, etc. When I went to Colorado to grad school, everything came to me. That was in 1975-76. Should I be a really big wise ass and mention how old I was in 75-76?
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Post by taz157 on Apr 13, 2021 19:51:13 GMT -5
When I was in college, I paid for all of it and my grades, etc. were sent to my parents. I was independent of my parents for student loan purposes. I was on my own so I never understood why they got my grades and bills, etc. When I went to Colorado to grad school, everything came to me. That was in 1975-76. Should I be a really big wise ass and mention how old I was in 75-76? I guess I shouldn't mention that I wasn't even born in 1975 or 1976...
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 13, 2021 19:55:13 GMT -5
What can I say? I'm old.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Apr 13, 2021 20:10:11 GMT -5
Should I be a really big wise ass and mention how old I was in 75-76? I guess I shouldn't mention that I wasn't even born in 1975 or 1976... Shush you. I was born. I was only 2-3.
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Post by taz157 on Apr 13, 2021 20:20:27 GMT -5
I guess I shouldn't mention that I wasn't even born in 1975 or 1976... Shush you. I was born. I was only 2-3. FWIW, my DH was 1-2 then.
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Post by Works4me on Apr 14, 2021 3:07:40 GMT -5
I guess I shouldn't mention that I wasn't even born in 1975 or 1976... Shush you. I was born. I was only 2-3. I can't understand how I could have been 13 and 14 back then because I'm only 39 now! And he for that, I was 29 for quite some time. Eventually, I hope to be 49 and maybe even 59 some day. After that I'll be dead so none of it will matter, although I wonder what birth year to put in my obituary.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 14, 2021 7:21:59 GMT -5
I am exhausted. We're back tracking on the sleeping in their own beds/room. Gwen has been getting up at 1 am claiming she can't sleep. I feel bad because I got frustrated last night because she showed up in our bedroom and started flopping around leaving me awake at 3 am. I finally told her go in the living room and watch TV or something. Guess I hurt her feelings according to DH. Then Abby showed up sometime in the night and I almost rolled over onto her. So between that and work drama I am rather cranky today.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 14, 2021 8:11:55 GMT -5
I guess I shouldn't mention that I wasn't even born in 1975 or 1976... Shush you. I was born. I was only 2-3. So you were not even thinking about college?
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Post by tcu2003 on Apr 14, 2021 8:19:33 GMT -5
Hugs, drama. Hoping you all get some good sleep tonight!
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Post by raeoflyte on Apr 14, 2021 9:29:28 GMT -5
C loves my trouser socks. He borrowed a pair because his riding boots are really too small, but it was either squeeze into them or cancel the lesson (new ones are coming). He's claimed all of mine and is wearing them today with shorts and crocs! Its a whopping 35 degrees outside, and he has to go to the school for testing. Why?!?
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