I bet she'd be the type who'd get a cat and force it onto a vegan diet.
saying the words cool if you’re thirty and over
Okay, I'm gonna give her that one! We are of the generation where "cool" was the thing to say when we were kids, and so we've grown up with it. The modern equivalent would be...uh...what's teen slang today? Anyway, us using it would sound like we're trying too hard. It's a great way to annoy today's teens though. :D
cutting your hair
As Mary Anne found out the hard way.
The only reason she’s a vegetarian is because she dislikes the taste of red meat.
Chicken, pork, seafood.
Can you believe her nerve, talking to her dogs?
The NERVE! Thinking her dogs might actually enjoy the sound of her voice! I guess they read her mind for commands and stuff.
Dawn bitches because it’s not like the dogs can understand her or answer her back, so what’s the point?
Like hell they don't! Not only do they learn words, but they learn tone!!
Kristy wants to know if her kids are good enough to have a game against some kids from a town called New Hope.
If the Bashers were a team like the Krushers, sure. Kristy really dropped the ball by having a team with toddlers who should be using T's play scored games against kids who could be in Little League. Even if the Bashers are good, kind kids, for young children, ALWAYS losing and being shown up by other kids is a great way to destroy their desire to keep trying. Yes, kids need to earn that you have to practice to get better, but the way to learn that is by having the chance to win sometimes instead of ALWAYS losing. Among us adults, who wants to keep trying at something we ALWAYS lose at?
I always thought a good leader would be willing to at least listen to other ideas and work with the group. Kristy is the type to dictate what everyone does and bully them into doing it. She wouldn’t be willing to listen to other ideas or other opinions.
I'm scared right now because we are so close to having President Drumpf.
Do they just flip through the notebook and skim all the entries until they see a mention of the toilet monster? I’m just imagining them looking through the notebook trying to find the entry and someone being like, “Why don’t you just ask Kristy?” I’m not sure how the notebook is organized.
I recently pondered this, but can't remember if I wrote it in a reply, or kept it in my head. It would make more sense to keep a file on each kid, and to make a note about things like that in each child's file.
Mrs. Mancusi calls to say that she and her husband are going on a trip and need a pet sitter.
This really doesn't work. As the pet-person of three dogs and two cats, having someone come over once or twice a day for a quick walk doesn't cut it. You want a pet-sitter for more than a couple cats? You need to have someone stay at your home. My family wants to take a vacation this month, but haven't managed to find anyone available to stay at our home, only someone who can stop by a couple times a day. Guess who isn't going on vacation this month.
My dog also goes nuts when he hears someone at the door.
Two of our dogs are about 65 pounds each, and the third and newest is a whopping 7 pounds. Tiny thing. The big girls used to go nuts and bark like hell. But they trained the newest one. Now the little one barks her bitty head off, and the big girls follow behind and clearly accept the credit for the noise. :D
I’d be pretty annoyed if I hired a sitter for my dog and they decided to invite a kid over to my house to play with my dog while I’m not there.
I don't mind. I trust people I have critter-sit to determine if a kid they want to bring will be fine with the animals. If I can't trust someone to use good judgement there, I can't trust them with five animals.
I’m imagining next time he’ll write, “Free Candy,” on the windows, and Claudia will run to get in the car.
Was stranger danger a big thing when these books were published?
Kindergarten Cop came out in 1990. Watch it. That'll answer your question.
But oh, I can't stand how they say "ore-gone." It's like body organ, or pipe organ. When Bernie Sanders was here a few weeks back and said "ore-gone," we corrected him. :D
She’d probably decide that all the animals should be vegetarians.
DOGS actually can be vegetarians. Cats are obligate carnivores. Also our minds think alike. :D
They also say that Cheryl will turn up soon, but it’s obvious they’re worried.
That's an awfully casual way to act. When one of my dogs went missing a couple weeks ago, we were out looking for her immediately, and checking Craigslist and the Humane Society's lost and found. We only relaxed when her picture went up on the HS's site. It was after hours though. But still. "Oh, i'm sure she'll turn up" is not how you react to a beloved pet going missing!
And Jordan is eating peanut butter and ketchup.
I just tried it so you don't have to. I couldn't swallow it.
