They made it home alive and relatively unscathed in the notoriously evil social department. No one was mean to them and the people in my second boy’s class were directed to fill each others buckets with nice words (actual mini buckets on every desk).
I guess I don’t need to rip them out of school and shelter them yet. It’s probably for the best since I’d never be able to find a babysitter while I’m at work.
My first experience with online auctions was when my husband came to me and told me he’d gone a little overboard on eBay and bid more than $100 on things. He only won one auction and since then we’ve both found the pitfalls associated with that type of site.
On the otherhand we’ve also discovered the benefits. This includes both buying and selling aspects of those services. It helps to start small and see how the site works and how well you work with it. Then you can increase your usage as your comfort level increases.
I just dropped my kids off at school for the first day of the year and I got misty as I left. I even had to wipe a tear from my eye in public. Ah, to return to those days of yesteryear and relive my youth.
NOT!!
I was actually thinking that it was pretty horrible of me as a human being to put my children through the same torture my parents put me through. Sure, I was a rotten child, but my kids don’t deserve this. They’re good people and they don’t deserve to find out that the ‘s’ word isn’t ‘stupid’ and that holding up your middle finger means something (according to my sister, holding up any of the fingers means something disgusting – just different disgusting things for each finger).
My kids do not deserve to be put in a place where ‘friend’ is defined as ‘a person who isn’t mean to me’ instead of ‘a person who likes me for me’.
And yet I let them go. I made them go….