SA Wednesday

NMac2010 · March 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_sa-wednesday-28?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:5b84fe93-a07d-4d61-a313-fd41a07fcd2dPost:3e99ddae-b322-490f-84d8-12543bf41962">Re: SA Wednesday</a>:
[QUOTE]I am saying this as a general statement, because it certainly doesn't apply to every child, but I just feel like kids now are able to get away with way more than when I was growing up. I see tons of kids acting out and doing stuff that I never would've been allowed to do.
Posted by sparklingdiamond[/QUOTE]

<div>I've been in class and missed so much. </div><div>
</div><div>Totally agree, Sarah. DH is always saying "My dad would have backhanded us for that" when we see kids doing things in public. </div><div>
</div><div>Tiffany- Hahaha, I realize after I wrote it that it came across wrong. Makes me chuckle now though. I'm having a "child averse" week. </div>

danac2010 · March 2011

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[QUOTE]Totally off topic, but it is SA... Cake ball stuffed chocolate chip cookies. These will be made by me soon, diet be damned. :) <a href="http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html" rel='nofollow'>http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html</a>
Posted by lesalyric[/QUOTE]

Oh holy goodness!!!! I will be trying these VERY soon!!!

DFWIndian · March 2011

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[QUOTE]Totally off topic, but it is SA... Cake ball stuffed chocolate chip cookies. These will be made by me soon, diet be damned. :) <a href="http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html" rel='nofollow'>http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html</a>
Posted by lesalyric[/QUOTE]

That's just asking for trouble!

NMac2010 · March 2011

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[QUOTE]Totally off topic, but it is SA... Cake ball stuffed chocolate chip cookies. These will be made by me soon, diet be damned. :) <a href="http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html" rel='nofollow'>http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html</a>
Posted by lesalyric[/QUOTE]

<div>Hey don't you go to UTA? I think we need to meet on campus....if it happens to be the same day you make these, that would work for me...</div>

sparklingdiamond · March 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: SA Wednesday : When I was a kid we got spankings when we did something that was terribly inappropriate. There is a time and a place for spankings, but IMO kids are not getting enough of them these days because it is considered abuse. Just my .02...don't kill me for it.
Posted by angiehascandles[/QUOTE]

I totally agree! I got spankings when I was young but I didn't get many because I quickly learned to behave so I wouldn't get any. Now I think parents and people in general are overly worried about self-esteem. Yes, I know kid's self esteem is important but really?

sparklingdiamond · March 2011

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[QUOTE]Totally off topic, but it is SA... Cake ball stuffed chocolate chip cookies. These will be made by me soon, diet be damned. :) <a href="http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html" rel='nofollow'>http://www.sugarderby.com/blog/2011/2/27/cake-ball-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies.html</a>
Posted by lesalyric[/QUOTE]

Now I want these! I have never made cake balls before though.

NMac2010 · March 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: SA Wednesday : I totally agree! I got spankings when I was young but I didn't get many because I quickly learned to behave so I wouldn't get any. Now I think parents and people in general are overly worried about self-esteem. Yes, I know kid's self esteem is important but really?
Posted by sparklingdiamond[/QUOTE]

<div>
</div><div>My DH claims he's going to rule those kids with an iron fist, just like his father did. I call BS. I say he might, unless we have a girl. Then it's going to be completely up to me to discipline the child. </div>

sparklingdiamond · March 2011

Natalie- I know what you mean! I think its harder with a girl!

maglinpa · March 2011

I got my fair share of spankings as well. And, I too, learned quickly what the consequences were for not obeying the FIRST time I was asked to stop doing something. I love my parents dearly and in my day that's what they were, my parents. Not my friends, my parents. Children have plenty of friends, but they need parents to teach them what is acceptable and what is not. IMHO.

And, for those of you out there that are teachers...hats off to you!! You spend the majority of your waking hours dealing with some of these kids.

Paige

NMac2010 · March 2011

When did people start tip-toeing around their kids feelings so much? My mom never held back. Hahah. And I'm a better person for it.

MarieSD · March 2011

On the kids topic, recently FI and I were at the grocery store late at night, and witnessed a kid having a meltdown. That wasn't the notable part -- it was that his dad picked him up and took him out of the store! It was a young dad, too -- our age. I felt almost ... proud ... of that dad. I don't know, I can't describe it.

