"Temporary" Venting Thread - Page 23

***RÃan*** · 12-05-2005, 04:16 PM

I think the whole goal is to get kids (girls AND guys) to realize the down-side to the REALITIES of babies. And this flour thing helps, IMHO, as one who KNOWS the realities of babies. Now, IMO it's WORTH it to have babies

but it's critical to go into it knowing that it's not just all cooing little cute things - it's hard work sometimes! And MAJOR responsibility.

My friend's son is doing it now. His teacher saw him at a football game without his flour sack and he got marked down!

The last sane person · 12-05-2005, 04:45 PM

Haha,

Friend's son: Do de do de doo...gotta go for the touchdown!

Teacher: *from side line* Hey, that doesnt look like a regular foot ball...

*kid gets tackeld and there is a spectacular white dust cloud center field*

Friend's son: *cough sputter* wait, hang on, this isnt the ball, this's the baby thing!

Teacher: *notices* Okay, thats a flunk for you, rule number one in parenting. NO USING BABIES AS FOOTBALLS!

Freind's son: Awcrap.

***RÃan*** · 12-05-2005, 04:48 PM

Lol!!!!!!

**Nurvingiel** · 12-05-2005, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

Well think how youd feel if it was growing and cried and you had to change its... bag...

ROFL!

Tamuril, that really sucks. At least you can lip people off if they get all snarky about you being a teenage mom (dad?).

We had that as a class in my school, and I'm so glad I didn't take it. I didn't have time to take care of a computer baby, nor would I care to. I didn't have to take that class to think, "What the heck would a high school student want with a baby?"

The downside to the project is it still makes it seem easy to be a parent. All you need is time and to respond to the babies cries. If you drop it, no biggie, the computer just records it and you get marks off. A living being doesn't die or become injured. (Hopefully people do realize real babies are more complex, fragile, and difficult.)

The last sane person · 12-05-2005, 05:38 PM

I hold the same opinion! Unfortunatly I didnt have the option to turn it down.

Bombadillo · 12-05-2005, 09:55 PM

I did that project once in eighth grade. I wound up with triplets, but they were just eggs and not half as bad.

Later this year my developmental psychology class is going to use eggs also.

*general frustration with nagging and college applications*

The last sane person · 12-06-2005, 12:10 AM

Triplets? Whew, you musta been a proud papa...No wonder the mom let you take care of em!

Vent: AAAH! Cant speak, voice dead!

trolls' bane · 12-06-2005, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by The last sane person

Haha,

Friend's son: Do de do de doo...gotta go for the touchdown!

Teacher: *from side line* Hey, that doesnt look like a regular foot ball...

*kid gets tackeld and there is a spectacular white dust cloud center field*

Friend's son: *cough sputter* wait, hang on, this isnt the ball, this's the baby thing!

Teacher: *notices* Okay, thats a flunk for you, rule number one in parenting. NO USING BABIES AS FOOTBALLS!

Freind's son: Awcrap.

Here's a good one:
Teacher: ...and have to carry this around for three weeks.
Brendan: Over my dead body!

*holds match above can of Kerosene*

Teacher: ...
Class: ...
Everyone: This sucks.
Brendan: You tell me? It's only going to get worse--Ouch! *match burns fingers and is dropped.*
To be continued...

littleadanel · 12-06-2005, 02:22 PM

Mrrr. Grarr. I wish it would STOP raining. 'Tis winter, dammit! I don't mind the cold, give me snow!! I volunteer to shovel the path from the front door to the gate, just let it SNOW!!

brownjenkins · 12-06-2005, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by littleadanel

Mrrr. Grarr. I wish it would STOP raining. 'Tis winter, dammit! I don't mind the cold, give me snow!! I volunteer to shovel the path from the front door to the gate, just let it SNOW!!

do mine too!

we just got our first last week... two inches = pretty... two-feet (like some we got last year) = too much!

littleadanel · 12-06-2005, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by brownjenkins

do mine too!

I'm afraid I'm too, well, far to do that...

