Well, the peace and quiet is over and so is the stitching time

DS is home from camp. The running around begins again and there goes my stitching time! LOL

Cheryl

Oh - and he managed to reduce his sister to tears in record time...

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Cheryl Isaak
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I completely understand - my ds is due back Thursday night. Fall ball will be starting soon, once school starts dd starts back on the evening practice schedule and I live in my car. . .

Hugs!

Linda

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lewmew

Is this a remote idea, but don't other parents help out with the shlepping around? I have no kids, but I feel the pain of the taxi mom's out there.

v
Reply to
Jangchub

Oh, we carpool when we can, but it's not perfect. We live in an isolated neighborhood - which we generally love - but makes it a bit difficult to find people to carpool with, especially when practice ends at 9 pm and the kids don't actually make it to the car until

9:15 or so - who wants an extra 10 or 15 minutes of driving on a shcool night?
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lewmew

I have stitching in the truck, but you can't stitch and drive...

C
Reply to
Cheryl Isaak

For all practical purposes, this is Mom's job, guitar lessons, power skating type driving.

Drivers Ed starts a week from tomorrow and there are days where I'd just give him a car.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

type driving.

LOL - I sent my mother an email earlier this year saying "only 522 days until Sam gets his license."

Linda

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lewmew

Take it from one who has been there...that's when the real worrying begins...(sigh)

take care, Linda D. in B.C., Canada

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Linda D.

Exactly. And if DD case, no one else from the team lives less than 7 miles away.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

Oh dear, only 56 days until DS gets his....

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

Just one more thing to worry about....

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

Paraphrasing an old Chinese (???) saying -- be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

While sitting in the gym waiting for our girls to be finished with practise, one of the other moms told the rest of us to not too whine too much about the drain on our time and to keep bringing them, because each of her 2 older daughters had totaled cars not long after they got a license.

She was sooooooooo right about kids and cars -- my daughter ran her money sucking klunker into the ground until it finally gave up the ghost and then wrecked my little car not long after; my son was at Georgia Tech when his klunker was totalled by another driver.

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anne

Thank goodness licenses have begun more difficult to qualify for, at least here in MD. You have to hold a permit for some minimum time before you can get your license, and you also have to log X hours (I think 50?) of supervised driving. There are supposed limits on how many people can be in the car with a "rookie driver," but AFAIK it's not really enforceable. Oh, yes - no driving past midnight for the first 6 months or so. (I think they've also legislated cell phone/text messaging restrictions for young drivers, but not for experienced drivers. But that law hasn't gone into effect yet, so I don't remember the details.)

Those efforts make the parenting restrictions much easier to enforce! We were always trying to slow our kids down from getting their licenses - and making them pay half of the insurance was another good tactic for slowing down the race to the finish. The day they got their license, they had to have half the insurance payment ready to go. No insurance needed while they were on their permit.

Sue

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Susan Hartman

Boy, I prostrate to all mothers, everywhere! If I had kids I'd probably kill them! Of course kidding. :)

v
Reply to
Jangchub

You can't? Try harder!

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Jangchub

Hell, I saw something today that blew my mind - a passenger on a motorcycle reading a book.....

C
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Cheryl Isaak

BTW - it might be safer than texting and driving

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Cheryl Isaak

We went to see Batman the Dark Knight today. There were four, count 'em, FOUR on screen announcenents to shut the phones off, please don't text, no talking, and no yelling. Didn't we grow up knowing the movies and the library were quiet places?

I am feeling like an old alta cocker. I just can't get over how rude kids are.

v
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Jangchub

Now Vic, as a person who is not crazy about kids, especially ones not taught any manners because it would damage their egos, I have to say that around here MOST kids are civilized, you mustn't put them all in the same box. Many are harmed by the behaviour of the few.

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lucretia borgia

Oh alright, if I must...can I say many kids are rude? LOL

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Jangchub

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