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: SA Wednesday : I think you are right. You can hardly do anything in public anymore. One nephew has his birth mark on the back of his neck and it looks like it could be a deep bruise from gripping his neck. We were in a restaurant once and the table next to us kept giving us the side eye, made comments and pointed & made me want to say something.
Posted by shortgirltx[/QUOTE]

This is completely off topic, but in college I got in a bad accident and had two black eyes for over six weeks. Everywhere I went, people stared and pointed, and I even got a few rude comments from strangers. (Notably, one woman wouldn't leave me alone because she was convinced I was in an abusive relationship and needed to be counseled out of it, and a man thought I was wearing weird makeup for attention and should be admonished for it). I couldn't believe how rude people were to me during that time.

danac2010 · March 2011

I agree that we are to easy on kids. I'm not saying we should beat them until the listen but some discipline is needed. My step daughter gets spankings at our house but at her mom's she is the boss. If she doesn't like what's for dinner her mom makes her whatever she wants. At our house it's eat what's on your plate or don't eat. She has made herself throw up before because she didn't want to eat it. She also knows that when she is told to straighten up or she gets a spanking that she will get a spanking and it will hurt. She has gotten much better since DH and I went to our marriage counseling and the pastor told him he had to start diciplining her before it gets to late.

I also a firm believer that someone has to lose. Not everyone can be a winner. The sports for the younger ones these days are a joke. No one loses, everyone gets a trophy and yeah everyone is a winner. That is not how the real world. Someone always loses. If we teach them this earlier it won't be so hard for them when they actually lose at something. Losing just teaches you what not to do next time. It's a learning tool. My team lost every game one season. We decided as a team we weren't going to lose the next season and we worked our butts off during off season. We won all but 3 games the next season. It made us stronger!

serlace · March 2011

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[QUOTE] I also a firm believer that someone has to lose. Not everyone can be a winner. The sports for the younger ones these days are a joke. No one loses, everyone gets a trophy and yeah everyone is a winner. That is not how the real world. Someone always loses. If we teach them this earlier it won't be so hard for them when they actually lose at something. Losing just teaches you what not to do next time. It's a learning tool. My team lost every game one season. We decided as a team we weren't going to lose the next season and we worked our butts off during off season. We won all but 3 games the next season. It made us stronger!
Posted by danac2010[/QUOTE]

Oh my gosh, this. Not everyone gets a trophy. If you lose, you lose. You learn and grow from it and move on. What happens when they get into the real world and some other candidate is picked over them for a job? Where's the trophy in that?

NMac2010 · March 2011

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[QUOTE] What happens when they get into the real world and some other candidate is picked over them for a job? Where's the trophy in that?
Posted by serlace[/QUOTE]

So I just responded to this and it posted it on a thread in SB. Whoa. Anyway... What I said was... What happens is their life is over and they go into therapy.

Tiffany618 · March 2011

I'm starting to think this whole "surprising" my DH with a new bigg-er TV for his birthday was a bad idea.

I can't seem to decide on anything, at all.

danac2010 · March 2011

I agree that they treat it like the end of the world. I told DH that since step daughter is older she needs to learn she can't win at everything so when we play games with her we let her win a few just so she'll keep playing but we make her play by the rules and if she loses she loses. We are teaching her that if you play by the rules and try your best yes you lost but you did it the right way and keep at it and you will win and then we let her win if she sticks to the rules. Operation is the newest game we are hooked on and sometimes we will purposely hit the side so it buzzes and she wins but if she hits the side her turn is over and that is that. Whoever has the most pieces wins. Plain and simple!