The last sane person · 12-06-2005, 02:31 PM

Ha! 2 FT? Thats nothing, mountains baby, thats where its at! I have gotten the science of shoveling down to an artform. Though now that i am sick, i have relegated that to my army of young cousins. Ah, good times.

Vent: Voice still dead.

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-06-2005, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The last sane person

Ha, utterly pointless assignment, unless it is to condition your arms. I failed that flour bag thing once, I fell asleep and my mother thought that was the flour for cooking that she bought. I had some very good pie that night, and wondered where my project was.

Right now I am taking some asprin and hot tea, it helps.

omg thats the funniest thing ever!!!! it is pointless but they have their reasons..mabye its to kill us with some slow torture of arms falling off syndrome. i asked my teacher if i could make cookies out of them but he said they need to be passed on to other people. i said one wont matter and he said no, you dont want to eat your baby's guts do you and i was like ITS JUST SOME FRICKING FLOUR and he was like my answer is no. i want to do it anyways no one will miss it.

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-06-2005, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

Yeah Im pretty sure eating your own child would hurt you when you are being graded on your motherly abilities...

yea if are getting graded pretty harshly actually. if you dont carry it around and put it on the floor in class you get reported to the teacher and they set up a abuse report. i dont like this idea but i decided i'd be a stay at home mum, but my parents made me go to school

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-06-2005, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Spock

I'm thinking then of the "live response babies" project they gave girls and boys who were in classes for prospective parents, when I was out west. You had to take care of it just like a child as it was programed to do all sorts of things at random.

Maybe the flower sack thing is a cheap version just to get one used to the fact that carrying around small children isn't all roses.

interesting project you had back then.....yes the flour sack is quite a cheap version of it but whatever...yes i babysit a baby and he is teething and it isnt pretty, usually the kid screams and i get such a headach!!!

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-06-2005, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

I think the whole goal is to get kids (girls AND guys) to realize the down-side to the REALITIES of babies. And this flour thing helps, IMHO, as one who KNOWS the realities of babies. Now, IMO it's WORTH it to have babies

but it's critical to go into it knowing that it's not just all cooing little cute things - it's hard work sometimes! And MAJOR responsibility.

My friend's son is doing it now. His teacher saw him at a football game without his flour sack and he got marked down!

yes it is a major responsiblity but i gets in the way. now i babysit babies and i know what its like. its hard and they cry and give you a headach but thats not all that you do. i already know the realities of having kids( no i dont have kids if you are thinking that) but i babysit A LOT

The last sane person · 12-06-2005, 02:58 PM

Hehe, do it! And then bring the cookies to class and share.

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-06-2005, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The last sane person

Haha,

Friend's son: Do de do de doo...gotta go for the touchdown!

Teacher: *from side line* Hey, that doesnt look like a regular foot ball...

*kid gets tackeld and there is a spectacular white dust cloud center field*

Friend's son: *cough sputter* wait, hang on, this isnt the ball, this's the baby thing!

Teacher: *notices* Okay, thats a flunk for you, rule number one in parenting. NO USING BABIES AS FOOTBALLS!

Freind's son: Awcrap.

nice !!! thats the way to go---- if you want to flunk!!!

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-06-2005, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The last sane person

Haha,

Friend's son: Do de do de doo...gotta go for the touchdown!

Teacher: *from side line* Hey, that doesnt look like a regular foot ball...

*kid gets tackeld and there is a spectacular white dust cloud center field*

Friend's son: *cough sputter* wait, hang on, this isnt the ball, this's the baby thing!

Teacher: *notices* Okay, thats a flunk for you, rule number one in parenting. NO USING BABIES AS FOOTBALLS!

Freind's son: Awcrap.

nice !!! thats the way to go---- if you want to flunk!!!

Tamuril Sirfalas · 12-06-2005, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

ROFL!

Tamuril, that really sucks. At least you can lip people off if they get all snarky about you being a teenage mom (dad?).

We had that as a class in my school, and I'm so glad I didn't take it. I didn't have time to take care of a computer baby, nor would I care to. I didn't have to take that class to think, "What the heck would a high school student want with a baby?"

