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LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
well, you opened a can'o'worms with that one! :-)
chris :-) |
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Students - was LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
Oh, never! They are not naughty enough to warrant 'gator
discipline!! -- Cheryl & the Cats _ _ _ _ _ _ ( Y ) ( Y ) ( Y ) ~ ~ ~ Enness Boofhead Donut Now in hibernation with a wake-up call for Spring! http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "Polly Esther" wrote in message k.net... : Don't even think about sending us your students. Polly : : "Cats" wrote You might just be surprised in the mail one day!! ROFL : : : |
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LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
I live on a large block with lots of yard space and the
neighbours on either side asked if their kids could continue to play in the front part of the yard as they had when the block was empty. I said sure - as long as they understand the rules. Stay off the garden, don't run around the house area (a bit dangerous), no throwing stones, don't tease the cats. Everything was fine but then new neighbours arrived on one side. When the kids bring me my mail (to save me hobbling down to the mail box) they get a candy - if it is not right before a meal time and their mums say it is OK. New kid comes to the door and asks for candy, drops wrappers on the ground and throws stones. I corrected him very politely in front of the others and he ran home to tell his "dad" (actually "partner" of mum of course) and "dad" came racing over and practically put his fist through my glass door, shouting "Don't pick on my kid". Sadly I haven't seen any of the kids for over a week now so I imagine that the obnoxious neighbours have told the nice neighbours some dreadful tale about me abusing children. I will drop in and see T and straighten out any misunderstanding, but I feel sorry for the child of the other parents. What chance do they have with such an example? He now believes that he can do whatever he wants and that no-one will stop him because his "dad" will threaten them if they do. ((sigh)) -- Cheryl & the Cats _ _ _ _ _ _ ( Y ) ( Y ) ( Y ) ~ ~ ~ Enness Boofhead Donut Now in hibernation with a wake-up call for Spring! http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "blackrosequilts" wrote in message ... : Valerie in FL wrote: : I got bonked on the head with a spoon wielded by a 3-year-old in a : restaurant last week. I didn't even get an apology from her parents, so this : is absolutely a sore subject with me. : : That's outrageous. An unruly small kid hit me at a parish picnic, back : when my kids were small and I was holding a toy the kid thought was his : (but actually belonged to us). The mother didn't apologize. The : grandfather picked him up and the kid proceeded to pummel his : grandfather's bald pate. They made no attempt to control this violence. : Easy to see why the kid felt free to punch a strange adult. : : More recently, I have a new neighbor with an unruly toddler that hauled : off and hit my dog while my dog was playing with their new puppy (my dog : is still a puppy herself). Fortunately Rommi flinched away in time to : miss the full force of the blow, so she wasn't badly hurt, but at four : pounds, she's a tiny dog and even a small child can seriously injure : her. The mother did apologize, but she did absolutely nothing to : control her child. The kid ran around completely ignoring her. The : puppy is half husky and clearly of a naturally dominant disposition, and : she wasn't doing anything about that either. Gonna be interesting to : see how *that* plays out. : : -- : : blackrosequilts : My train of thought left the station without me. : : http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts : 2005 BOMs: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blackrosequilts/my_photos : : -------- __o : ----- -\. -------- __o : --- ( )/ ( ) ---- -\. : -------------------- ( )/ ( ) : ----------------------------------------- |
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Re "teaching", Michelle said:
You couldn't pay me enough to do that job. Funny. I'll take next to nothing. In a poor district. Trying to teach teenagers Shakespeare. But no one will hire me because I hugged a student and got fired for it. Some of us REALLY want to do it, but it's administrators and parents who want to demonize the TEACHER instead of the kids who keep us from being able to do what we love. Anastasia --still a bit bitter. |
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LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
Cats wrote:
I live on a large block with lots of yard space and the neighbours on either side asked if their kids could continue to play in the front part of the yard as they had when the block was empty. I said sure - as long as they understand the rules. Stay off the garden, don't run around the house area (a bit dangerous), no throwing stones, don't tease the cats. We hadn't lived here a week when some kid made himself at home in our back yard and tried to tell my youngest son he couldn't play there. Then he tried to tell me that since the people we bought the house from had told him he could play in the yard, I couldn't tell him not to. He was so shocked when I laid down the law that I'm not sure an adult had ever stood up to him before. But I know how to handle adolescent boys, having had plenty of my own. I sent him packing. He only tried to enter my yard one more time, and I was there to send him packing again. I never saw him again after that. Some kids. Sheesh. -- blackrosequilts My train of thought left the station without me. http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts 2005 BOMs: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blackrosequilts/my_photos -------- __o ----- -\. -------- __o --- ( )/ ( ) ---- -\. -------------------- ( )/ ( ) ----------------------------------------- |
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Students - was LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
Mine was just through here tonight. She said those scary words, "I was just
thinking". Actually she was 'just thinking' that I might like to go with her to the big, Big book store in Alabama to see what new quilting books were calling us. Ahhhh. What a relief. Polly "Cats" wrote Oh, never! They are not naughty enough to warrant 'gator discipline!! |