Sharon just knocks the crumbs to the floor when she wipes the counter.
I do this. And then I sweep.
They think the car belongs to a child kidnapper and vow to talk about it at the next meeting and go over stranger danger with the kids.
First, of course they don't mention this to any adults. Second, stranger-danger doesn't really exist. Statistically, our kids are safer with strangers than they are with our partners, siblings, etc. The overwhelming majority of kidnappings are parental, and the vast majority of molestations and killings are also by relatives or other adults we know and trust. :( It's extremely rare that a stranger does anything. Yes, it happens, but it's rare.
Kristy tells the kids that some rival baseball team wants to have a game with the Bashers and the Krushers. The Bashers and Krushers will form one team. Only the older kids will be eligible to play, because Bart and Kristy want to win.
OH! I think the other team was the Bashers. I don't know when in the general storyline this book takes place. Depending on how good the other team is, the Krushers and Bashers should form a second team so that the littlest ones don't have to sit on the bench the entire game.
Mallory looks fed up and drained at the end of the day because Claire is still screaming.
Well, with cats, you can have someone come over once or twice a day if you're gone for a week or more. Cats can manage themselves. Dogs? Not so much. I leave my cats alone with a feeder and multiple water bowls for days at a time, they amuse themselves. Dogs have to go to Mom and Dad's or they have to come with me. (The cats are mostly just peeved if I come back and have the dogs with me. They're hoping someday I'll just leave the dogs.)
Exactly. Cats, even clingy cats, can do a little. One of my cats is a loner, but she'd still need her litter handled every couple days. My other cat is indoor/outdoor, and he'd be pissed to be forced to stay inside, but he'd live for a week.
Dogs, even paper-trained dogs (my little 7-pounder won't actually go potty outside since even short grass brushes her bum, and she doesn't like that, and so she only uses wee-pads), absolutely need more than two quick walks a day. In some circumstances, when the weather is right, dogs can be let out in the morning, and let back in at night, and no contact otherwise, but even that's really iffy. Our back yard is like a small fenced forest, but I'd still hesitate to leave my dogs for even one full morning-to-night day, much less overnight. The thought of expecting them to be okay with only a couple short WALKS a day makes my heart hurt.
Yeah, some dogs, but I would be so paranoid either the dogs would get out or someone would steal them!
Cats is cats. I have one who barely tolerates me and he's lived indoors for years now. The other three mostly need someone to give them food and pick up their poop once in a while.
I bet she'd be the type who'd get a cat and force it onto a vegan diet.
saying the words cool if you’re thirty and over
Okay, I'm gonna give her that one! We are of the generation where "cool" was the thing to say when we were kids, and so we've grown up with it. The modern equivalent would be...uh...what's teen slang today? Anyway, us using it would sound like we're trying too hard. It's a great way to annoy today's teens though. :D
cutting your hair
As Mary Anne found out the hard way.
The only reason she’s a vegetarian is because she dislikes the taste of red meat.
Chicken, pork, seafood.
Can you believe her nerve, talking to her dogs?
The NERVE! Thinking her dogs might actually enjoy the sound of her voice! I guess they read her mind for commands and stuff.
Dawn bitches because it’s not like the dogs can understand her or answer her back, so what’s the point?
Like hell they don't! Not only do they learn words, but they learn tone!!
Kristy wants to know if her kids are good enough to have a game against some kids from a town called New Hope.
If the Bashers were a team like the Krushers, sure. Kristy really dropped the ball by having a team with toddlers who should be using T's play scored games against kids who could be in Little League. Even if the Bashers are good, kind kids, for young children, ALWAYS losing and being shown up by other kids is a great way to destroy their desire to keep trying. Yes, kids need to earn that you have to practice to get better, but the way to learn that is by having the chance to win sometimes instead of ALWAYS losing. Among us adults, who wants to keep trying at something we ALWAYS lose at?
I always thought a good leader would be willing to at least listen to other ideas and work with the group. Kristy is the type to dictate what everyone does and bully them into doing it. She wouldn’t be willing to listen to other ideas or other opinions.
I'm scared right now because we are so close to having President Drumpf.
