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

To: Rambi who wrote (24820)	9/5/1998 7:36:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, Penni, I think the diapers, Crisco, and spatula stuff is some sort of eroticized big baby rubber fantasy that Thomas has. I can see a grown woman lying on her back with her legs up in the air, and Thomas doing his thing with all that paraphenalia, but really that vision is about as graphic and obscene as what we all have discovered recently about Billy and Monica, and since I consider that pretty bad, I don't want to actively participate in such titillation. (Now, where did I leave my cucumber?) Actually, I was not in that private chat room when he was getting off on it, obviously, or at least I have blocked such naughty thoughts from my conscious mind and remember absolutely nothing. I do hope the lady of the internet moment was having as much fun as he was, though!! Having caused pain in my marriage as the result of my internet addiction, and totally losing my mind at the advanced age of forty-seven, when I really should have known better, I don't really have very many answers. I can feel smug and superior only because I was quite a bit quicker to apologize than the president, who I suspect is still not very sorry. Drudge has an interesting report today--there is a mole deep in the White House, a highly placed witness who has shared everything with investigators. It sounds like Starr is pretty busy deposing people who wish to remain private!! Clinton needs to resign THIS WEEK, in my opinion, so the nation can start to heal. drudgereport.com You know what, Penni? When I think back on it, I remember a lot of stories about parents who were so desperate for their children's long-term educational goals that they couldn't see the forest for the trees, so to speak. When we were in that frantic scramble to get Briana in a more suitable school last week, my husband had to take a day off work and get her transcript from the school she attended from kindergarten through the eighth grade. There is a new principal there this year, and as he was helping my husband, he remarked that his child was now a senior at that horrible prison high school we were leaving. He said his child was miserable there, and he really regretted not taking him out the first year. What are parents thinking of, especially educators who should certainly know better? Then I remembered that at my daughter's old school, which always has a thousand applicants for twenty-four places in the kindergarten, there used to be just a horrible, abusive first grade teacher, close to retirement. She has finally retired now, and I know that the tenure laws make it hard to get rid of bad teachers, but children were having nightmares and screaming fits in the morning because they didn't want to go to school (my daughter got lucky and was not in her class). My point here is that the school overall was so desirable that some parents, including my daughter's friends' mothers who are teachers themselves and should certainly know better, put their children IN THERAPY for that year of the horrible first grade so they could survive and stay at the same school. I thought that was a bizarre educational strategy then, and now it still seems strange. Like you, I believe that it is important to deal with school issues as they come up, at the time your children are adversely affected. There is no school so "right" that putting your children through hell for a long-term educational objective is justifiable. What it really says, also, is how desperate we are in America just to find good schools. I guess I know all the reasons why we got this way, in terms of children not being prioritized in this society, but an additional point is what do we really gain from being so competitive that our brightest children may develop well academically, but in pressure cooker environments that do not honor their job of growing up healthy and well balanced at the same time?