The downside to the project is it still makes it seem easy to be a parent. All you need is time and to respond to the babies cries. If you drop it, no biggie, the computer just records it and you get marks off. A living being doesn't die or become injured. (Hopefully people do realize real babies are more complex, fragile, and difficult.)

it does suck its a pain in the ass....i was a single mum in this project and yes i did lip off to a couple of people and felt alot better..i got my sister to take care of "baby Aurora" so its all good.its not easy to be a parent, i babysit babies and i know what its like and sometimes its not all that fun. you feed them and they still cry, baby is teething and in pain and there is so much you have to do for them its crazy!! ive changed diapers and all that and why? yes to earn a bit of cash but also to let my neighborhs have a rest from their baby because they deserve it and they are thankful for it.i havent dropped my flour baby but its really hard to hold it and all of your books and put them into the locker without dropping the forsaken thing. a least it doesnt cry like a real baby because then i'd be so screwed.. i do realize that real babies are more complex, fragile, and difficult as you put it Nurvi...and boy its hard and very tiring!!!!

i need a tea break...im actually still not really awake but i am in school replying to this thread and others, not giving a damn about what the sub says to me and happily thinking of what cookies im going to bake with the flour.cheers!!

12-05-2005, 04:16 PM	#441
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I think the whole goal is to get kids (girls AND guys) to realize the down-side to the REALITIES of babies. And this flour thing helps, IMHO, as one who KNOWS the realities of babies. Now, IMO it's WORTH it to have babies but it's critical to go into it knowing that it's not just all cooing little cute things - it's hard work sometimes! And MAJOR responsibility. My friend's son is doing it now. His teacher saw him at a football game without his flour sack and he got marked down! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

12-05-2005, 04:45 PM	#442
The last sane person The Black NÃºmenÃ³rean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Haha, Friend's son: Do de do de doo...gotta go for the touchdown! Teacher: from side line Hey, that doesnt look like a regular foot ball... kid gets tackeld and there is a spectacular white dust cloud center field Friend's son: cough sputter wait, hang on, this isnt the ball, this's the baby thing! Teacher: notices Okay, thats a flunk for you, rule number one in parenting. NO USING BABIES AS FOOTBALLS! Freind's son: Awcrap. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-05-2005, 04:48 PM	#443
*RÃan* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Lol!!!!!! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ã‘Ã¡ Ã«?* Ã³Ãº Ã©Ã¤ Ã¯Ã¶Ã¼ Ã–Ã± Ã‰ Ãž Ã° ÃŸ Â® Ã§ Ã¥ â„¢ Ã¦ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lÃ³mÃ«! AurÃ« entuluva!

12-05-2005, 05:38 PM	#445
The last sane person The Black NÃºmenÃ³rean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	I hold the same opinion! Unfortunatly I didnt have the option to turn it down. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-05-2005, 09:55 PM	#446
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	I did that project once in eighth grade. I wound up with triplets, but they were just eggs and not half as bad. Later this year my developmental psychology class is going to use eggs also. general frustration with nagging and college applications __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

12-06-2005, 12:10 AM	#447
The last sane person The Black NÃºmenÃ³rean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Triplets? Whew, you musta been a proud papa...No wonder the mom let you take care of em! Vent: AAAH! Cant speak, voice dead! __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-06-2005, 02:22 PM	#449
littleadanel of the House of BÃ«or Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	Wintery Mini-Vent Mrrr. Grarr. I wish it would STOP raining. 'Tis winter, dammit! I don't mind the cold, give me snow!! I volunteer to shovel the path from the front door to the gate, just let it SNOW!! __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days

12-06-2005, 02:31 PM	#452
The last sane person The Black NÃºmenÃ³rean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Ha! 2 FT? Thats nothing, mountains baby, thats where its at! I have gotten the science of shoveling down to an artform. Though now that i am sick, i have relegated that to my army of young cousins. Ah, good times. Vent: Voice still dead. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

12-06-2005, 02:58 PM	#457
The last sane person The Black NÃºmenÃ³rean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Hehe, do it! And then bring the cookies to class and share. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.