Husband put a super expensive gaming chair on his 'wish list' that we send out to families when they ask what he wants. There was never an expectation that someone would buy it for him, but it sat there as a reminder that SOME DAY he wanted to buy it.
My parents bought it for him and it has changed his life. Less knee pain, less back pain. I wish we hadn't waited!
I'm going dark because I'm realizing I'm taking a lot of what is being said.
Please be kind.
No one in any school out there is out to hurt the children. No one.
A mu* where everyone is a cat. CatsMu
That's it.
My little sister got a job at my school this year. WE LOOK NOTHING ALIKE BEYOND BEING SHORT.
She has nice rounded body and I'm all sharp edges.
She has RED HAIR and mine is a muddy blond.
She wears BRIGHT EXCITING colors and I wear nice muted autumn colors.
ALSO I AM EIGHT YEARS OLDER THAN HER. I have so many gray hairs I can't cover them with hair dye any more!
AND YET
Kindergartener today, "Are you and Mrs. <> twins?"
NO WE ARE NOT I AM OLDER.
(this is amused anger.)
Being shown pretty pictures to make into stuff, even if my words aren't nearly as good as the pictures.
@Too-Old-For-This One of the other fosters is doing that too. She got ringworm babies last summer and is still in quarantine for a few more months and can't foster.
Kids constantly amazed me. After having to discipline a kid yesterday I knew I had to go repair the relationship. (Like, not back off the discipline, he still screwed up and consequences still will happen.) So when it was his time we sat and I told him to just let it out. Whatever he was mad about, anything, nothing he said in that half hour would have consequences. He laid it out, and then we got to talk about what he thought was most important. I apologized for getting heated, and he apologized for his actions.
Usually it would end there, good enough. But when I was talking to dad last night dad mentioned something offhand about a brother and things being hard. So at the end of the above talk I went, "Is your brother okay? Your dad said something, but didn't go into detail, totally cool if you don't want to say anything."
That opened the floodgates. For the next hour this kiddo laid out his whole life.
And //fuck//. Like, I'm in awe he doesn't get in MORE trouble. I'm in awe he is only two years behind in school. This kid has had to deal with more trauma in his life than ANYONE should ever have to, and he still fucking shows up?!
I'm still going to hold his feet to the fire and when he really screws up things will happen but... damn if I'm not going to let a few minor things slide.
What is your problem?
Edit: Like, seriously. The person you quoted is making efforts to see to their own core philosophy in a way that respects nuance. Agree or disagree with that, but don't be like that.
Half a peeve, but also an optimistic ending?
I have kiddos coming from two different teachers last year. Half had a teacher with strong management even though she was pregnant the last half of the year. The other half came from a teacher who was a TRAINWRECK. Zero management, zero accountability, just... zip.
I can tell which kids came from which teacher based on how they behave. It is so starkly evident it isn't even funny.
Optimistic note: All of them are SWEETHEARTS. Like, run up and give me hugs. I am confident if I give them a proper structure that they'll thrive and blow me out of the water on what they can do. I'm super excited to see where they go!!
I dunno, "Poopyhead" is more constructive than some posts in these 11 pages.
Parents who are both advocates for their kiddos, but also support the teacher with ways to help their kid be successful.
When someone poses something random, and then someone else poses back at that random, and then it snowballs quickly out of control but it's funny and amazing and wonderful.
This came up in the MSB Peeves thread.
@mietze said in MU Things I Love:
hmmm. have you thought about a general post on game asking for people who like that kind of thing?
I actually have a whole group of people that ICly have said they're interested when my character brought it up! So I know there are people to do it. I just feel the onus, as the person organizing things, to have some kind of methodology for moving forward.
Blah... word vomit for a second because words are hard:
So like. at the start, I feel like the person organizing should have some kind of direction to get everyone pointed in a productive path. Then the RP can take it where it will. But I'm not sure how to even start. Right now I've got this vague idea, but no way pointing forward that's entertaining to RP. I feel like it would be SUPER easy to have a scene where everyone walks away super disatisifed about something they were excited about when they realize there isn't anything of substance there. (I like substance RP. My quota of Bar RP is exactly... never but I take what I can get.)
Building off of that, if I reach out to the people OOCly to get input, I don't want to run into the problem where we decide all the things ICly, and then the IC meeting is just a rehashing of what was done OOCly. (That sounds really boring.) Moreover, if it //isn't// a rehashing of what was already done I worry about the push back if things do naturally change because of IC things, then there is going to be some serious miscommunications with people confused between if they're doing what was talked about OOCly or what was talked about ICly. (I've had this happen way too many times to the point where my go to is just to back the fuck out and just not do that whatever-it-was any more to avoid the conflict.)
Abrupt moral quandaries that come out of nowhere and leave your character going, "I think I did the right thing, but it wasn't a good thing." twirls clutching them tightly
