Education Challenges for A New President
President Barack Obama
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He’s commanded a timeline for troop withdrawals from Iraq, mandated the closing of Guantanemo Bay within one year, and gathered his advisors to work on the economic catastrophes that seem to get worse each day. It remains to be seen just how quickly (more…)
How to Get Rid of a Troublesome Teen
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Teenagers Can Be A Real Handful!
- Is your teenager giving you problems?
- Do you find yourself arguing constantly about clothes? curfew? anything?
- Does your teen grumble about chores?
- Are they constantly badgering you for a car, or to drive?
- Is this beginning to look like another school year from Hades?
- Finally, are you just plain tired of being the parent of a teenager?
Well, I may have found the solution to your problems!
All you have to do is move to NEBRASKA! That’s right, NEBRASKA!
Broadly-Expanded SAFE HAVEN Law
Seems it took a little while for Nebraska to pass a SAFE HAVEN law protecting unwanted infants. In fact, Nebraska was the very last state to adopt the law. However, when they finally did it, they did it up in a BIG WAY!
Nebraska’s new SAFE HAVEN law actually goes farther than the laws as enacted in other states. Instead of just allowing parents to abandon unwanted babies at hospitals with no questions asked, it actually goes beyond infants and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.
While lawmakers may not have intended it, the month-old law allows for the real possibility that frustrated parents of adolescents could actually drop off misbehaving teens.
However, Nebraska lawmakers sincerely wanted to extend the protection to all minors, which in Nebraska is age 19.
Senator Tom White was quoted as saying,
“All children deserve our protection. If we save one child from being abused, it’s well, well worth it.”
Why SAFE HAVEN?
In other states, SAFE HAVEN has been enacted to focus on preventing the abandonment of newborns, so that babies can be left in safekeeping, without prosecution to the abandoning parent. The idea is to prevent babies being dumped and left to die, or outright killed. SAFE HAVEN laws were designed to protect newborns.
What Nebraska has done, which is a BIG THING, is extend that protection to any unwanted or at-risk minor.
ON A VERY SERIOUS NOTE: It is important to remember that SAFE HAVEN laws do not protect the parent, or caregiver, from prosecution, if abuse has occurred. Thank goodness!
Thus far, according to reports, no children in Nebraska have been dropped off under the new law.
A Great-Grandmother’s Point of View
Just a bit of advice from a happy great-grandmother:
All the battles with your teenagers are so WORTH IT!
If you hang in there and keep loving them, no matter how awful or rebellious they seem – or how much they tell you they hate you, eventually they get past this stage.
When they grow up and realize the heck they put you through, they’ll be real sorry!
Ah! Revenge is sweet! Heh! Heh! Heh!
Best of all, they become wonderful people who will become your best friends.
And they sometimes give you grandchildren. And that’s the best reward of all!
Brennan
Best Parenting Post of the Day!
Games Parents Play!
Dear Readers,
As you know, I almost always write my own posts but today I HAVE TO make an exception.
A friend sent me a shout on DIGG (you may have heard of DIGG! TeeHee!) I simply HAD TO share this FABULOUS post on parenting! Kudos to Gomestic.com!
Go read 10 Games Parents Play With Their Children. I guarantee it is worthwhile reading. And while you’re there, DIGG IT UP! This needs wide distribution.
PSSST! Pay special attention to #10 on the list!
I’ll talk to you again tomorrow. Now GO! ENJOY! DIGG!
Brennan
Parenting Abbreviated!
Dear Reader,
Another friend sent me the link to this video and I laughed so hard that I knew I had to share it with you, just in case you haven’t seen it yet. It goes really fast, so I copied and pasted the lyrics for you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Just in case she spoke too fast for you, here are the lyrics. If you’re like me you’ll watch this a few times.
Sung to the tune of “The William Tell Overture”
Performance and Lyrics by Anita Renfroe
Get up now
Get up now
Get up out of bed
Wash your face
Brush your teeth
Comb your sleepyhead
Here’s your clothes and your shoes
Hear the words I said
Get up now! Get up and make your bed
Are you hot? Are you cold?
Are you wearing that?
Where’s your books and your lunch and your homework at?
Grab your coat and gloves and your scarf and hat
Don’t forget! You gotta feed the cat
Eat your breakfast, the experts tell us it’s the most important meal of all
Take your vitamins so you will grow up one day to be big and tall
Please remember the orthodontist will be seeing you at 3 today
Don’t forget your piano lesson is this afternoon so you must play
Don’t shovel
Chew slowly
But hurry
The bus is here
Be careful
Come back here
Did you wash behind your ears?
Play outside, don’t play rough, will you just play fair?
Be polite, make a friend, don’t forget to share
Work it out, wait your turn, never take a dare
Get along! Don’t make me come down there
Clean your room, fold your clothes, put your stuff away
Make your bed, do it now, do we have all day?
Were you born in a barn? Would you like some hay?
Can you even hear a word I say?
Answer the phone! Get off the phone!
Don’t sit so close, turn it down, no texting at the table
No more computer time tonight!
Your iPod’s my iPod if you don’t listen up
Where are you going and with whom and what time do you think you’re coming home?
Saying thank you, please, excuse me makes you welcome everywhere you roam
You’ll appreciate my wisdom someday when you’re older and you’re grown
Can’t wait till you have a couple little children of your own
You’ll thank me for the counsel I gave you so willingly
But right now I thank you not to roll your eyes at me
Close your mouth when you chew, would appreciate
Take a bite maybe two of the stuff you hate
Use your fork, do not burp or I’ll set you straight
Eat the food I put upon your plate
Get an A, get the door, don’t get smart with me
Get a grip, get in here, I’ll count to three
Get a job, get a life, get a PHD
Get a dose,
“I don’t care who started it!
You’re grounded until you’re 36″
Get your story straight and tell the truth for once, for heaven’s sake
And if all your friends jumped off a cliff would you jump, too?
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said at least a thousand times before
That you’re too old to act this way
It must be your father’s DNA
Look at me when I am talking
Stand up straighter when you walk
A place for everything and everything must be in place
Stop crying or I’ll give you something real to cry about
Oh!
Brush your teeth, wash your face, put your PJs on
Get in bed, get up here, say a prayer with mom
Don’t forget, I love you
And tomorrow we will do this all again because a mom’s work never ends
You don’t need the reason why
Because, because, because, because
I said so, I said so, I said so, I said so
I’m the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom!!
Ta da!!!
Hope you enjoyed this video and share it with others. It’s already been viewed three and a half MILLION times!
(Actually, with the copies posted just on YouTube.com – this video has already been viewed over 10 MILLION times, as of this date. WOW!)
Have a great day!
Brennan
