Go ahead, tell me I can't.

I love it when someone tells me what I can't do.

Kat came home last week and said she was in the paper her teacher had. I got as much info as I could from her teacher and off I went on my hunt. I called the Record, spoke with one lady who passed me to another lady who said she couldn't mail a copy because I wasn't a subscriber to the paper. I went back to their website and found the reporter's name and she just so happens to have her phone number listed as well. I called her up and she is *personally* gonna send me a copy of the paper with my star on the front page.

Yay.

I'll post a pic as soon as it arrives!

Junie B. Jones and a lesson in parenting.

I was quite bothered this morning. Kat was trying to sound out the word: brains. Then I heard her say something about bashing brains. And then fist was being thrown into the mix. I'm thinking to myself...WTF?? She says it's her Junie B. Jones book she had gotten from Adora. I started reading, trying to figure out what was going on in this book. This all happened while we were getting out of the car for daycare. I did take the book in question with me to work...so I could do some "research". Below is my post in the Parent Forum:

"How'd you like me to bash your brains in, you 09/26 08:42:28

Ummm, this is a sentence in my daughters Junie B. Jones book. "Junie B. Jones and her Big Fat Mouth"
I don't care for this language but what do I do? Not let her read it? Is it that big of a deal?

What are your thoughts?????



I got some interesting feedback. http://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=49841718



"Talk about what she is reading. Ask her 09/26 08:48:13

if she feels what that person said was nice or right. Ask her if she has said anything like that to anyone or if anyone has ever said anything like that to her. Ask her how she thinks if feels to both say something like that and to have it said to her. Books with themes or dialog that make us uncomfortable are great jumping off points for conversations with our kids."


Duh, why didn't I think of that?? I ALWAYS seek different perspectives. Always.

"Are you gonna spend it at the casino?"

I'll refer to K, as Kat from now on and J, will be Bub.

She makes me friggen laugh. I walked into the livingroom and she tells me that Bub was drawing with the stinky (sharpie) pen. As I was looking for permanent marks I found a paper that she was drawing ticket-stub-looking things. She fessed up to using the sharpie. The pen had gone thru the paper and stained grandma's tv tray. I had her wipe the marks with a wippee, she realized that wasn't working. Her and grandma had a sit down to figure what to do next. Grandma had some cleaner that took it right off, and for her cleaning time she was charging Kat $1. Kat looked puzzled, and asked "are you gonna spend it at the casino?" Grandma is really good at keeping a straight face, I am getting better, but I had to turn my head.
I 'm thinking the casino remark is from a few months back, Kat had given all her quarters to Grandma in exchange for dollar bills. She was heading to the casinos in Vegas. And being considerate, she wanted to know if she'd like a dollar bill or change. Too funny.