Sitting up late, rocking a feverish baby, I realize...

[abckidsmom]

Danger rant ahead:
If doing your job interferes with your preferred schedule. Get another job.

Sorry, rant off.

I could ramble on and on, but this one's just going to get an AMEN.

I just wish that priority dispatching was a given so that we never, ever drove lights and sirens for a non-emergency. I hate that.

Some of my favorite work is completely comprised of educating people in how to successfully manage their own problems. I have a side-job, among my friends, of calculating their kids' tylenol dose. (I have them sign a waiver first...lol)

 

[Aidey]

Some of my favorite work is completely comprised of educating people in how to successfully manage their own problems. I have a side-job, among my friends, of calculating their kids' tylenol dose. (I have them sign a waiver first...lol)

There isn't an app for that?












Sorry, I couldn't resist. ^_^

 

[Seaglass]

I have some relatives who would've called 911 in your position. While people like them are pretty frustrating when I'm the one who gets to respond, I feel sorry for them.

Why? Because they're feeling real fear. They're convinced that the human body is inherently fragile and unstable, and filled with all kinds of myths they got from like-minded parents on the internet. I don't think it's really their fault, either. They just have no idea how to tell good information from bad information, and tend to go with the scariest choices because they're scared of being wrong and hurting their kids.

I definitely like them a lot better than the ones who forget that kids need regular feeding, at least.

Because 40 years ago, almost every girl took Home Ec, Health class, and Child development. They learned how to take care of a family. So yes, they did learn how to be parents, through Government.

I wish there was some sort of life skills class for all middle schoolers. Things like cooking, basic car maintenance, and how to balance a checkbook are completely beyond way too many college students.

 

[abckidsmom]

I wish there was some sort of life skills class for all middle schoolers. Things like cooking, basic car maintenance, and how to balance a checkbook are completely beyond way too many college students.

I taught that class last year at our homeschool co-op. Homeschool is the new magnet school. Just sayin.

In our co-op, which is an all-day Friday day of school, in the past year, we've had ballistics, rocketry, robotics, aeronautics (taught by an aerospace engineer), cooking, quilting, sewing, art, simple machines, ropes and knots, life skills, small engine exploration and repair, CPR and first aid, phonics, astronomy, anatomy, community helpers, latin, study of english roots, biology, french, choir, violin, music theory, chess, and little house on the prarie club.

We have fun, and the kids learn a lot.

 

[abckidsmom]

There isn't an app for that?


Sorry, I couldn't resist. ^_^

I've got a niche market, and an iphone hasn't been in the budget yet. Bummer.

 

[Shishkabob]

I wish there was some sort of life skills class for all middle schoolers. Things like cooking, basic car maintenance, and how to balance a checkbook are completely beyond way too many college students.

That's the thing... there IS.


Granted I went to an affluent, upper-middle class, predominantly white school district....

Remember this when you get woken up with someone's non-emergency, please.

Kid with fever =/= adult fully capable of handling themselves with little to no ill-effect with fever.

 

[Seaglass]

I taught that class last year at our homeschool co-op. Homeschool is the new magnet school. Just sayin.

When it's done right, at least. Most of the ones I've gotten to know subscribe to the "the only way to keep kids out of Sin is to make them dress up like Little House on the Prarie!" and "my snowflake is much too special to ever meet other kids!" schools of thought.

A lot of the parents I see are also in situations that don't give them options beyond shoving their kids at the nearest public school. Depressing.

That being said, if I ever have kids and there was a good homeschool co-op around, that's probably where I'd send them.

That's the thing... there IS.

Granted I went to an affluent, upper-middle class, predominantly white school district....

Where I went to school, classes like that were mostly for lower-class kids, if they existed at all. They were especially pointless because a lot of their target students dropped out and/or had kids before reaching the end of high school, which is when they were offered. The general idea seemed to be that rich white kids who stayed in school would be better off slaving over additional AP courses and eating ramen for the rest of their lives.

Granted, my district was really awful...