Do they just flip through the notebook and skim all the entries until they see a mention of the toilet monster? I’m just imagining them looking through the notebook trying to find the entry and someone being like, “Why don’t you just ask Kristy?” I’m not sure how the notebook is organized.
I recently pondered this, but can't remember if I wrote it in a reply, or kept it in my head. It would make more sense to keep a file on each kid, and to make a note about things like that in each child's file.
Mrs. Mancusi calls to say that she and her husband are going on a trip and need a pet sitter.
This really doesn't work. As the pet-person of three dogs and two cats, having someone come over once or twice a day for a quick walk doesn't cut it. You want a pet-sitter for more than a couple cats? You need to have someone stay at your home. My family wants to take a vacation this month, but haven't managed to find anyone available to stay at our home, only someone who can stop by a couple times a day. Guess who isn't going on vacation this month.
My dog also goes nuts when he hears someone at the door.
Two of our dogs are about 65 pounds each, and the third and newest is a whopping 7 pounds. Tiny thing. The big girls used to go nuts and bark like hell. But they trained the newest one. Now the little one barks her bitty head off, and the big girls follow behind and clearly accept the credit for the noise. :D
I’d be pretty annoyed if I hired a sitter for my dog and they decided to invite a kid over to my house to play with my dog while I’m not there.
I don't mind. I trust people I have critter-sit to determine if a kid they want to bring will be fine with the animals. If I can't trust someone to use good judgement there, I can't trust them with five animals.
I’m imagining next time he’ll write, “Free Candy,” on the windows, and Claudia will run to get in the car.
I laughed so hard that I now feel bad.
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Kindergarten Cop came out in 1990. Watch it. That'll answer your question.
But oh, I can't stand how they say "ore-gone." It's like body organ, or pipe organ. When Bernie Sanders was here a few weeks back and said "ore-gone," we corrected him. :D
She’d probably decide that all the animals should be vegetarians.
DOGS actually can be vegetarians. Cats are obligate carnivores. Also our minds think alike. :D
They also say that Cheryl will turn up soon, but it’s obvious they’re worried.
That's an awfully casual way to act. When one of my dogs went missing a couple weeks ago, we were out looking for her immediately, and checking Craigslist and the Humane Society's lost and found. We only relaxed when her picture went up on the HS's site. It was after hours though. But still. "Oh, i'm sure she'll turn up" is not how you react to a beloved pet going missing!
And Jordan is eating peanut butter and ketchup.
I just tried it so you don't have to. I couldn't swallow it.
Sharon just knocks the crumbs to the floor when she wipes the counter.
I do this. And then I sweep.
They think the car belongs to a child kidnapper and vow to talk about it at the next meeting and go over stranger danger with the kids.
First, of course they don't mention this to any adults. Second, stranger-danger doesn't really exist. Statistically, our kids are safer with strangers than they are with our partners, siblings, etc. The overwhelming majority of kidnappings are parental, and the vast majority of molestations and killings are also by relatives or other adults we know and trust. :( It's extremely rare that a stranger does anything. Yes, it happens, but it's rare.
Kristy tells the kids that some rival baseball team wants to have a game with the Bashers and the Krushers. The Bashers and Krushers will form one team. Only the older kids will be eligible to play, because Bart and Kristy want to win.
OH! I think the other team was the Bashers. I don't know when in the general storyline this book takes place. Depending on how good the other team is, the Krushers and Bashers should form a second team so that the littlest ones don't have to sit on the bench the entire game.
Mallory looks fed up and drained at the end of the day because Claire is still screaming.
I feel so much for Mommory.
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Dogs, even paper-trained dogs (my little 7-pounder won't actually go potty outside since even short grass brushes her bum, and she doesn't like that, and so she only uses wee-pads), absolutely need more than two quick walks a day. In some circumstances, when the weather is right, dogs can be let out in the morning, and let back in at night, and no contact otherwise, but even that's really iffy. Our back yard is like a small fenced forest, but I'd still hesitate to leave my dogs for even one full morning-to-night day, much less overnight. The thought of expecting them to be okay with only a couple short WALKS a day makes my heart hurt.
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Cats is cats. I have one who barely tolerates me and he's lived indoors for years now. The other three mostly need someone to give them food and pick up their poop once in a while.
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