Adam, How had you planned on recreating all of these essential experiences for your children while home schooling them? Or was eventually sending them to public school always in the plans?
On Nov 29, 2007 2:15 AM, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They both hated it the first year (last year), which is exactly what I had > hoped for. > > They both learned very quickly how very un-special they are, and how they > better learn how to shut their mouths and get along, or else. Don't > appreciate home-cooked lunches? Then choke on a half-stale public school > sandwich. I bet next time you get an opportunity like homeschooling > you'll > really apply yourself, won't you? Yeah, I thought so. > > I wasn't about to raise a batch of spoiled-rotten suburbanite schmucks who > think the world revolves around them and that they don't have to work hard > and fast to survive. They needed to handle being made fun of and getting > into physical fights with much bigger kids and verbal tiffs and being > punished for things they didn't do. All extremely useful stuff for a > child > in their formative years, and no I'm not kidding about that. > > We coddle kids *WAAAAAAY* too much in this country these days. And we > make > them feel like they own the place. If I had ever talked to any adult the > way some of these kids talk to their excuses for parents, my father would > have beaten me like you wouldn't believe. > > No, these two are going to pack the gear and hump the line. That's for > damned sure. > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > President > Productivity Enhancement > > -- And all this could be Just a dream so it seems I was never much good at goodbye ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247170 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
