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I don't speed and I laugh with glee when speeders get caught. :D
Been there. Except when I was a teen and it was my dad and he was cranky for the rest of the day.:D
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Won't people slow down when they see the police car or someone stopped by the officer? Is your warning 10 seconds earlier really making the road safer or just preventing people from paying a fine for knowingly breaking the law?
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I have never had to use such a bathroom but I will admit I have recurring nightmares about it and have since I was a child. It's up there with getting on the school bus naked for me and having to take a final exam in a class I've never been to.
I have nightmares about being on a toilet in the center of a room surrounded by people with just a newspaper for cover!
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When I was 13 I felt I was too old to Trick or Treat, but my 11 year old sister was going as a nurse, so I went on crutches as her patient, an injured basketball player. We got a lot of laughs out of it because most people thought my costume was just a basketball player and I was actually injured.
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I'm biased because my dishes are red. Besides the fact that red is my favorite color, it just seems to me like red is more versatile for decorating for various holidays.
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I don't need to slow down because I don't break the speed limit. I find it strange that otherwise law-abiding people consider the speed limit not to be binding on them.
Laura
:iagree:This is a puzzle to my dh and me as well.
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It's not that you know whether they are speeding - it's just a common signal that there is a speed trap ahead, and as a pp said, it's common courtesy to let other drivers know.
I consider it perfectly ethical, as you are basically telling people to obey the speed limit, which is the ostensible goal of the speed trap anyway.
I see it more like "Obey briefly just so you won't get caught this time." which is not a message I feel comfortable sending. The frequent reflective speed limit signs should be reminder enough in my opinion. Then again, I was never the type to warn, "Shhhh--the teacher's coming!" either.
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Really? That isn't universal in the U.S.? It was a common thing to do when I lived in NY, and it's common (not as common as NY but still common) here in PA, too.
You can't necessarily tell if people are speeding, but if there's a group of cars coming up or that appear to be moving quick you just flash your lights a few times to warn them to slow down, there's a cop parked somewhere ahead.
Weird. I only know about flashing people who forget to turn down their high beams or forget to turn on their lights at all.
Then again, I've never intentionally sped in my life and it wouldn't occur to me to prevent speeders from suffering this natural consequence.:tongue_smilie: I'd much rather they *hopefully* learn a lesson from the monetary hit and slow down permanently.
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Yes, I remember the humiliation of group showers. Our Phy.Ed teacher used to stand and watch to make sure we all got wet. :eek:
In our district, no adult was allowed to be in there, which created a whole new set of problems!
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How do other drivers know why you are flashing them? How can you tell that they are speeding?
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It's common enough to be featured in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie. The girls' bathroom stalls in my hometown had doors, but the boys' didn't though the urinals did have dividers at least.
As a teen I NEVER would have used a doorless stall unless I had a best-friend to stand there with her back to me, and even that would have been uncomfortable.
Mandatory group showers were one reason I was so grateful that my mom founded a school when I started 7th grade!
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Can someone explain the point of the locking doors? They can be opened from the outside but not the inside? Isn't that pretty much opposite of normal security practices? Who is protected by locking the children in?
At the schools I know about they are locked from both sides.
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Our high school had metal fences things at the end of each hall section (our building was more like a tic tac toe grid). I never heard them say they were fighting. They were used however to block hallways from pilfering kids when clubs met in the cafeteria and such.
:iagree:Our high school used them to block off the lockers, classrooms, and bulletin boards from tampering during out-of-school-time events in the gym like dances, concerts, or basketball games
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A few suggestions for the cold weather climates:
Eskimo
Polar Bear
Snowman
Stay Puft Marshmellow Man (the parka underneath would be a plus)
It doesn't get that cold here though. Usually it's just cold enough for tights and a long sleeve shirt.
Sumo wrestler
M&M
"Rotten Leftovers" Wrap yourself in tin foil (or a space blanket for added warmth), attach a large label with a Sharpied date that is quite old, and use temporary hair spray dye in green, moldy white, brown, etc. on your hair. Or substitute a warm beanie with felt chunks glued to it.
