dawneykids

And that's exactly how it should be. Bravo! Anyone who votes a straight party line without question is a buffoon and is wasting their vote. Republican, Democrat, whatever, there are idiots in every party who don't deserve blind votes by people who don't pay attention to their platform. IMO of course.

I think we all drive too fast sometimes, but hopefully we don't text at the same time.

I complained about that very same thing about 6 months ago on here and I was informed that police/sheriffs aren't held to the same law, that they were exempt. Briliant, huh!?

You are correct 100%. And I usually get ours from Sams, love 'em!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Crazy Cow.....I LOVE it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like our house. Hubby works outside the home, I don't, so most of the household stuff falls to me. That includes making dr appts, car repair appts, banking, school stuff, kid stuff, etc. But when he's home, he always helps. But he also does all of the outside stuff and upkeep of the house. I may buy the tools for him to get it done and we then do the project together because we're a team. We work really well together, we compliment each and respect what the other one does. Keeping score has had no place in this 31 year relationship, that may be why we have a 31 year relationship and

That poor kid is doomed. DOOMED. And the fault doesn't lie with him, but his mother. How will he ever fit in anywhere? It's sad.

I do that too.

According to the website there are structured timetables as well as everyday classes, that in itself is exactly the opposite of what the parents explained unsgooling to be on the program I watched. There is free time for made up games, art, etc., and that's great, but it's not like being unschooled. At least not according to what I saw this morning. These parents didn't believe in any kind of structure, rules, boundries, bedtimes or actually teaching their children anything. Not numbers, letters, grammar, they are allowed to learn it on their own, whatever that means. It didn't sound like the

There was a homeschool mom with 2 sons on the news a few years ago and both had a perfect score on their SAT's. Colleges were clamoring to have them. They were a success story for sure and I know that some parents do it right, but I've seen homeschooling first hand and to date, I haven't seen one single parent or child who was successful at it. Hubby and I used to work at a Parents Night Out at a neighbors church and 80% of the kids came, were homeschooled. These were the WORST kids I have ever come into contact with. Since they had little or no contact with other kids or adults and had no

Yep. This is why there shouldn't be specific laws pertaining to cell phones, texting, etc. Are we going to have a no cereal eating law? A no mascara applying law? A no book reading law? A no looking in the backseat for your purse law? It makes more sense to have a strict law against reckless driving, with stiff penalities. Hitting people in the pocket may deter them from doing daily chores while they're driving 60 mph.

I don't know how a child that is never taught anything is going to be well rounded. And I agree that homeschooling is very different from unschooling, one teaches a child something and the other teaches nothing. I can't respect a parent who chooses to let a child educate themselves at will. It's a detrement to the child and ultimately to the society they need to be a part of one day.

^^This, for sure. We know 2 sets of people, one with 8 kids and one with 4, both chose to home school. The 8 kid household was like the one you mentioned above and the kids were so far behind by the time their mother decided to send them to school, 3 of them aged out of high school before they were in 10th grade. It's sorryness if you ask me. The one with 4 homeschoolers was much more structured, but the same thing happened to two of hers and neither ever graduated high school. No GED, nothing. She finally sent the 2 youngest to private school, but they were behind from the get go and it took

I kept waiting for that to be addressed and it never was, so I have no idea. Loons. (And you and Blondie are my small circle of 'likes' too).

Hubby is funny because he can't or won't learn the difference between Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar. There is a Dollar General a mile from my house, so they get my emergency 'I don't want to go to Walmart' business. I never go to Famiy Dollar and Dollar Tree is my fav. Whichever one we're at he always asks me if it's the 'real' dollar store.

Hubby refuses to put his SS# on any medical forms. We left a new dr's office once because he wouldn't give it to them and they insisted that was how they identified their patients. We never went back. He still won't do it. I think I learned in school that when the SS administration was started, it was never meant to be used as a general ID. HHHHMMMMMM.

I couldn't sleep early this morning and ran across a show called 'Radical Parenting'. IMO, it should have been called 'Idiot Parents Who Need to be Slapped'. Home schooling is one thing because home schooled children are taught. These UNschoolers are apparently taught nothing. According to these parents, they learn by observing their surroundings. There is no structure, no set boundries, no rules to speak of because whatever the child wants to do, they do. Apparently, that turns them into the person they are supposed to be. These parents went on and on about how much they camped, traveled and

A Desert Eagle as a carry gun??? SERIOUSLY??!! Who does this guy think is after him?

OMG, how cool and funny. I think they work so well together because there are only two of them. You get many more than that trying to achieve a common goal and more often then not, the individuals begin to look out for their own best interests, not the what's best for the whole.

Yep. Total. And. Complete. Jackass. We were at the casual wedding reception of our niece a few weeks ago and as we were about to leave, Hubby noticed that the groom had his gun holstered and tucked quietly in the rear waist band of his pants. He's an MP in the Air Force and goes no where without his sidearm. That's how you carry, not like the idiot the OP described. What a d!ck, he's the guy that gives everyone else a bad name in the cary community.

Oh yea, you are. But honestly, I don't know what I'd do without all of the hubbub.

Yea, that's totally us!!!! I love 'em all, but it's time. They were complaining about being bored after 10 days and it's hard for them to comprehend that we can't do stuff every, single day. We've been on day trips, to the beach for a week, white water rafting, to the movies, on picnics, putt-putt, go kart driving, bowling, etc. I'm broke and tired. :lol:

Us too, no data plan at all. If we're out without middleschooler for a nice dinner, I'll put my phone on silent or vibrate in case of an emergency. If I don't know who's calling or don't want to be interrupted, I don't answer and like you, I believe that if it's important, they'll leave a message.

We're at Moses and I really like it. GOOOD luck.