So, we've been having talks with Miss Kid, and her teachers, about her not turning work in, or turning it in incomplete. Kid doesn't seem interested in fixing it. The teachers can't do much else other than lower her grade. Kid has not found her science notebook that is a hefty part of her grade, nor has she found the homework she claims to have ( Read more... )

So last year for her birthday Miss Kid asked everybody to donate to a fund she was putting together to pay for a trip with several of her fellow classmates to the Grand Canyon during the summer of 2011. Now good on her for starting to save up for it early ( Read more... )

As we know it's never a good weekend unless I piss somebody off ( Read more... )

Okay, I know I should just keep my mouth shut and not say anything. I know that I know nothing because I've never spawned a mini me. But I have dealt with kids for the past week and I'm seeing a lot, possibly more than some of the parents because I'm actually, you know, watching the kids and interacting with them rather than foisting them off on ( Read more... )

So, those dreams about D (the abusive ex)? Haven't gone away. Though there is a specific trigger that does seem to be causing them. That trigger would be any time we have Miss Kid for more than a couple of hours ( Read more... )

Last week there was a conversation about what's appropriate for a child, age 8, to read ( Read more... )