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Spidey 
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Posted on: Apr. 02 2004,10:10 am |
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Yesterday while walking around the lake ... I was on Lakeview Blvd (I think that's the name of the road) and a school bus was coming around the corner from behind me. If you know the road I'm talking about it's very wide ... and I was all the way over to the curb. When the bus went by it was so close to me ... if I would have been two feet further along it would have hit me. He/She had to swerve the bus back into the road after passing me. I was really scared  and then mad 
I got the bus number.
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Newbie
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Posted on: Apr. 02 2004,10:29 am |
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The really scary thing is these people drive our children around. My daughter rode the bus to school until one day the driver forgot to drop her off. Scared the crap out of me. I had to call the company they radioed(sp) the driver. She got home an hour late. Another day (on a field trip) she tripped and fell in the aisle by the driver and kids walked right over/on her. There were shoe prints on her shirt and the driver or teacher didn't stop them. She was in kindergarten at the time. She is in 4th now and still talks about it.
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minnow
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Posted on: Apr. 02 2004,3:37 pm |
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LOL 
I'm sorry, it's just that we all have experiences like this as a child that stay with us for a very long time...if not forever. 
I'd like to see her high school boyfriend buy her a pair of jeans with footprints all over the butt....LOL
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Truth
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Posted on: Apr. 03 2004,4:08 pm |
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We all go through rough times as kids, it's natural and it is what builds character. Just be a strong parent and everything will work out. Teach your children to be forgiving and strong by showing them the stressing event has passed and everyone is OK.
Buck up little camper, we'll beat that slope together.
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Clovis
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Posted on: Apr. 15 2004,10:01 pm |
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| Quote | | Another day (on a field trip) she tripped and fell in the aisle by the driver and kids walked right over/on her. There were shoe prints on her shirt and the driver or teacher didn't stop them. |
| Quote | | We all go through rough times as kids, it's natural and it is what builds character. Just be a strong parent and everything will work out. Teach your children to be forgiving and strong by showing them the stressing event has passed and everyone is OK. |
Eeeeeesh. Okay, yes, we should all strive to be more forgiving, Truth... but as a teacher, I can tell you that if I had let that happen on a field trip, I would have been in it pretty deep on the way back. I'd tend to agree with Newbie's anger here.
As for rough times being character-building activities... to a point, yes. The fact that I moved multiple, multiple times growing up was character-building (though I couldn't really appreciate it at the time). Not fitting in during middle school and having to forge new friendships and make my own decisions - yes, character-building. However - having teachers that belittled me behind my back to my entire class and tell them that they had to treat me as a special case was NOT character-building. It was humiliating. Having teachers who allowed students to enter the room and make fun of me uninterrupted before an entire classroom full of choir students - also NOT character-building. I don't know that I'll ever fully forgive those teachers, even though the "stressing event" has passed.
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Newbie
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Posted on: Apr. 15 2004,11:04 pm |
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Thank you Clovis 
My daughter is bullied daily because she doesn't follow the "in crowd". She sticks to the values and morals we teach her. I would say she has Great character for a 10 yr old!
Especially with moral degradation and declining value system in today's youth. Peer pressure in grade school now is what it was when I was in 8th grade. At least in my daughters school. 
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kid dyn-o-mite
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Posted on: Apr. 16 2004,12:59 am |
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That's pure crap. Once her hormones start flowing it'll be all beer and parties, yet you'll still believe your little angel is perfect. What a joke. Please explain how your morals are superior to mine, how your values are better than mine?
Right from the start I can see that you're far more biased and judgemental than myself. That makes me truly moral doesn't it?
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Mamma
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Posted on: Apr. 16 2004,7:22 am |
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How could you of all people have the nerve to tell someone they are more biased or judgemental than you are? Your mother messed up somewhere along the line. When my children were young they were taught a couple of things. I told them they were entitled to their opionions, but people with differing opinions may be just as right. I taught them to stand up for themselves....and if they "needed" my help after that I would be there. I also taught them that their rights ended right where they encroached on someone elses.And last but not least: Life is not fair. The sooner they learned that the better off they were. They all turned out to be very successful. And, Minnow, ....it's true...life is not fair. Get over the 20 yr. sentence for drugs........let it go.
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Clovis
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Posted on: Apr. 16 2004,7:49 am |
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| Quote | | Once her hormones start flowing it'll be all beer and parties, yet you'll still believe your little angel is perfect. |
Whatever. Maybe in your twisted little universe. But there are people who actually choose not to take the beer-and-party path. Who'd-a thunk it?
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. --Antoine de St-Exupéry
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Newbie
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Posted on: Apr. 16 2004,11:20 am |
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Gee "kid"; no where in my post did I see your name mentioned. However you prove my point about moral degradation with most of your posts on this board. I never claimed my values and morals where better than anyone else's. They are my children, my responsibility as such it will be my morals and values that I will instill in them. That is called parenting. I am under no illusion that my children will never try drugs or alcohol. They might. They will know how I feel about it. I have a very open dialogue with my children. They can come to me with anything and not be ridiculed or judged. I never said they were perfect no one is. They have made bad choices and learned from them and are still learning.
Mama I agree with your post I also teach those same things to my children. Children are a huge responsibility and I don't think enough parents take it seriously. By societies standards today I think many people would agree with that. Obviously not "kid"
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