She isn't allowed to play sports right now since she is struggling in school but I really want to find a team that doesn't play the everyone is a winner game. May have to wait a few more years.

juliebug1997 · March 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: SA Wednesday : Oh my gosh, this. Not everyone gets a trophy. If you lose, you lose. You learn and grow from it and move on. What happens when they get into the real world and some other candidate is picked over them for a job? Where's the trophy in that?
Posted by serlace[/QUOTE]
This reminds me of "Meet the Fockers". "They give trophies for 10th place?" AND, one of my kids several years ago was claiming that the school was turning the students into communists because they only get ribbons at Field Day for participating now. I laughed my butt off.

juliebug1997 · March 2011

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[QUOTE]I'm starting to think this whole "surprising" my DH with a new bigg-er TV for his birthday was a bad idea. I can't seem to decide on anything, at all.
Posted by Tiffany618[/QUOTE]
Tiffany,
The only thing I regret about our TV is that we can't directly hook the Wii up to it. Other than that, it is an awesome TV and I love watching it.

shortgirltx · March 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: SA Wednesday : Where's the trophy in that?
Posted by serlace[/QUOTE]

I'm sure the mom has several stashed in her purse to hand out during times like this.

I had a mother of a 28 year old calling on his behalf to find out how he should apply to college. <u>28</u>.

angiehascandles · March 2011

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[QUOTE] I also a firm believer that someone has to lose. Posted by danac2010[/QUOTE]

My step son played flag football last year and the team was not a winning team so he wanted to quit and we told him he couldn't quit something he started he has to see it through until the end. But then in the end everyone got a stinking trophy. Step son even cries when he doesn't win at a video game that he is playing alone, so I make him stop playing it. My daughter perfectly fine with losing now and again.

bsn1752 · March 2011

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: SA Wednesday : I'm sure the mom has several stashed in her purse to hand out during times like this. I had a mother of a 28 year old calling on his behalf to find out how he should apply to college. 28 .
Posted by shortgirltx[/QUOTE]

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Tiffany618 · March 2011

Julie - I went to look at it at lunch today. I love the picture but I'm not 100% sold on the frame around it. Weird, I know.

It's all fancy looking, which is nice....but since it is going above our fireplace mantle I was thinking something more understated where it would just look like a frame when it is turned off.

serlace · March 2011

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[QUOTE]Julie - I went to look at it at lunch today. I love the picture but I'm not 100% sold on the frame around it. Weird, I know. It's all fancy looking, which is nice....but since it is going above our fireplace mantle I was thinking something more understated where it would just look like a frame when it is turned off.
Posted by Tiffany618[/QUOTE]

They make TVs now so when you turn them off they reflect - just like a real mirror. They look really cool. But, I'm sure they cost close to an arm and a leg and maybe a few fingers from the remaining hand.

danac2010 · March 2011

Tiffany we have 4 Samsung flat screens in our house. We love them. My parents have the Sanyo but I don't like the frame. The picture is great. Not a lot of help but just throwing that out there for ya. We have 2 32", 1 52" and a 19".

sparklingdiamond · March 2011

I agree with not giving everyone a trophy. Like people have said, that's not what happens in the real world. When you have to go get a job, you have to do your job and if you screw up its your fault. No one is going to pick up the pieces for you and you aren't going to always get everything right. People are just so willing to hand their kids everything and not make them work for anything.

KendallandAlbert · March 2011

Only have a few minutes today on here so I haven't been able to read/reply to any. Just stopping in to say we are about to leave to book our venue. Eeeee I am so excited. Then back to hell, i mean Gym for another hour of cardio

I am so sore from the buttkicking I got yesterday. I don't know if I will survive today!

sparklingdiamond · March 2011

Kendall- YAY for booking the venue!!

danac2010 · March 2011

This is for my sister but YEAH she finally got a job. She hasn't been looking as long as others but she was about to lose her apartment and job if she didn't find something. She interviewed today and the guy offered it on spot. Yeah for her!!

NMac2010 · March 2011

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[QUOTE]I love how helpful we are. No matter how many times we gripe about brides who post and run or post without reading our super-helpful sticky, we are always there to offer advice to whatever panicked sweet thing comes our way.
Posted by mrsamandamiller[/QUOTE]

<div>I'm guilty of that. I'm usually really willing to offer advice unless the person just seems like a complete idiot. I hate when people post and run though. </div>

NMac2010 · March 2011

We had a discussion about culture and diversity in one of my classes today, and some kid literally said "I don't like mexicans".

I think almost everyone's jaw's dropped. I know mine did.

I know people have ethnic biases, but holy crap, don't just openly say it out loud like that. In an openly culturally diverse class with several hispanic students.

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