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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (67206)	12/18/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: MSB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You can be glad (if you've never raised a hand against your child), that your child was not like me when I was younger. Otherwise, you would have had to put up with a lot of "make me" and "NO! I'm not going to!!". Time outs, essay writing, and other things you would have tried with a child like I was would have been a joke. I just wouldn't do it. (Incidentally, I had a teacher who was really a nice person when I was in the fifth grade, but I started a rebelious period at that time, and made her teaching life a real challenge that year. Why? First I tested, then I pushed. Why? To see just how far I could get away with it. A trip to the principal's office and a couple of good 'ol fashion fanny whacks would have put a stop to it in a hurry, but since my dad was a teacher, I suspect doing so wasn't in the cards for me. Instead, my parents took me to a child psychologist. I played the game.) --------------------------------------------- No, we don't agree on much when it comes to issues which is why most of the time I'll try to stay away from such things. The general topics of chit-chat are far more enjoyable to me, personally. If one person has a problem with another, I most generally try to stay out of it. If however I feel someone is being unfairly cast in an underdog position (depending on my mood), I'll join in the minority side and start slinging mud (provided of course I have a favorable opinion towards them). I get this impression, perhaps mistakenly, that Edwarda is being taken to task increasingly for matters of a personal nature. I hope what I'm sensing is merely a mis-impression because I believe Edwarda is a whole lot more like many than unlike them. She cuts a lot of slack. I hope others will do the same for her. Gotta go. As it so happens, SJ and I are going to Branson this evening. I need to get on the phone and make a dinner reservation. I got what I wanted for Christmas this year (should have...I paid for it). New work boots (I wore the others for about a year with the sides blown out), a new lamp for the desk, and 2 yards of topsoil and a yard of mushroom compost for the garden. Got your shopping done? What are you buying this year? (Subjects I'd prefer to pick up later).