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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Goofyernmost said:
My sister sends all of us transplanted Vermonters a small bottle of Vermont Maple Syrup every Christmas. So I have used about 7 pints of Maple since I have been living in NC. The 63 years previous, when I lived in Vermont, I never had a single serving of Maple Syrup unless it was in a restaurant. It cost to damn much. And, ironically, it literally grows on trees.
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:hilarious: We always have maple syrup in our house. That is what the kids use for waffles and pancakes. I also use it as a sugar substitute in baking.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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MinnieM123 said:
See, that's what I don't get--it's the challenging attitude. When we got busted in school, we'd cringe at the thought of getting kept there after school, or having a note sent home to parents, etc. I honestly don't recall any kid back-talking a teacher like that. Our parents would have gone ballistic if they found out that one of their kids had acted like that.

We weren't better kids than the student that gave you a hard time, but we accepted the fact that there would be accountability for anything stupid we did. That's the missing piece it would seem nowadays, with some kids (and their parents).
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Mine too. My brother was acting out in elementary school for a while. They came down hard on him. He doesn't act out now.

I never did anything to get myself in trouble; I was one of those kids who hated being in trouble (even as an adult I'm that way; the time I got pulled over for having a break light out you would have thought something was majorly wrong afterwards...) but still, I can imagine my parents really not being happy if I had done anything to get myself in trouble. I earned the nickname goody two shoes for always sticking with the rules...well, except for skipping out on the pep rally that one time.

I still remember in Junior year of high school, my cell phone went off in the middle of AP English. I fully expected to have it taken away and got myself in a mini panic attack. Instead, my teacher went, "Cool ringtone." And continued teaching.
 
21stamps

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Songbird76 said:
So, my two went trick or treating with friends tonight, and they said that most people they could see were home, but didn't answer the door. Some answered but didn't have candy....they got cough drops, one gave them a bag of candy to share in their group, one went to the store just to get candy for them because he felt bad he didn't have any. One person stopped their car to give them marshmallows, and DD said they had a toddler in the back that waved and said "Bye bye" when they drove off....apparently it was adorable. I actually had 3 groups of trick-or-treaters besides my kids' group!! That's never happened! And they all seemed so surprised that someone actually answered the door.

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The first one is my two (obviously), the 2nd is my daughter, her best friend's little sister, whose face I didn't cover because you can't see her face through her zombie makeup anyway, the little sister's best friend, and 2 boys from DD's and her best friend's class at school. The 2 boys play fortnite with DD and her bestie....it's a good group of kids. The last one is DS and DD's best friend, who I didn't scribble out, again because of the zombie makeup. (which looked AMAZING...her face was unzipped halfway. Very cool.
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So adorable!!!

Goofyernmost said:
It's only going to get worse. Around here, someone told me yesterday that along with no longer teaching Cursive, they no longer make any attempt to teach spelling or grammar. In about 18 years there are going to a whole lot of semi-illiterate people floating around.
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My kid learns and uses cursive at school, they also have constant spelling and grammar tests since kindergarten.. I don’t think this is a nationwide problem, but it definitely shouldn’t happen anywhere.
MySmallWorldof4 said:
Trick or treat is done and for the first time in years the kids could wear their costumes without jackets, and I didn’t freeze. So a great night for begging for candy. :)
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Oh that’s wonderful! It was pouring raining here. :(

I was stuck at work and T went with my mom. He usually goes trick or treating in their neighborhood, we’ve brought our neighbor with us in prior years, but they’re out of town this year. Not a ton of kids in that neighborhood, the residents do bonfires at the end of the driveways, which is common, but many give out out full size bars.. and towards the end just dump the bowl in the kids’ bags. lol.

Unfortunately for him it wasn’t quite the same this year.. they stayed out for about 30 minutes.

StarWarsGirl said:
Okay, as far as the Tesla, I could maybe see a 16/17 year old getting their parents' used Tesla if their parents was buying themselves a new car and did it as a hand me down. Maybe. I mean, I got my parents' hand me downs as my first two cars.

But brand new? Now admittedly, I'm in the always-buy-new-cars camp. But even so, either get yourself a new car and give your teen your car, or buy your teen something cheap and safe. Teens should not be trusted around expensive cars. Even when I was a teen, I understood why I wasn't allowed to drive the brand-new Buick Enclave.

And no teen needs an iPhone X. iPhones can be good given that they're really easy to lock down and monitor activity, as well as track, but no teen needs that one. Not unless they bought and paid for it themselves.
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I try to withhold judgement on this kind of stuff. I hope to buy a new car for T when he is 16.. it will depend on responsible behavior and grades, but it would give me a lot of piece of mind to know that he would have new safety features and not worry about mechanical problems.

The iPhone X who knows, I think a lot of carriers just did a buy one get one free or heavily discounted offer. Or maybe it was a Christmas or birthday present..
That said, my kid will definitely never have the latest iPhone unless there’s a huge discount a month before the new one comes out. 😂


MySmallWorldof4 said:
When in Florida, homeschool.
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This is one of the factors that went into our move. The private schools I wanted were just too expensive.. and I was worried about public.
 
21stamps

21stamps

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ADMachine said:
Halloween was great. Sarah and I went Trick or Treating, despite being 18. Got in a Goofy Impression battle with a neighbor, so that made the night. View attachment 323487
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donaldtoo said:
And, some Halloween fun from both DDs, SonIL, and Emy...!!!!!!!!!!! :joyfull::hilarious::happy::)

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Love these!!!!!! ❤️


@dryerlintfan , what did A dress up as?
 

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