OK so sorry for those that I offended yesterday. My point was there are already not enough jobs for the college educated. I think that education is important. I want my children to go to college. I just don't think that if every child went to college that would be the answer. That is all. Then again maybe it would. To me it just doesn't really make sense.
The speech was also not played in my children's schools. I don't know why. I think it may have to do with the Christians. I wonder how they are breaking down the speech. I work with a primarily conservative Christian client base. I hear a lot. So things that my have been offensive in the conservative Christian world are: you choose your own destiny (apparently God does this), JK Rawlings and the Harry Potter series (witchcraft), Magic (didn't he used to have AIDS from sleeping around?). Not my views. Conservative Christian speak. Not sure what else there is. That is all I picked up on. Isn't that a weird perspective.
My kids started school yesterday. They both had a good day or so it seemed. I'm so happy about that. Last year was so hard because we had just moved. They had a hard transition.
Last night I was sewing some curtains for the school that they are opening at the birth center that I work at. It is a Waldorf school. While I was ironing I noticed my son playing a video game that I had asked him not to play. I asked what the game was called. He said GTE. I asked what that stood for. He said Grand Theft Auto. I was pretty upset. I said calmly didn't I tell you that in the Summer that I am not OK with that game being played her. My husband and him continued to deny that they knew anything about that. So that is when I got more upset. I never yelled at my son. I said that I am not OK with it. Because it is a game that has prostitutes, drugs, theft, violence, etc... I have come to realize that the part that I am most not OK with is the degradation of women. So my son cried. I took away his favorite thing. My husband didn't back me. So I got pissed and called him a little boy. He didn't like that much. I SUCK. I did feel that way though. I have had a long conversation with him in the past about how the game is not appropriate for my children. IT TOTALLY SUCKS being the mean mom. It totally sucks parenting sometimes. I hope I survive the teen years. I have really good kids but I am worried. I was such a bad teen that my poor kids have a much tighter leash. **sigh**
I'm going to pick up my wet suit tonight. I have to swim in it for the next couple days. The reality of the triathlon being right around the corner is crazy. Am I ready? Well I am as ready as I am going to be. This is the first one. I will do it again next year and it will be much easier I'm sure with a year of fitness training.
I hope you are all well. Now I need to finish the curtains.
xo
The speech was also not played in my children's schools. I don't know why. I think it may have to do with the Christians. I wonder how they are breaking down the speech. I work with a primarily conservative Christian client base. I hear a lot. So things that my have been offensive in the conservative Christian world are: you choose your own destiny (apparently God does this), JK Rawlings and the Harry Potter series (witchcraft), Magic (didn't he used to have AIDS from sleeping around?). Not my views. Conservative Christian speak. Not sure what else there is. That is all I picked up on. Isn't that a weird perspective.
My kids started school yesterday. They both had a good day or so it seemed. I'm so happy about that. Last year was so hard because we had just moved. They had a hard transition.
Last night I was sewing some curtains for the school that they are opening at the birth center that I work at. It is a Waldorf school. While I was ironing I noticed my son playing a video game that I had asked him not to play. I asked what the game was called. He said GTE. I asked what that stood for. He said Grand Theft Auto. I was pretty upset. I said calmly didn't I tell you that in the Summer that I am not OK with that game being played her. My husband and him continued to deny that they knew anything about that. So that is when I got more upset. I never yelled at my son. I said that I am not OK with it. Because it is a game that has prostitutes, drugs, theft, violence, etc... I have come to realize that the part that I am most not OK with is the degradation of women. So my son cried. I took away his favorite thing. My husband didn't back me. So I got pissed and called him a little boy. He didn't like that much. I SUCK. I did feel that way though. I have had a long conversation with him in the past about how the game is not appropriate for my children. IT TOTALLY SUCKS being the mean mom. It totally sucks parenting sometimes. I hope I survive the teen years. I have really good kids but I am worried. I was such a bad teen that my poor kids have a much tighter leash. **sigh**
I'm going to pick up my wet suit tonight. I have to swim in it for the next couple days. The reality of the triathlon being right around the corner is crazy. Am I ready? Well I am as ready as I am going to be. This is the first one. I will do it again next year and it will be much easier I'm sure with a year of fitness training.
I hope you are all well. Now I need to finish the curtains.
xo
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Good luck with your triathlon!
Be afraid, be very afraid.
I don't trust any of 'em as far as I can spit a very dead rat.
Food for thought. Why did Regan @ Rykiavik sign a treaty with the
Soviets stateing 'We'd be pals in the event of an E.T. threat.'????
I listen to 'em and Question everything.
Yes, and I'm still sending winning thoughts to you in the Race.