Re: [AlwaysLearning] Digest Number 277
[email protected]
In a message dated 3/20/02 11:09:14 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< Marty, when he was
six and seven, would shoot straight up like a prairie-dog lookout and yell
"SCHOOL KIDS!" and start gathering up our play equipment like we had to be
OUT of there before the last of them touched the grass. It was partly a
joke, but it had happened several times that our park sessions were ruined
by
other kids coming up, being stingy with the slides, taking our kids' buckets
and shovels and balls away from them, just getting on their bikes and
riding,
etc. The difference in behavior was notable.
center and a lot of the kids hang out in an after school program.....we like
to leave when they come.
Although last week it was a MOM (of preschoolers) that was the nightmare.
She first said "Uh, uh, uh you sit DOWN" to my daughter when she tried to go
down the slide on her feet.
Then she pointedly told us that "THAT is an accident waiting to happen"
referring to our children climbing a tree!!!
We politely told her that they climb the tree every week ( a huge old oak
with very large sprawling, SAFE branches btw) and left it at that.
She proceeded to go "tattle" on us inside the community center because we did
not remove our children from the tree....can you believe that?
The nerve.
Apparently the people running the center weren't too worried because nobody
came out to check on us, and she left shortly thereafter.
My son said he should have run up to her car and said "Mam, please don't get
into that CAR!! It's an accident waiting to happen"....LOL
Alice thought of a good one (after the fact of course ) too....."Oh, you are
SO right! We should ban all trees in this park!!"
I would've loved to see the look on her face...what a busybody!
School kids or school parents.....one can be just as annoying as the other.
In all fairness though, a couple of our favorite friends are ps families.
They're so cool and open minded about many things, I often scratch my head
and wonder why they don't get the homeschooling thing??!!
Ren
[email protected] writes:
<< Marty, when he was
six and seven, would shoot straight up like a prairie-dog lookout and yell
"SCHOOL KIDS!" and start gathering up our play equipment like we had to be
OUT of there before the last of them touched the grass. It was partly a
joke, but it had happened several times that our park sessions were ruined
by
other kids coming up, being stingy with the slides, taking our kids' buckets
and shovels and balls away from them, just getting on their bikes and
riding,
etc. The difference in behavior was notable.
>>Oh, this sounds SO like our park days. We meet at a park next to a community
center and a lot of the kids hang out in an after school program.....we like
to leave when they come.
Although last week it was a MOM (of preschoolers) that was the nightmare.
She first said "Uh, uh, uh you sit DOWN" to my daughter when she tried to go
down the slide on her feet.
Then she pointedly told us that "THAT is an accident waiting to happen"
referring to our children climbing a tree!!!
We politely told her that they climb the tree every week ( a huge old oak
with very large sprawling, SAFE branches btw) and left it at that.
She proceeded to go "tattle" on us inside the community center because we did
not remove our children from the tree....can you believe that?
The nerve.
Apparently the people running the center weren't too worried because nobody
came out to check on us, and she left shortly thereafter.
My son said he should have run up to her car and said "Mam, please don't get
into that CAR!! It's an accident waiting to happen"....LOL
Alice thought of a good one (after the fact of course ) too....."Oh, you are
SO right! We should ban all trees in this park!!"
I would've loved to see the look on her face...what a busybody!
School kids or school parents.....one can be just as annoying as the other.
In all fairness though, a couple of our favorite friends are ps families.
They're so cool and open minded about many things, I often scratch my head
and wonder why they don't get the homeschooling thing??!!
Ren
Karin
>My son said he should have run up to her car and said "Mam, please don't getROTFLMAO!! That is really funny Ren. I wish your son could have really said it to her, just so you could see her expression.
>into that CAR!! It's an accident waiting to happen"....LOL >>>
Thats a good one.
Karin
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moonmeghan
<<<<> My son said he should have run up to her car and said
"Mam, please don't get
Meghan
"Mam, please don't get
> into that CAR!! It's an accident waiting to happen"....LOLLOL!! What a great comeback. I wish he had said it to her.
> Ren>>>>
Meghan