dawneykids

We're bad!! Funny........but bad!!

Thank you!! The big house was Mt. Vernon, the home of George Washington and the ambulance ride for 5th grader was the highlight........ NOT, for us all. But that's what happens when you run backwards, you trip and the back of your head hits the ground before anything else. Lots of blood, lots of screaming, passing out and FINALLY a trip to Washington Childrens Hospital via the big red bus. Luckily, he's fine and what a story we have to tell!

OK, now that I have to get red Kool-aid out of my keyboard and off the computer screen, :lol: :lol: :lol: tell Mimi to throw a few back for me!! Ya can't beat that REAL LIFE experience, especially at her age!

These are some pix of our trip to Washington over fall break. Take note of the last one, too much excitement for this Mom. I hope this works!! DANG!! I used the editor on photobucket to rotate a few of the pictures and apparently it didn't work. But not too bad for my first EVER pix on Pcom.

What of load of horse pucky! Yes, I want my child to experience the real world of being molested, or worse, by a stranger while walking from school alone. That is such a cop out for people who are too busy to pay attention to their kids. Yea.....I opened that can of worms. But he's not guilty, did you miss those posts? Thank you! +50

It was honestly like a skit from Saturday Night Live.

Us too. We rode the subway in from Silver Spring, MD and just getting from train to train on different levels, finding elevators, etc., was an adventure in itself. I have a photobucket account so I'll do that tonite. Thanks for the info.

Fremont Street was my favorite thing when we went a few years ago. And the spiral escalator at the Venetian was unbelievable. I love Papi's ride. I had a manual wheelchair in DC and all went well until Hubby took his hands off the handles not realizing that I was on an incline, I zoomed down the ramp and took out a teenager at the Smithsonian. Not my best moment. I would post some pics, but every time I try, it doesn't work.

When my daughter was in 2nd grade, I got a very serious call from her teacher and initially was upset by the call...........until the teacher began relaying the 'problem'. 'Well, we had a little problem with XXX in the lunchroom today'. 'OK, what happened'? 'After XXX had finished her lunch, she put her lunch bag on her head like a hat'. 'Excuse ME'? 'Yes, it was very distracting to the other students'. 'You're serious'? 'Yes, I am'. 'OK.....let me be clear, NEVER call me if my child puts a bag on her head again. If she is disrespectful, rude, violent, or is missing fine. But a bag........I do

Then why not give him 30 days notice? If he doesn't leave after the 30 days, pack his stuff and put it on the stoop.

I have ALWAYS told our children that 'the second one always get caught', meaning that your child was shoved, he retaliated and that is when the teacher got involved. It's never the first one who throws the first punch, but the one who reacts to the punch. It's a load of horse pucky, but that's the way it usually happens. Good luck to you and your son.

Agree 100%. Tell a teacher, don't squirt hand sanitizer. At lease he didn't punch him though.

Unfortunately, that can be said of anyone who is in jail or on any list, anywhere. I'm unwilling to take the chance that they are innocent because I think that the majority of people convicted are guilty. I do read the 'alerts' that come out and the ones that say 'aggravated child molestation', I take VERY seriously simply because it is so hard to prove. Ones that say 'statutory rape' I view a little differently because so many times that is a boyfriend having sex with his underage girlfriend and while wrong and against the law, it doesn't compare with molesting a child. The bald man with glas

Me too!

This story kind of renews my faith in mankind.

Maybe Subby could get a gig here.

In my neck of the woods in New Hope, we pay from $17.99 to $21.99 for a fill up. Ace Hardware is the cheapest and Walgreens the most expensive.

I have a great idea!!!! When you get this urge in the future, get in your car, drive on over to my house and clean until your heart's content. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for your sanity.

I used to work with a gal many moons ago, that may not have been the brightest bulb in the box, who swore that you didn't have to use your turn signals in Cartersville.

This is 2 streets from my neighborhood and EXACTLY why my son and grandchildren will NEVER be outside alone. There has been another offender on the registry on the same street for a while. 2 on the same street!?!?!?!?! Scary!

You are correct.

PcsCharli does handyman work I think and I've heard only good things.

he man who helped introduce Hubby to the gun world several years ago, shot himself in the leg by accident 3 months ago. There was no horse play, etc., but a misfire that went right through his leg. If it can happen to an experienced gun owner, anyone with little or no experience needs to be EXTRA careful when handling a gun. And you did the right thing by pointing the gun to the ground. That was one of the first things I was taught when Hubby started bring guns home. In the eyes of a responsible gun owner, a gun is always loaded and should be handled that way.

I've lived in Paulding county fro 16 years and I've never experienced anything you've described. By the tone of your post, I'm not sure you'd be happy anywhere.

Luckily for their sake, my eyes and the 'eyes of the law' are two completely different sets. I don't care what excuses they throw out and 'oh we love our kids', there IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS KID BEING IN THE SHAPE HE'S IN. Was he abusing the younger children? If so, why not take the proper channels to handle the situation? Was he abusing drugs? Try rehab. In his so called 'parents' eyes, even if he was doing something that was wrong (which hasn't been brought up), there are other alternatives than starving your child, locking him away and then putting him on a bus to a city 2500 miles away. I d