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In a message dated 7/7/2003 12:35:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:


> [Trivia quiz question: Who is being quoted with "I saw it on TV so it must
>
> be true" ?]

The son of the guy that said, "I read it in a book, so it must be true"?

~Kelly, waiting to be cyber-slapped <g>


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Bling Williams

Time for a whinge.
We seem to be stuck in the doldrums. Kids don't seem interested in anything apart from saying how bored they are. They never want to go out and see anything because its too hot and sticky, they never want to go to the library. Every day is the same, staying in, playing video games and bickering. We only know 1 home-educating family in the area so they don't have any friends too see.
Frankly, I'm depressed and fed up. If I see another over-scheduling HS Soccer Mom I think I'll go nuts.
Anyone else been through this? What did you do? And no, I can't drink or take Xanax as I'm pregnant!!

Shyrley


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Pam Hartley

Wading pools. Several if necessary, for you and the kids. Water spraying
toys. Heat sucks the energy and niceness out of me, so the first thing is to
get cool and go from there. :)

Lots of fluids. Lemonade. Ice Water. Iced Tea.

New video games (rentals to see what you all like before you buy). Will they
play board games? I have lots of favorites of those.

Naps.

New pets (mice or dwarf hamsters or finches or anything that is entertaining
to watch and feed).

Outings to air conditioned places that stir the souls of at least one of the
children. If I were trying to get Brit out of the house, I'd take her to a
pet shop to window shop, or find a pet fair, or take her to a display of
medieval swords (she's heavily armed these days, playing "Link" from Legend
of Zelda). I'd bribe Mikey into going with us by promising to take her the
next day to something fabulous to her.

Pam

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>From: Bling Williams <bobalinga@...>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Doldrums
>Date: Mon, Jul 7, 2003, 10:06 AM
>

>
> Time for a whinge.
> We seem to be stuck in the doldrums. Kids don't seem interested in anything
> apart from saying how bored they are. They never want to go out and see
> anything because its too hot and sticky, they never want to go to the
> library. Every day is the same, staying in, playing video games and
> bickering. We only know 1 home-educating family in the area so they don't
> have any friends too see.
> Frankly, I'm depressed and fed up. If I see another over-scheduling HS
> Soccer Mom I think I'll go nuts.
> Anyone else been through this? What did you do? And no, I can't drink or
> take Xanax as I'm pregnant!!
>
> Shyrley
>
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<<George W. Bush?
Chevy Chase?
My mom. >>

Excellent candidates, and it's possible each of them HAS said it.

<< The son of the guy that said, "I read it in a book, so it must be true"? >>

PERHAPS SO.

Garfield

Not President Garfield, the orange Garfield.

Sandra

Christine ONeal

We are stuck in the same thing. The weather is too damn hot so we are avoiding going anywhere. Whenever we do go anywhere ds ends up having a huge meltdown from the heat. So, we are staying inside as much as possible and watching videos or reading. As long as we don't go out in the heat, he stays in a good mood. We are doing our outside playing time at 7 or later in the evening. It seems to be mostly working out.

Christy

Bling Williams <bobalinga@...> wrote:

Time for a whinge.
We seem to be stuck in the doldrums. Kids don't seem interested in anything apart from saying how bored they are. They never want to go out and see anything because its too hot and sticky, they never want to go to the library. Every day is the same, staying in, playing video games and bickering. We only know 1 home-educating family in the area so they don't have any friends too see.
Frankly, I'm depressed and fed up. If I see another over-scheduling HS Soccer Mom I think I'll go nuts.
Anyone else been through this? What did you do? And no, I can't drink or take Xanax as I'm pregnant!!

Shyrley


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In a message dated 7/7/03 11:08:23 AM, bobalinga@... writes:

<< Every day is the same, staying in, playing video games and bickering. >>

Go out at night when it's cool and not crowded! DRIVE YOUR CAR, Shyrley,
you're not in England. You can stop driving when you get back to the U.K.

Take a ball to a park and throw it and chase it. Take a dog. Borrow a dog
that likes to chase balls. Buy cheap popsicles and eat them outside in the
dark far from your house. Play funny music. The new Weird Al CD is fun.