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From my best friend:
If you want to see if you can jump high enough to hit your head on the ceiling, don't put your hand on the top of your head as a cushion "just in case" you actually succeed. Especially don't do this if you are wearing your $300 class ring because it might hypothetically get mashed and have to be cut off.
From me:
Don't wear heels and a dress to your first day of high school when you have only worn heels a handful of times in a carpeted church. The combination of a crowded hall, newly waxed floors, and self-absorbed teenage strangers might potentially be painful and embarrassing.
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Ds wants to go as a tree. We plan on dressing him in his favorite deer hunting camo, paint his face,and put tree limbs and leaves on his head. I haven't figured out how we will get the limbs to stay on his head, but he is really excited.
I was a tree as a kindergartner (complete w/bird and nest!) I wore a real military combat helmet w/branches/leaves wired together and glued/wired on. Our Dollar Tree has toy ones that might suit your purposes.
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"The Pillow Game" is always a hit with teens I know.
Have everyone sit in a circle on the floor with one person ("it") in the middle holding a soft pillow. Pick a category, such as fruit, animals, presidents' last names, sports, objects you see at a birthday party--whatever you wish. Each person (except "it") picks a name for him/herself from that category and shares it with the group.
To start the game, call out one player's name. "It" tries to hit that person with the pillow (no throwing) while that player tries to call out someone else's name first. If "it" hits the player before he/she can say someone else's name, "it" takes his/her place (and assumes his/her name) and the player who was hit is the new "it". If the player calls out another name first, "it" moves on and tries to hit that person instead. If "it" accidentally hits the player after he/she called out another name, play stops while the player hits "it" back twice. The same rule applies if "it" gets mixed up and hits the wrong person. It gets moving very quickly and always results in much hilarity. After "it" has changed around quite a few times, pick and new category and new names to keep it fresh. I've been at several parties where this game was so popular it went on for 1.5 hours!
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Both the 5th-7th middle school and the 8th/9th jr. high in my rural hometown did this 12 years ago. I presume they still do. Really stupid and dangerous if you ask me. If kids want to skip school, they just won't show up.
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I don't have a child that age yet, but I had a 6th grade student who frequently cried dramatically. One day I pulled her aside and talked about how she was wasting something precious--her tears. I told her that people have a wonderful gift to be able to feel the pain of others and even cry for them. But if you spend your tears crying over your own little problems like a misspelled word, hard assignment, or mean comment from a classmate you will become so inwardly focused that you completely miss the chance to give your gift of tears to someone who really needs them. I gave her a few examples of things worth crying over. Then when she cried (or started to) in class, I quietly asked, "Is this worth spending tears on?" She was able to compose herself quite easily! This worked very well for her. On the few occasions that the tears lasted more than 30 seconds, I sent her to the bathroom, saying, "While you wash your face think of someone who could use your tears more than you." It only took a couple of minutes for her to calm down vs. the 30 minutes it took prior to our talk.
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Gmail is the way to go!
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My youngest particularly did not like it- why? Because she is a perfectionist to a very high degree. She realized she couldn't color things to look like what they really look like nor could she draw them. She outgrew that complete level of perfectionism and has enjoyed coloring and drawing once she got quite a bit older (at least 7 or 8).
Hahaha that was SO me! I just came across a pile of my favorite childhood coloring books and discovered that I had only colored 1 or 2 pictures in each. I was momentarily confused, because these were the coloring books that I loved and had strong memories of using. Then I remembered that I loved the pictures too much to "ruin" them with imperfect coloring:lol:.
In kindergarten we were forced to color little letter/word booklets every day. The were ditto copies, and I hated the look of the purple lines and the fact that I couldn't color perfectly in the lines. Thus, I meticulously outlined every line in black crayon after filling it in.
In 3rd grade we had a fairly long-term project that involved coloring in pictures of different birds and filling in information about them underneath the pictures. I did the writing, but procrastinated on the coloring because I was so stressed about it looking perfect. Then I didn't turn it in at all. This was the only assignment I ever failed to turn in K-college! My dealying was for naught, because the teacher was shocked I hadn't done it and called my mom and they made me finish it all in one night--major hand cramping!:tongue_smilie:
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How would you have handled these situation?
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If it was a real knife I would have called the police immediately. Even if he were "joking" he needs to know the seriousness of his actions!