Mama Carol

Poor little guy probably feels like he is being punished. He can't help it if he has ADHD. Still have to wonder if it was a new teacher who has no clue about ADD/ADHD and what is and isn't normal for a kindergarten student to go through the first few days, or even months, of school.

One has to wonder.

Seems strange that they would tell you that's the closest one. It isn't. Seems like a very odd choice all around.

A neighbor's child with really, really bad ADD walked out of the classroom, down the street, crossed the railroad track and was about a half mile from home (had to cross 278 at Oglesby's Road to get home) when the principal located him. Our middle daughter got sent to the principal's office so much her first couple of years in school, she had her own chair in there.

Ummmmmm. Your son was sent to a psychiatric facility three counties away for ADHD? Did they not tell you at Cobb Hospital that one of the best psychiatric facilities for adolescents and children is right here in Cobb County?

Wow. Glad to know it wasn't just me who felt that way. I do have to wonder if perhaps it is a new teacher and he/she doesn't know what is or is not normal for a kindergartner in the first few days of school. My next door neighbor was a para in a kindergarten class for many years and some of the stories she can tell would curl your hair.

Very, very true.

Just remember, everyone else there will be 36 years older, too. And if you're anything like me and my hubby, we are so much healthier and younger looking than most of the people we graduated with, you end up looking the better than the prettiest or most handsome one in high school does now.

I felt a lot better about it since my daughter knows this person. They don't know each other well, but I can't see my daughter getting scammed. She's pretty savvy and perhaps even more cynical than I am.

I've enjoyed every one of mine even the one at the Holiday Inn with the broken air conditioning in August. I hate I missed the last two, but I really couldn't go to one of them since I was out of town anyway. After I posted last night I kept thinking "why did I not go to the 35th?" Then I remembered I was in Mississippi! Duh! I didn't go to the 36th because NOBODY I cared to see was going to be there--not my best friend from now, not my best friend from high school, not my sister, none of my cousins, NOBODY I wanted to see. When I went to my tenth, I walked in and started talking to

:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: I am getting some work, too. Maybe the economy IS picking up a little.

No I haven't. In fact, meant to post an update. My daughter called late last night (right after I had gone to bed) and said she had taken the woman to the store and got her some groceries but she was unable to do anything about the woman needing gas money. The woman had enough gas to get back and forth to work today but that's it. I just dropped a gas card in the mail to her. I was going to send it to my daughter to give to her but my daughter is on the road to Washington, DC at this very moment to take her daughter to college. I wish I could have taken her the card, but they live down n

When someone has shown a history of taking advantage of others by giving a hard luck, whoa is me story, it's time to cut them off. Sorry, but that's the way I feel. There are plenty of people who really do need help to waste your time and resources on those who don't really need the help or who are just trying to find a way to support a habit, whether it be drugs, booze, gambling or whatever. I have a good friend who is a gambling addict. He will tell all kinds of hard luck stories to get you to loan him money. He called me one day and asked for money (never mind he owes me almost $1

That's truly giving with no strings attached. I've done that in the past, got burned and now I like to know that the help I'm giving is going for the intended purpose. With the direct payments for medical bills, utilities, groceries or whatever, I can give people help without expecting them to rip me off. I am a very positive person but also a card-carrying cynic. Same here. No time or tolerance for con artists.

I remember back in 2001 when our youngest and her husband had moved to Austell, basically with nothing more than their clothes and her bed. We had requested prayer for our daughter during Sunday School. After Sunday School one of the other members came up and asked if there was anything she could do to help and did they need anything. We thanked her for her concern, said they basically had nothing yet (but had just moved in the past two days or so). She said, follow me home. I have some things to send to them. And send them things she did!! A dining room table that came with six chairs,

I guess that's why we want to help if we can. We have been in need and have been helped. By us helping someone else, we pay honor to my mom who did help us when we needed it. She had been a single mom at one time, with four kids back in the early 1950s, and had it not been for the help of neighbors, they would have been homeless and hungry. She helped when she could since she had been helped. We do it for the same reason. Single moms are close to my heart.

You know, I hadn't thought about gift cards being sold. Shows how often I get a gift card! I'm even uncomfortable if the person behind me in line at the store sees I'm a few pennies short and I have to get some out of the "leave one, get one" tray. I would NEVER ask a stranger for money. I had an anxiety attack once when I had to ask my mom for money. In fact, had several before I worked up enough nerve to ask for the money. I'd be embarrassed within an inch of my life if I had to ask strangers. certainly not looking for anything in return. Just want to do it so that the per

It's always been our policy to meet the need directly if possible. We just about never give anyone money. We've taken people to the grocery store, have given them rides, etc. But not money. Never. No matter how sad a story they tell. I guess it's why I don't fall prey to the scammers online either. Not hard hearted, just got a brain that works (most of the time at least). In this situation, the help wasn't asked of us at least not yet. The person asked our daughter for help. With one just starting college and two others at home and our daughter in college herself and her husband

Only problem with that is she doesn't live close around here. But a great idea. I could get something to my daughter to leave for her.

we prefer to remain anonymous, so there would be no strings at all. Hadn't thought about the gift cards freeing up her cash to pay her bills. Good thought.

I need some advice from Pcommers. One of my daughter's neighbors is a single mom and needs short term financial help. We want to help but we're not sure the best way to do it. We also want to make sure the need really is there and it's not just a scam or someone who makes a habit of doing things like this. So, my questions are this: how do we check out her need? Apparently she isn't from here and has no family in the area. We pretty much have to take what she says as the truth, which it very well may be. She mentioned part of the issue was a medical bill. In this day of privacy

I was closer to the members of the class ahead and behind me. I had no "best friend" in my graduating class. My best friend was a year behind me. I still have gone to almost all of the reunions. You would be amazed at how different people are 20 or 25 years later. I had people come up to me at the reunions and ask if my mom still lived in the red brick house next to the garden. I had no idea that most people I graduated with even knew where I lived or that my mom lived there until she passed away, six years ago. I didn't hang out with people in my class either.

I didn't plan to to go my 20th reunion. Ran into someone the year before me just a few weeks before my reunion. They said they hadn't planned to go to theirs either but decided almost last minute to go. They were so very happy they did because not only did they see people they hadn't seen in 20 years but saw one they would never see again. That one person passed away just a few weeks after the reunion and while they had not been a real close friend, they had been a friend. Same thing happened with my 30th reunion. A former classmate spent the evening telling everyone goodbye. We prob

Not the first one they have had there. Praying everyone is OK.

WTH?? Someone you can claim as a dependent but can't put on your insurance as a dependent? That's crazy.