Sandra

Betsy

**They never want to go out and see anything because its too hot and
sticky, they never want to go to the library.**


Can you do any kind of middle of the night outings? Does the
temperature drop at all over night? (Morning people sometimes like to
go places at 5am in the summer, but that advice may be useless to you. <g>)

Your kids are older than mine I think. Can you leave them home and run
to the library and pick up a towering pile of stuff? Utter boredom
might cause them to look at some of it. Funny stuff might be the
ticket, maybe bitterly cynical funny stuff?

Invite more people from the list to come over and visit with you to
liven things up?

Have a film festival of extremely snowy movies? (I don't have a
favorite snowy movie, but my favorite "you'll never feel warm again"
book is H.M.S. Ulysses by Alistair MacLean, based on his naval
experiences on ships supplying northern Russian ports in winter. I've
never been so close to freezing to death just from reading.)

Good luck! My kid never wants to go most places either, but our weather
is more fortunate.

Betsy

Paula Sjogerman

on 7/7/03 4:37 PM, Betsy at ecsamhill@... wrote:

> Have a film festival of extremely snowy movies?


Fargo
Dr. Zhivago
Nanook of the North
Nightmare Before Christmas

coyote's corner

Same here. Brianna has had company so she's been busy. We live directly behind a library and that's a big help. Brianna has the role of narrator in the Hobbit.
We hope to get to the park tomorrow - but it depends on the weather.
Oh and she's sustained a concussion last week and I have a kidney stone. Other than that - all is good!
Janis
----- Original Message -----
From: Christine ONeal
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Doldrums


We are stuck in the same thing. The weather is too damn hot so we are avoiding going anywhere. Whenever we do go anywhere ds ends up having a huge meltdown from the heat. So, we are staying inside as much as possible and watching videos or reading. As long as we don't go out in the heat, he stays in a good mood. We are doing our outside playing time at 7 or later in the evening. It seems to be mostly working out.

Christy

Bling Williams <bobalinga@...> wrote:

Time for a whinge.
We seem to be stuck in the doldrums. Kids don't seem interested in anything apart from saying how bored they are. They never want to go out and see anything because its too hot and sticky, they never want to go to the library. Every day is the same, staying in, playing video games and bickering. We only know 1 home-educating family in the area so they don't have any friends too see.
Frankly, I'm depressed and fed up. If I see another over-scheduling HS Soccer Mom I think I'll go nuts.
Anyone else been through this? What did you do? And no, I can't drink or take Xanax as I'm pregnant!!

Shyrley


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Nancy Wooton

on 7/7/03 2:37 PM, Betsy at ecsamhill@... wrote:

> I don't have a
> favorite snowy movie, but my favorite "you'll never feel warm again"
> book is H.M.S. Ulysses by Alistair MacLean, based on his naval
> experiences on ships supplying northern Russian ports in winter. I've
> never been so close to freezing to death just from reading

The Little House on the Prairie book, "The Long Winter," is one of those.
You'll never complain about feeling cold again.

Nancy

Tia Leschke

>
> The Little House on the Prairie book, "The Long Winter," is one of those.
> You'll never complain about feeling cold again.

Or about being bored or having nothing good to eat.
<g>
Tia

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin
leschke@...

Bling Williams

Tia Leschke <leschke@...> wrote:

>
> The Little House on the Prairie book, "The Long Winter," is one of those.
> You'll never complain about feeling cold again.

Or about being bored or having nothing good to eat.
<g>
Tia


I do try that every now and then. Remind them that I grew up without a TV. There were no computers and we didn't have a car to go places like the beach until I was 23. I'd left home by then!

Heather then reminds me that I had much more freedom. I could spend all day out on my bike or playing in the woods cos there were hardly any cars and no peverts. She then berates me for moving to America where she cannot leave the neighbourhood - ours is a circle, a mile in Circumference. The neighbourhod then has one access road to a 8 lane highway that is gridlocked at all hours. She's taken to walking the dog round the circle but constantly points out that if we were back home she could go for miles :-(

Roll on moving day.....



Shyrley



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