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Or prison, eg Madoff.

board dead
 

everyone solved all of their kid questions?

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We still have that little issue, npi, out there, but I told your wife to save the money on the paternity tests. I think we know what's what ;);):)

Re: General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.
 

yes or no, kids a positive or a negative?

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Kids = A positive. Does that mean I can't complain about parenthood sometimes?

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Doesn't this depend on the kids? I mean, my offspring are wonderful, but I often worry about the neighbors'. And the notion of Slave, Jr. does leave me with a bit of trepidation.

http://sidoxia.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/minime.jpg

As to your kids, while I know I've heard Justice Holmes-style concerns, I also know that there is a tendancy for IQ to move toward the mean, so I don't share those worries.

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I love mine. They're both a lot of fun and veru interesting in their own way. What's more, aside from the pets, they are the only two creatures on the planet who really love me.

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All things considered, a net positive.

S_A_M

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You're not a CPA, yes?

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Birthday present help needed
 

My 7 yo niece is having her birthday and I need some gift help.

I can't get her what she really wants (pretty much anything Pokemon) because my sister wants to cut down on the Pokemon paraphenalia (and probably because the older sister will try to snooker the birthday girl out of all the good cards).

I'd also rather not get her any dolls because she's got so many. Any good ideas?

Re: Birthday present help needed
 

Art supplies.

There are these, because who doesn't remember Linoleum block printing with fondness? (supervision required):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RdKnMUxvAH...320/V-Tool.jpg

Or you could go with these, which are always a hit (for molding body parts):

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

Lots of other ideas here:

http://www.utrechtart.com/eco-green-art-supplies.cfm

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I remember that unless the chisels are sharp it's hard to do. And if they're sharp it's easy to slice off a finger.

Re: Birthday present help needed
 

the chisels are a little too scary but the art supplies are a great idea. She's very creative and already draws better than I do.

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Starting at about that age, my oldest has really enjoyed a shopping trip with her cool aunt from NYC.

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sharp chisels! great idea! but 7 is old enough for a bag of glass shards, isn't it?

http://excellentnotion.files.wordpre...s-mirror-1.jpg

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Happy fun ball! It's happy. It's fun.

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Does she have a DS or Wii? You could get her a new game.

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I'm really not sure what you'd do with the glass shards. If they were colored, at least, you could make a stained glass window.

Now that WOULD be fun for a 7 year old, wouldn't it?

https://www.creativeglassguild.co.uk...ss-starter.jpg

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Women -- looking for new and interesting ways to subtly judge each other as mothers? Science has a new breakthrough for you: "Your birth method left your child insufficiently coated with a glaze of vaginal bacteria!"

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RT and I have been discussing this board and the failure it has become because of all the poor advice. As you may know, it began as a place for bilmore to share advice as he was the only one with grown children. Eventually the mantle was handed to NotBob and me.

The purpose of the board was to allow any parents to ask a questino then NB and/or I would solve the problem. NB was good, but I was voted most helpful in the end.

At any rate, several socks with young children have begun posting their confused thoughts, and it makes the board of questionable value. To address the problem, we are looking for software that will only allow socks other than me to post questions. Then my advice can come across cleaner.

We will keep you advised as this effort procedes.

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I apologized to my family for the time I took on a Saturday to read this.

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If we could rely on your implied promise we could report to the board that a volume problem has been solved. I know you care about the board. Can we count on you to do your part?

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My rebooted primary sockcarnation is more mature. Perhaps I should take over NB's mod duties here?:confused::confused:

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This is the worst new software upgrade since Vista.

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Still working out the kinks [:o:o:o]

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Please issue a bug fix ASAP. It's totally unstable.

Re: General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.
 

Speaking of which, does anyone else have issues with the Daily Beast's app for the iPhone?:confused::(

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Not I.

Pencils
 

We have just gotten the enormous list of supplies required for our child's class in September (will all that stuff fit in his desk?), and I have a complaint. I file it here because no one would bother with it elsewhere.

The teacher specifically requests two packages #2 Dixon-Ticonderoga pencils. Now, I have nothing against #2 pencils, but I buy my pencils in bulk from the art supply store, mostly Faber Castells and Generals, because the last thing anyone needs are crappy pencils. Indeed, my son usually prefers the Generals woodless, which are not cheap but do a much better job than a Dixon-Ticonderoga ever would.

I also hand them out sparingly. A kid should learn to keep their pencils, especially when they are good ones. TWO WHOLE PACKAGES! This encourages profligacy. That's pencil craziness.

It's like people just don't appreciate good writing implements any more. I will make sure my son always has a couple of Faber Castells and a Generals woodless, but nothing more and nothing lesser. Should I paint them yellow to make the teacher happy?

Re: Pencils
 

Your firm must be hurting to be worried about pencil profligacy.

But a propos of this, when I was in fifth grade I went to a school where for the outrageous tuition they threw in "free" pencils. You got one at a time. There was a "pencil graveyard" where you could "bury" your old pencil when it got short, and you were issued a reincarnated pencil that was nice and long. As you might imagine a competition ensued to have the shortest pencil possible. People were grinding their fingers in the pencil sharpener so that they could turn in nothing more than an eraser, metal band, and wood/graphite point.

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But were they good pencils?

Probably not, if they had an eraser attached by a metal band. Don't get me going on bad erasers.

http://cdn.dickblick.com/items/204/6...81-2-3ww-l.jpg

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in law school ifound a pencil with the lord's prayer in a gutter. it became my exam pencil- by the last term it was 2 inches long. All that was left was:



Our Father, w

Hallowed be t

thy kingdom

on earth as i

give us this d

and forgive us

as we forgive

and lead us not

but deliver us




AMEN

but the magic still flowed

Re: Pencils
 

#2 Dixon-Ticonderoga. School standard for years. There may have been some others, but these were standard issue.

http://www.prang.com/Images/tic/tic-735x31.png

Some of the erasers broke off. But we also got those standard pink ones, and plenty of the eraser wigs.

http://www.jtdraws.com/images/standa...k%20eraser.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qmLMxcfuA7...ink+eraser.JPG

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That's a lot to fit on a pencil. Why hasn't some enterprising company figured out how to put the UCC or the Rule against Perpetuities on a pencil? You know, for, um, reference.

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word. plus under obama-care probably it'd be illegal now to just put the one prayer like you'd need to add the bhagdava gitas and those Jew broken-toe things.

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Scratchy pencils with uneven lines and little eraser bits all over your torn gray paper. I'll bet they gave you lousy paper, too, and bic pens.

This is why kids can't doodle for shit any more.

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Standard pencils so no one worries whose pencil is whose. Otherwise, the teacher would probably request that you put kid's name on every pencil.

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Easily solved with tooth marks.

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No pens. Colored pencils.