The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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MinnieM123 said:
I would love to see the GF gingerbread house up close.

A few years ago, I was watching a pleasant show on tv about the White House gingerbread house, and how the chefs would start backing the gingerbread many weeks in advance. The entire project took a long time to bake, assemble, decorate, etc., and then it had to be carefully slid on to a platform, and carried on the shoulders by at least 4-6 men to the room where the gingerbread house would be on display. It was a very delicate task to move the house to the display table without the house falling to the floor and breaking. (Apparently, it was also very heavy and that's why they needed multiple people to carry it. If I recall correctly, the location of this particular kichen was in a lower level without an elevator, and they had to carry it up some steps as well.)
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Was that program called "A White House Christmas"?
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Songbird76 said:
Yep...well, my dad is 82 now, so he's quite...old-fashioned (and very misogynistic) and he brought me to his lawyer to talk about the future. I was 14 and he had his lawyer talk to me about my desire to go to college, because women don't belong in higher education. The only thing a woman needs from college is to find a husband to support her and even if a women does manage to make it through college without getting married, her degree is worth nothing, because she is female and it's a man's world. The only jobs fit for a woman are teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. Needless to say, my father wasn't willing to contribute to my education.
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My pop will be 83 on Jan. 1st, and is quite a bit different.
Both my folks were raised on farms in south-central Texas, so they still cling to some older fashioned ways, but, they've also learned to roll with the times to a large degree, due to love, compassion, and understanding.
I have 3 younger siblings - 2 brothers, one 18 mo. younger than myself and the other 5 yrs. younger, and a 12 yr. younger sis.
All 3 of us boys never completed 4 years of college and my folks paid for all 4 years for our sis to get a degree.
I just never felt college was right for me, at the time.
Both brothers started, but, never finished.
Sis finished with a degree in fashion merchandising.
Funny thing is, we're all successful - in different ways...
I'm a designer for an architectural firm, next youngest bro and his wife own a medical supply company, youngest bro is an IT guy for the state, and sis is a stay-at-home mom. :)
 
catmom46

catmom46

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Songbird76 said:
Well, my dad is a product of his generation. It's the way he was taught and brought up to believe. When he starts spewing nonsense, I just bite my tongue because I know he's not going to change and he's old...I don't know how many more years I'll have him here, so I don't want to fight with him about things like that. I don't like how he thinks, but my whole childhood, I had a horrible relationship, almost NO relationship with him. Now that I'm older and have forgiven him, I won't waste the little time we have left arguing. So I try to change the subject. It's just not worth fighting about.
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That is a great attitude. While my dad is definitely more liberal, he still has a few prejudices, but I've never argued with him about them for the same reason as you. Why waste energy when they're not going to change their minds?
 
catmom46

catmom46

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donaldtoo said:
My pop will be 83 on Jan. 1st, and is quite a bit different.
Both my folks were raised on farms in south-central Texas, so they still cling to some older fashioned ways, but, they've also learned to roll with the times to a large degree, due to love, compassion, and understanding.
I have 3 younger siblings - 2 brothers, one 18 mo. younger than myself and the other 5 yrs. younger, and a 12 yr. younger sis.
All 3 of us boys never completed 4 years of college and my folks paid for all 4 years for our sis to get a degree.
I just never felt college was right for me, at the time.
Both brothers started, but, never finished.
Sis finished with a degree in fashion merchandising.
Funny thing is, we're all successful - in different ways...
I'm a designer for an architectural firm, next youngest bro and his wife own a medical supply company, youngest bro is an IT guy for the state, and sis is a stay-at-home mom. :)
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I also have a sibling 12 years younger than me (brother), plus a sister 14 years younger, and an older brother by 4 years. It's definitely a different dynamic with such a large gap, huh?
 
French Quarter

French Quarter

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Songbird76 said:
Yep, but that's the school system in the Netherlands. The kids start school on their 4th birthday. There are 2 years of kindergarten. If your birthday is before January, the time from your birthday to the end of the school year counts as the first year. So my son, whose birthday is in December, only had half a year for his first year...at the end of that school year, he moved to year 2. But my daughter's birthday is in May, so she went from May to July, but it didn't count and she had to start her first year of kindergarten then in the new school year. My son is the youngest in his class and most of the kids are at least a year older because most parents who have kids with birthdays in that first part of the school year choose to let them do an extra kindergarten year. We chose not to because DS could already read and add, etc, so he would have been SUPER bored in kindergarten for a whole extra year. But, kids also aren't obligated to go to school until they are 5. So you don't need permission to take them out of school until their 5th birthday.
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Well I can understand the approach but I actually wish our children had more time outside of the classroom. I find there is such a push here from the time babies are born to put them into structured programs. I resisted that and have well adjusted model students.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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French Quarter said:
My kind of duck is served hot with a nice orange glaze. :)
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:D ;)
 
French Quarter

French Quarter

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MOXOMUMD said:
Students here are given ten absences. After the eleventh the parents receive a summons to family court to explain why so many days.
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Well that is a lot of unexplained absences. But couldn't the school just address it? Seems like an odd thing to go to court for right off the start.

There is no set number here but if a child is routinely late and absent, Child Protective Services can be brought in for neglect if there is seemingly no good reason for the absences.
 

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