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  1. dtb1999
    Wow. I don't know What to say. At least he didn't get arrested like the 13 year old mentioned in the end of the article, though! :glare: I'm just really glad we homeschool, cause my kids would have been permanently expelled due to the copious amounts of wind passed here on a daily basis. :tongue_smilie:
  2. dtb1999
    These incidents were all voluntary. No one demanded that you do it, you chose to do it. Like I said before, it's not so much the issue of germs, but the act of telling a 5 year old child to eat from the trash bin. It's just not okay. And for the people who think it was no big deal, then I challenge you all to toss tonight's leftovers in the trash, invite all your friends and neighbors over, and proceed to eat the leftovers from the trash. Demand that your friends join in.
  3. dtb1999
    :lol: Or do a vice grip and hope that if it slips out, it's quick and silent. :tongue_smilie:
  4. dtb1999
    Yes, but do they filter the smell and sound? :lol:
  5. dtb1999
    :iagree:
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    It's not about the germs, imho. It's the degrading act of it. It is disrespectful, and emotionally abusive. Period.
  7. dtb1999
    OMG, are you serious? That little boy in that incident was autistic! Do you know anything about autism? The kids voted him out of the class because he was different. :(
  8. dtb1999
    The specifics do. not. matter. It was W-R-O-N-G. Period. No excuses. If you think it's okay, then you eat tonight's dinner from the trash. :)
  9. dtb1999
    As far as teaching kids that fighting solves problems, suffice it to say I think that's a bunch of bologna, but we won't go there. As for selling kids short, I think we sell kids short by displaying the mentality that they don't deserve respect and by treating them that it's okay to be walked over and mistreated. By shoveling things under the rug when incidents such as this one occur, the only thing that solves is showing kids that they aren't important enough to stand up for. The only unthinking person in this unfortunate incident was the teacher.The only actions that may have damaged the child were the teacher's actions. Good for the person who stood up for that 5 year old boy.
  10. dtb1999
    Again, who are *you* to judge what could be considered harsh to someone else? This boy was severely disrespected, and humiliated, regardless if you feel it could have been much worse. Do you seriously feel kids don't deserve respect?
  11. dtb1999
    Bullying is never ok. No one should have to "suck it up" when they are mistreated. Tell that little boy to "suck it up" enough times and you are going to have a little boy that grows up into quite possibly a very angry adult with a big chip on his shoulder.
  12. dtb1999
    Who are you to judge what would be considered traumatic to a person? Different things affect people in different ways. I am assuming here that you don't feel that children deserve a basic level of respect, judging by your replies. :(
  13. dtb1999
    :confused: Men aren't allowed to have emotions? Men aren't allowed to be affected by traumatic things that have happened to them?
  14. dtb1999
    So, do you think children do not deserve a basic level of respect? :001_huh:
  15. dtb1999
    What are we teaching the children? How about basic human rights and respect? That is it absolutely unnaceptable to treat another human being this way? No one was hurt? What about the little boy who was told to eat from the trash, no doubt in front of his schoolmates? That's unbelievably humiliating and degrading. He is 5 years old. Who knows why he threw his food in the trash? Did he deserve to be embarassed in front of the entire cafeteria for it? Nope. Could he possibly have issues down the road from it? You bet. The only outrageous and gross overreaction was what the teacher did. Sorry.
  16. dtb1999
    What's debatable about it? No one deserves to be told to eat from a trash bin! That's just wrong, on so many levels. As for her being charged, I think it is fitting, as what she did was abusive, albeit not physical abuse, but emotionally abusive nonetheless.
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    Personally, if it was my child she did that to, I would love nothing more than to see her fired. Or better yet, I'd like to make her eat a disgusting school lunch from the trash can in front of the entire school, and then fire her. There's just no excuse for that. Period. We're talking about a 5 year old boy here. I can't imagine what would possess her to think that was even remotely ok. I don't really care to what "extent" she made him eat it. She told this little boy to eat his food from the trash can, and whether she physically forced him to do it, or only told him to do it, it was disgusting and wrong. It is definately injury, and not just because of the risk of germs from contaminated food. I would hope she is immediately fired. She should not teaching kids anymore.
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    For a while, we had a toy storage shelf with plastic bins that was kept in the garage. It housed all the teeny tiny little toys, like legos, playmobil, etc. They could go and get 1 bin at a time, and had to put that bin back before taking another one out. I eventually gave up on it cause I am a slacker :o , but it did work for a while.
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    We used to have the occasional wolf spider in our old house. One time, I was walking past ds's bedroom where my dh was sitting on the bed, and noticed a huge wolf spider on the wall above the bed! It was bad. everybody was screaming, dh screamed for a broom, I was running around like a chicken with it's head chopped off screaming, "Broom!". Total chaos followed. He killed it, finally. It didn't want to die the first time he whacked it with the broom. :glare: No one wanted to even go in that room for quite a while. :o Then, a few weeks later, I found that spider's mother in the kid's bathroom. (It was actually bigger than the one in the bedroom, so I refer to it as the mother spider when telling my spider story.) I screamed, and screamed some more. I gathered up the courage to whack it to death with a shoe. Then I left it there till dh got home so he could dispose of the remains. :tongue_smilie:
  20. dtb1999
    My 6 year old is also the same way. He wants nothing to do with school work. He always says he's bored. Even when we go out and do things ALL day. We can literally leave the house at 9 am and not get home till 4 or 5, and he will ask me what we are going to do next. :001_huh: I was the same way as a kid, and I went to school, and did quite a bit of after school activities. Now, I am the total opposite. It takes alot of motivation just to get out the door some mornings. :o
  21. dtb1999
    :lol: dutch oven!
  22. dtb1999
    I'm sorry, but I find his reply pretty funny. We have a crude sense of humor in our house, though. :tongue_smilie: Was it unusually cruel? Um, I personally wouldn't make my kid ever eat in a bathroom on the toilet. I think that's much worse than a 9 year old boy farting and making a witty comment about it, imho. I think if I felt so offended by it I would have had him go eat at the kitchen counter. I probably would have been laughing too hard to do anything else though, so....:lol: *Edited to add*- I am also snickering at the tags for this thread. Sorry, as you were.
  23. dtb1999
    :001_huh: Im sorry, but we are talking about children here, not dogs.
  24. dtb1999
    I would just let him have the leftovers, or a small snack that doesn't require preparation, like a yogurt or fruit, or something like that. He may having a growth spurt and really is hungry. I mean, if he's eating it, and asking for more he's obviously hungry. Alot of the times my oldest will pick at his dinner then want something else. :glare: In that case, I offer him a snack that doesn't require me to cook a whole new meal, and preferably one he can get himself. ;)
  25. dtb1999
    :grouphug:
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