Tired

Thank you all for your kind and constructive comments regarding my daughter's interesting math class yesterday.

When I am able to, I will calmly approach the teacher/office about this incident. I know how to keep my steam under the lid in such situations. I learned how to do that from Chief. He's very good at being diplomatic . . . I'm not as good at it, but I can do it. In this situation, I will get the teachers side of the story, trust me. However . . .

Teenie would never lie or exaggerate about such a matter. She is a conscientious, honest, and dependable girl. I grilled her in the car about this incident before I allowed myself to get nuts. My kids know that if I ever stand and fight for them and I'm left in their lies to protect them, I will never stand for them again. I repeated that to them again this morning. If I find out I barked up trees only to lose face, I won't do it again no matter how dire their situation. Be real or piss off.

I'm more harsh than I appear, but my kids know I loathe lying. There is just no room for it in my life. And, yes, as very littles they lied to cover up and when I found out, I would tell them it was far more disappointing to me that they felt they needed to lie to me. Lying to cover up equals more punishment. It's better to tell the truth and take it for whatever it is. Face up to it.
I also try very hard to make the punishments at home match the crime. And, I never refuse to show my love for the kids. They know just punishment, not only from my teaching them, but being Catholic (they know they can be forgiven but they also know that there is penance).

So, I cannot imagine my daughter would be lying about this. And, I know there are parents out there that are blind to their kids shenanigans, but I make it my personal policy to weed out the crap and get to the root of the matter with my kids.

Jamie mentioned I could home school. Let's just say, that is always on my mind. I could. I will if I'm not happy with the out come. More on this as it unfolds.



It seems that blogger now will not let me get rid of the italics so whatever. I can't stand it. If it's not breaks in the paragraphs not working it's some of this tiny stuff I find annoying. Geesh!

I watched the news last night about the storm. Schools are open, but they said that the district was advising parents to have an alternative or back up plan. There was no elaboration on that so I interpreted it as: if it gets bad around here, you may have to get your kids which means you better be listening to the news . . . . watching out your windows . . . and have a plan in place to get your kids. Hmmmm. Yeah, right. I'm new here. The Chief is not here (I'll just say it: he's overseas somewhere), our sponsor is at work (I can go there with the kids to her house but it's not that kind of emergency, so no), and I don't know anyone else who could help me w/ the kids or even help me. The storm is to arrive this afternoon and I decided that I'm keeping my kids home. I ran into a gal who lives on the 45th floor yesterday. I asked her if she was nervous about the storm and she said no. She has her food and water and the lights might go out . . . the building has a generator for common areas, though. Okay. I have a few candles and a headlamp flashlight, food and water. I do not anticipate this to be a bad storm for us . . . other parts of the island may have more troubles with the expected rain. You know, the flooding stuff. I figure the islands have been through a lot - I have read enough history of it now that the islands are not new to these storms and they still look like they survive them.

I'm just keeping my chicks close.