Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: was: encouraging a child to stick with it, now musical personality
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In a message dated 11/17/02 9:47:01 AM, ecsamhill@... writes:
<< I think it would be interesting to study this question by putting
location detectors on parents and kids and tracking the distance between
them throughout the day and night. Then the statistics could be
adjusted for age of kids and size of house. >>
Our house is 3600 square feet. Holly is sitting one foot from me.
Last night I was hard asleep. TOTALLY asleep. Peacefully asleep. And when
I'm asleep, I don't have a broken leg.
Holly woke me up saying, "Can I practice my fiddle now?"
"Does it have to be in here?"
"You SAID I could!"
Ah. Did I mention it was 10:30?
I said "Can't you do it upstairs, or in the library, or in Keith's room?"
"Dad's asleep."
"I WAS ASLEEP TOO!!!"
"But you just now SAID I could!"
"Last I remember you and Keith were watching Music Man and I was asleep."
"Just fifteen minutes ago I said I wanted to check my e-mail and then
practice, and you said okay."
"Well I must have talked in my sleep!"
Yelling and crying.
Finally I was too awake to sleep again, and she was too upset to want to
practice. But I was trying to go back to sleep. And then she said "Is it
okay if I watch Saturday Night Live in here?"
She has a television in her room. We had just had a screaming fight about my
need to sleep.
I said okay. Because I felt so bad about yelling at her. And I fell asleep
again.
Is that closeness? In a location-tester way, absolutely! <bwg>
And she WANTED to be where I was.
I just wanted to be where my broken leg wasn't, which is really asleep.
Sandra
<< I think it would be interesting to study this question by putting
location detectors on parents and kids and tracking the distance between
them throughout the day and night. Then the statistics could be
adjusted for age of kids and size of house. >>
Our house is 3600 square feet. Holly is sitting one foot from me.
Last night I was hard asleep. TOTALLY asleep. Peacefully asleep. And when
I'm asleep, I don't have a broken leg.
Holly woke me up saying, "Can I practice my fiddle now?"
"Does it have to be in here?"
"You SAID I could!"
Ah. Did I mention it was 10:30?
I said "Can't you do it upstairs, or in the library, or in Keith's room?"
"Dad's asleep."
"I WAS ASLEEP TOO!!!"
"But you just now SAID I could!"
"Last I remember you and Keith were watching Music Man and I was asleep."
"Just fifteen minutes ago I said I wanted to check my e-mail and then
practice, and you said okay."
"Well I must have talked in my sleep!"
Yelling and crying.
Finally I was too awake to sleep again, and she was too upset to want to
practice. But I was trying to go back to sleep. And then she said "Is it
okay if I watch Saturday Night Live in here?"
She has a television in her room. We had just had a screaming fight about my
need to sleep.
I said okay. Because I felt so bad about yelling at her. And I fell asleep
again.
Is that closeness? In a location-tester way, absolutely! <bwg>
And she WANTED to be where I was.
I just wanted to be where my broken leg wasn't, which is really asleep.
Sandra
Kelli Traaseth
Yes,,,we have had nights like that, we just built and the house is about that size , we are now finding out that you really don't need several bedrooms--we all end up sleeping together, we don't need several bathrooms--they all like the master bath. And as far as the basement playroom..its much more fun to dance and sing where I am..,
I think we need to downsize,,,,,maybe we'll like it when the kids are teenagers, or the kids will like it anyway.
Kelli
SandraDodd@... wrote:
In a message dated 11/17/02 9:47:01 AM, ecsamhill@... writes:
<< I think it would be interesting to study this question by putting
location detectors on parents and kids and tracking the distance between
them throughout the day and night. Then the statistics could be
adjusted for age of kids and size of house. >>
Our house is 3600 square feet. Holly is sitting one foot from me.
Last night I was hard asleep. TOTALLY asleep. Peacefully asleep. And when
I'm asleep, I don't have a broken leg.
Holly woke me up saying, "Can I practice my fiddle now?"
"Does it have to be in here?"
"You SAID I could!"
Ah. Did I mention it was 10:30?
I said "Can't you do it upstairs, or in the library, or in Keith's room?"
"Dad's asleep."
"I WAS ASLEEP TOO!!!"
"But you just now SAID I could!"
"Last I remember you and Keith were watching Music Man and I was asleep."
"Just fifteen minutes ago I said I wanted to check my e-mail and then
practice, and you said okay."
"Well I must have talked in my sleep!"
Yelling and crying.
Finally I was too awake to sleep again, and she was too upset to want to
practice. But I was trying to go back to sleep. And then she said "Is it
okay if I watch Saturday Night Live in here?"
She has a television in her room. We had just had a screaming fight about my
need to sleep.
I said okay. Because I felt so bad about yelling at her. And I fell asleep
again.
Is that closeness? In a location-tester way, absolutely! <bwg>
And she WANTED to be where I was.
I just wanted to be where my broken leg wasn't, which is really asleep.
Sandra
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I think we need to downsize,,,,,maybe we'll like it when the kids are teenagers, or the kids will like it anyway.
Kelli
SandraDodd@... wrote:
In a message dated 11/17/02 9:47:01 AM, ecsamhill@... writes:
<< I think it would be interesting to study this question by putting
location detectors on parents and kids and tracking the distance between
them throughout the day and night. Then the statistics could be
adjusted for age of kids and size of house. >>
Our house is 3600 square feet. Holly is sitting one foot from me.
Last night I was hard asleep. TOTALLY asleep. Peacefully asleep. And when
I'm asleep, I don't have a broken leg.
Holly woke me up saying, "Can I practice my fiddle now?"
"Does it have to be in here?"
"You SAID I could!"
Ah. Did I mention it was 10:30?
I said "Can't you do it upstairs, or in the library, or in Keith's room?"
"Dad's asleep."
"I WAS ASLEEP TOO!!!"
"But you just now SAID I could!"
"Last I remember you and Keith were watching Music Man and I was asleep."
"Just fifteen minutes ago I said I wanted to check my e-mail and then
practice, and you said okay."
"Well I must have talked in my sleep!"
Yelling and crying.
Finally I was too awake to sleep again, and she was too upset to want to
practice. But I was trying to go back to sleep. And then she said "Is it
okay if I watch Saturday Night Live in here?"
She has a television in her room. We had just had a screaming fight about my
need to sleep.
I said okay. Because I felt so bad about yelling at her. And I fell asleep
again.
Is that closeness? In a location-tester way, absolutely! <bwg>
And she WANTED to be where I was.
I just wanted to be where my broken leg wasn't, which is really asleep.
Sandra
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