"I was going to meet a real TV star! Every week people all over the country watched P.S. 162 and every week they laughed at Waldo and his silly science. Hmm. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe Derek would be able to help me with my science homework."--*slams head on desk
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Part of being a dancer on stage is acting, complete with costumes. If any single character in this entire series should know that and really understand it, it's the one who's regularly on stage. So that's why Jessi get a mock-point. I could give a very slight pass to anyone else, but not to the person who is trained in ho to use stage makeup to different effects.
Stack the deck? Purposely get stuck on one of the gumdrop spots or whatever they're called where you stay stuck until you pull a certain color. (Though I think they changed those spots to miss one turn and it pisses me off.)
As a parent, I can answer this! When your kid isn't looking, you knock your piece back a little. There are some places on the board where it's easy to, by just moving your piece an inch, actually set your piece back 20 squares. You can also sneak a peak at the next card, and sneak the card under it so your kid gets the better card.
Basically it's just peeking at stuff and moving your piece back when they aren't looking. I once won Candy Land in 4 moves, but lied and said that a particular card meant I had to go to the beginning because my little girl would have been crushed. Kids need to learn to lose, and it's easier if they don't start out losing. I they have confidence they can win, that makes losses easier.
"When schools started telling kids to be passive when they're bullied, it got worse...I'm not so much supportive of fighting, but I sure as hell support letting kids defend themselves!"
Amen! I was bullied all through school, and I was so sick of my teachers telling me that if I ignored the bullies, they'd stop. Even as a small child, I was like, "No, you morons! That's not how it works! They're not going to magically become better people just because I sit there and take their abuse!" If you become a doormat, the bullies will take it as an invitation to keep doing what they're doing. But if you defend yourself, you're the one who gets punished. If I had a dollar for every time a teacher told me: "Well, I didn't see what they did, but I saw what YOU did," I'd have been able to hire someone else to go to school for me. A good chunk of the reason I wanted to go into teaching was to help put an end to that nonsense.
Pff, telling the bullied to ignore their tormentors is one thing. I was told, and this is a quote, "let them know they're hurting your feelings, they'll feel bad and stop". Because if there's one branch of humanity famous for its empathy it's sadistic adolescent sociopaths, and it's not as though hurting your feelings is the exact point of their assholish little lives... oh wait.
This, times a million! I hated school and bullying still has effects on my life. The worst was when my teacher made me SIT NEXT TO one of the main ones in class because she thought the fact that I was a 'good girl' would make him want to be a better person or some BS like that. Yeah....didn't work too well....
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this book sucks so hard. poor, poor derek. :(
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Basically it's just peeking at stuff and moving your piece back when they aren't looking. I once won Candy Land in 4 moves, but lied and said that a particular card meant I had to go to the beginning because my little girl would have been crushed. Kids need to learn to lose, and it's easier if they don't start out losing. I they have confidence they can win, that makes losses easier.
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Amen! I was bullied all through school, and I was so sick of my teachers telling me that if I ignored the bullies, they'd stop. Even as a small child, I was like, "No, you morons! That's not how it works! They're not going to magically become better people just because I sit there and take their abuse!" If you become a doormat, the bullies will take it as an invitation to keep doing what they're doing. But if you defend yourself, you're the one who gets punished. If I had a dollar for every time a teacher told me: "Well, I didn't see what they did, but I saw what YOU did," I'd have been able to hire someone else to go to school for me. A good chunk of the reason I wanted to go into teaching was to help put an end to that nonsense.
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I was told, and this is a quote, "let them know they're hurting your feelings, they'll feel bad and stop".
Because if there's one branch of humanity famous for its empathy it's sadistic adolescent sociopaths, and it's not as though hurting your feelings is the exact point of their assholish little lives... oh wait.
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