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For some kids a parent has to have a higher "unruly" tolerance than for others. It only took a few times for my girls to get the message that such behavior was inappropriate in a public place. Ash on the other hand is a problem. We don't want to always keep him home, because he will never learn then. However he does have a longer learning curve for such things because of the lack of communication and the socialization issues that most autistic kids have. It is always very wearing to take him out anywhere. He has a thing for textures, so he wants to touch absolutely everything. He also has that high pitched "autistic squeal" that can make people at the other end of a mall cringe. So far no public tantrums (touch wood), though I have wished we could just chain him to one of our waists or something while we are out. NightMist On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:21:26 GMT, "Batik Freak" wrote: Yes, it does mean they are unruly. Why do you think that allowing your children to roam and yell is ok? That's ridiculous. I don't go to a quilt store to listen to a kid scream. If you can't control 'em, keep 'em at home until you can. It's just not fair of parents to inflict their children on others, period. People go out to stores and such to ESCAPE their children sometimes, to have grown-up time for themselves. Other people just plain don't like ill-mannered children. If you take them in public it is your DUTY as a parent to keep them with you, quiet and well-behaved. This is the way one behaves properly in public, and to allow otherwise is bad teaching. L Anita said: If I may interject... is it so bad to bring : unruly children into a store? I mean, does : the fact that children roam, crawl, and yell : make them unruly? I do not mean to be : facetious (or maybe I am just being defensive), : but we often go to our LQS as a whole family. : DH sits on the floor and tries to keep the two : kids under control. But, kids crawl and roam. : Sometimes they yell. We do not permit them to : touch the fabric, walls, displays, anything. -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat. |
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LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
You can. Mothers only have two hands and that is not enough to keep a
little one (or more) safe when shopping. We had a leash - it looked very much like suspenders with a serious leash thing fixed to the back waist. That way, I could be somewhat sure that he wouldn't dart into the path of an oncoming car or stray from my side. That was more than 50 years ago but I don't remember a single soul being anything but wanting to know where a similar harness could be purchased. If anyone had accused me of cruel or inhuman treatment, we would have bonked them with a spoon. Polly "NightMist" wrote, in part So far no public tantrums (touch wood), though I have wished we could just chain him to one of our waists or something while we are out. |
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LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:21:26 GMT, "Batik Freak"
wrote: Yes, it does mean they are unruly. Why do you think that allowing your children to roam and yell is ok? That's ridiculous. I don't go to a quilt store to listen to a kid scream. If you can't control 'em, keep 'em at home until you can. It's just not fair of parents to inflict their children on others, period. People go out to stores and such to ESCAPE their children sometimes, to have grown-up time for themselves. Other people just plain don't like ill-mannered children. If you take them in public it is your DUTY as a parent to keep them with you, quiet and well-behaved. This is the way one behaves properly in public, and to allow otherwise is bad teaching. Ah well, we can never go out again, then! Pillbug emits a screech every now and then, which is his way of communicating. If he screams, of course we remove him. We have done so many times. But, he's a kid. He likes to roam around a store looking at everything (of course, he's *never* out of our sight), he doesn't touch anything, but every now and then he sees something that excites him and he gives a screech or two. The LQS staff like to talk to DH while he's holding Rocky and watching Pillbug, but we should not be going if we will be bothering the other customers. -- Anita -- |
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LQS Complaints--Other shoe; same foot.
NightMist wrote:
For some kids a parent has to have a higher "unruly" tolerance than for others. It only took a few times for my girls to get the message that such behavior was inappropriate in a public place. Ash on the other hand is a problem. We don't want to always keep him home, because he will never learn then. However he does have a longer learning curve for such things because of the lack of communication and the socialization issues that most autistic kids have. It is always very wearing to take him out anywhere. He has a thing for textures, so he wants to touch absolutely everything. He also has that high pitched "autistic squeal" that can make people at the other end of a mall cringe. So far no public tantrums (touch wood), though I have wished we could just chain him to one of our waists or something while we are out. NightMist G'day NightMist, Sometimes, it can help to have a Good Texture handy for the child to take refuge in. My DS used to *shriek* in shopping malls when he was a toddler. It wasn't until years later we discovered it was the muzak that upset him. Also the sound of the fluorescent lights. Anyway, I had a T-Shirt on which I had worked a cross stitch pattern in beads. The motif had that nice 'beady' feel to it and DS used to rub his hand over that for comfort. His shrieking level was noticeably lower when he had his his beads to rub. DS still has his various comfort things to do, even at thirty. One of them is *violent* hand-flapping. Thank goodness he's socially aware enough to do it in private. Mostly...! LOL! NB. How old is Ash? IME, it was worth pulling out all stops to find care for DS while I went shopping. He really couldn't cope with the sights and sounds of shopping malls until he was about ten or so. After that, he was fine. The only thing that really upsets him these days is balloons. He assumes every balloon can and will burst. It can be quite unusual to see a grown man sidling nervously away from a baby with a balloon in its hand. ROTFL! -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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