Posts made by silverfox

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

It's my job to convince him to understand time. It's also my job to convince him that school is awesome. For the most part, I succeed, and he can do tasks on his own. He just slips sometimes.

I totally get where you're coming from. This line totally saved it though and made your point beautifully.

It's the parent's job to teach them, cajole them, and when they fall on their asses, support them back up again (with more instruction, praise, consequences, etc.) to get better. This parent had just given up. Since their nine-year-old hadn't learned how to manage their time then obviously they'd just failed as a parent and it was all their kid's fault. Totally pushed off any responsibility for helping.

#grump.

Upside though, I was able to give the kiddo a hug when she came in and tell her how amazing I think she was. And she lit up. Tiny things.

@aria EXACTLY.

I complain about Helicopter parents who blame all of their child's problems on me. Because they suck.

But the opposite parents are just as bad. The ones that blame their nine-year-old for having poor time management and trying to get out of work. They disgust me to no end. How hard is it to say to your child, 'We will work on this together and I'll help you get there'? I'm taking 24 hours and getting my admin input before I respond because I fucking just can't right now.

@sab

It's killing me to imagine the most wonderfulness of that.

@Sab

@ninjakitten

I have lost so many poses this way. I forget I have a thing copied and up copying over it when thing three suddenly happens.

@packrat Ha! I remember one year I was teaching down there it got SO COLD that the puddle behind one of the buildings actually froze over. I took my whole class out and they were BLOWN AWAY that water could freeze OUT SIDE just from the weather. I swear we took 30 minutes just touching and poking at the ice while I did an impromptu lesson about the states of water. Of my class of 32 kids, only one had ever been up to Flagstaff to see snow on the ground.

That said, moving back to Colorado after loving the heat there was the worst transition. Your body acclimates to the higher temperatures very quickly, but it's a lot harder to get use to the cold!

BACK TO YOUR QUESTION:

Basically anywhere you go on Phoenix-area is going to require some driving. You're pretty far from everything out in Mesa. The freeways are fairly good though (I mean, they're freeways so, ymmv) so you can get to most places within 30-60 minutes.

@doozer

A lot of my kiddos didn't own jackets!

@doozer

Cold for Arizona. I vividly remember not being allowed to take my students out some days in January/February because it was "too cold."

I ADORED living in Phoenix. 5 amazing years.

1. Hike Camelback mountain early in the morning. (like, 5 am!)
2. World Wildlife Zoo, Aquarium and Safari Park. It's smaller than your normal zoo, but you get closer than normal too.

This time of year there aren't a lot of farmers markets going on - it's too cold for them really.

Since I'm 100% chrome my options are fairly limited. I use the DuckClient extension. It has dual input windows, supports all the pretty colors, but has no spawns.

That's okay with me though, because I never could use spawns. I did it for like... three months back in 2004, but I found myself unable to ignore the notifications from them. So I would quickly flip over to look, but not really read because I was posing, then forget that it was there! If I turned the notifications off I just never checked them and then missed everything!

I am going to reply to the main gist of this thread.

Honestly, I would prefer if the Ads thread was limited to the ad, questions, and answers. When I am shopping for a new game (which I didn't know I could DO till soapbox, so yes, people do come here to find games!) I don't really want to know people's opinions.

I would personally love to believe everyone farts rainbows and learn otherwise myself, then confirm with my friends if it is me or them.

Just my two cents.

Waking up with a headache.

She looks sooooo soofffttttt.

Or he.

No judgement.

SO SOFT.

@sunny said in How Best To Help:

ETA: Very little drives me as batshit as someone assuming I didn't mean the question I asked (bonus points if it's because I'm a woman who couldn't possibly understand the answer, which I run into in the tech field pretty regularly) and answering what they think I SHOULD have asked, instead. 'Did you mean...' is OK. 'Well, I know you asked where to find it, but the book is really complicated and the system varies, and basically just roll X and Y and your difficulty in this situation is Z' is not.

This.

@paris

So much. When I am with my brother I deliberately avoid looking other people in the eye when he is trying to engage with them. Last time we were in a shop replacing his Camelpack and I straight up refused to answer their questions because they kept asking me and not my brother. It was his business they were getting! TALK TO HIM. I'll be his hands but I will not enable people to ignore him.

@paris Ugh, this makes me so mad!

It drives me mad when adults/teens stare at my brother (he's a quadraplegic with no use of his hands and wrists, and some limited use of his arma) but don't bother to actually try to speak to him.

It also bothers me when they go to pet his service dog despite the vest that asks them politely not to. Even worse is when he asks them to stop they then DON'T look at him or apologize or anything. It's like he isn't even there.

Worst of all is when kids come and are completely enthralled by him and his service dog WANT to talk to my brother, but their parents pull them away and whisper for them to leave my brother alone but don't speak to him themselves. Brother LOVES answering every question for every kid that wants to ask. He video chats into my classroom every year to speak to my kids about having disabilities and it's the highlight of his year. Adults can be serious jerks though.

@rucket

What I want to know now is how many outright stupid things you do now. (I laugh as I type this because most stupid things don't SEEM stupid at the time.)

The upside of working with kids is that when they do things that are absolutely ridiculous I can call their parents and have them join me in the, "THEY DID WHAT?!"

This year it was one of my boys poking a fork (how did he get a fork during my reading centers while sitting RIGHT NEXT TO ME?!) into the outlet. Texted father and got back, "WHAT?! HE KNOWS WHAT OUTLETS ARE."

So I'm going to assume all of these people just never progressed past 4th grade and/or didn't have parents that flipped out when they did stupid stuff.