Here's the bulletin board/virtual refrigerator door/etc. for showing and telling about accomplishments you're proud of. Your art. Your graduation. Your promotion. The garden you just planted. Your kid's karate trophy. You get the idea...
this is the bragging topic. You might have better luck if you posted here:
http://www.dead.net/forum/your-own-storefront
My grateful hubby Ken bought me a beautiful diamond ring for Christmas and our 20th year together!! I love him so much, what a grate surprise!!! Peace all!!
I dont sound my own horn too much but I am going to. I became a single parent of three teenagers in April of '06. I have really no support except myself. My kids were afraid that i would send them away. Instead, I paid for the funeral of my ex--their mother--and then promptly resigned from a high paying union position in order to spend more time at home.
I now work the assembly line, which sucks, and earn less then before. However, my kids' grades have gone up and they now are preparing for college. I have three rules in my house:
1. Must get good grades
2. No cops
3. Everyone hates Norte Dame--I'm a Michigan man.
Everyting else is open for discussion. I encourage my kids to speak their mind and I include them in decisions that effect them. My family does not agree with my methods but my folks sure didn't write the book on parenting. I may not like how my kids express theirselves, but my method works. So that is my song. As unconvential as I am my kids are becoming fine people.
I have no opinion as to the football, but the rest sounds good to me. Your kids are lucky to have you.
Thanks a lot, I do appreicate the compliment. Tghe luck is actually all mine, I could not ask for better kids. Heck, I could not ask for better people whio just happen to be my kids. In fact, I'm waiting on my daughter to go to the store with her. She is having some friends over for NYE and because she is who she is and her friends are who they are--I am stepping out tonight for the first NYE in a few years. As I say the luck is all mine.
My wife, Rita Hurault, and I have a joint photo show called "Water Textures" at the Nomad Cafe in Oakland CA all this month (January 2008). We got a "Don't miss" in today's San Francisco Chronicle 96 Hours magazine. One of Rita's photos is included (click on the thumbnail to enlarge), and it looks great!
Here's a link to all the images on flickr - but you really need to see 'em printed up real nice on the wall!
BTW, the photos were printed by Barry Toranto at WIGT in Mill Valley CA, and mounted by Shawn Conte at Dimitroff's Custom Framing in Tiburon CA.
Nice work there Sak. Been a S/D since 1993. Good relations with x. I have 2 teenage daughters 16 and 18. 16 yr old in USA Futures, ( Pre US Olympic Program for Field Hockey) She is also a honors student. Her top honor however occured this fall when she went to meet her friends and found one of them passed out. She called hers sister and her B/F and they got her to hospital before serious damage. We had talked about these kind of situations when they were younger. Oh, and both of my daughters followed your rule. They would not answer any questions about location of gathering. Told them to be concerned about their friend and not police. Her parents were very grateful to my girl. Oh and my 18 year old is in the NHS, a Peer Leader and Varsity athlete. My friends say I need a paternity test because they couldn't possibly be mine!!!
and heatwarming to hear how cool teenagers can be, for once, Cub42 and Sak. My own kids are gettng closer to that every year-so really appreciate reading how others get along!!!!!!!! Am less worried about my daughter, who was born a wise old woman in a tiny body, but my son has his struggles with moods and self-assurance already. As this IS the bragging thread, will tell a short story about what I meant about my daughter. Both kids were in a tiny grade school in a small German village. Grades 1-4 had only 80 kids total, so everyone knew everybody. My son picked his next school in another town, where none of his friends were going. Was also a gigantic school, with 6 5th grade classes of over 30 kids a piece. As starting date grew near, my son got nerveous and shy. Is normal. I was trying to explain to him that sure he would find friends as "he is a cool guy" and stuff like that. Didn't work. My daughter overheard one of these conversations-looked at her brother with her big green eyes, and said "But Callan, so many kids is just great! You have more chances to find someone you REALLY like, instead of having to play with whoever is around, like in Hüttenfeld" Is my girl- simple and to the heart of the matter. Her one comment worked to console her brother, while all of my efforts did NOT. Or another one, just recently. She got the best grade in the class on her English test (no wonder, as she was raised bilingual). One of her "friends" was envious and calling her bad names. Then a few days later, this girl started to say "Eeew, go away, you are gross, your fingernails are dirty." and wouldn't play with my daughter anymore. Imena's comment to me was "I don't think is about my fingernails, Mama, I think is about the test." then she said "I like to get good grades for ME, and don't care what the others say. Is their problem" She is 10 btw.
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