Whaddya goin' do with these kids these days? (parenting)

by **phatj** » Mon Feb 11, 2019 23:14:18

Phred wrote:My daughter was invited to participate in a program where she spends her junior and senior years of high school at the local community college for free instead of her school and earns college credits. This would be awesome as it would cut down on the amount of actual undergrad college credits she would need.

Unfortunately, it would put her in college classes as a 16 year old which makes her nervous. Also, she wants a traditional high school experience...friends, football games, etc.

Ce la vie.

C'est la vie

by **Bucky** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 02:09:14

that's life! (that's just the way it goes!)

by **Phred** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 09:55:59

phatj wrote:
Phred wrote:My daughter was invited to participate in a program where she spends her junior and senior years of high school at the local community college for free instead of her school and earns college credits. This would be awesome as it would cut down on the amount of actual undergrad college credits she would need.

Unfortunately, it would put her in college classes as a 16 year old which makes her nervous. Also, she wants a traditional high school experience...friends, football games, etc.

Ce la vie.

C'est la vie

Dammit! I even Googled the phrase before posting.

Oh well. C'est la vie.

by **Grotewold** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 14:53:23

My wife suggested sending our five-year-old to a free bible camp Jesus Adventure type thing, one week of mornings this summer.

I have reservations, but also free is me

by **The Savior** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 15:10:00

Grotewold wrote:My wife suggested sending our five-year-old to a free bible camp Jesus Adventure type thing, one week of mornings this summer.

I have reservations, but also free is me

If you have reservations what else do you need? A confirmation?

by **Bucky** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 15:34:52

isn't that the kind of thing where some kid came back and said that dinosaurs weren't real since the earth is only a couple thousand years old

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 15:56:26

Maybe. But probably not. Mostly, it seems the do crafts, eat snacks, maybe sing some Jesus songs. Though Lil' Vulture went to one years ago that was a joint production of the the Catholics and the Presbyterians (us Episcopalians were nominally involved, but in fact no Episcopal adults participated) and the "theme" was "There is Power in the Blood" which in my opinion was pretty damn weird for a kids bible thing. They even had a catchy "There is Power in the Blood" song.

by **Grotewold** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 16:39:37

Bucky wrote:isn't that the kind of thing where some kid came back and said that dinosaurs weren't real

that would destroy his little brother, yeah

pass

by **thephan** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 21:21:48

I think you all are over thinking this to the extreme.

by **The Dude** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 21:35:12

Dinosaurs are real though

by **Bucky** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 21:35:39

wut there's like 120 words written about it

by **swishnicholson** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 23:38:33

Uncle Milty wrote:
The Dude wrote:Dinosaurs are real though

were real

Aren't birds is dinosaurs? And they are.

by **Phred** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:56:53

TenuredVulture wrote:Maybe. But probably not. Mostly, it seems the do crafts, eat snacks, maybe sing some Jesus songs. Though Lil' Vulture went to one years ago that was a joint production of the the Catholics and the Presbyterians (us Episcopalians were nominally involved, but in fact no Episcopal adults participated) and the "theme" was "There is Power in the Blood" which in my opinion was pretty damn weird for a kids bible thing. They even had a catchy "There is Power in the Blood" song.

sounds kind of white supremacist, tbh.

by **TenuredVulture** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 13:20:47

Phred wrote:
TenuredVulture wrote:Maybe. But probably not. Mostly, it seems the do crafts, eat snacks, maybe sing some Jesus songs. Though Lil' Vulture went to one years ago that was a joint production of the the Catholics and the Presbyterians (us Episcopalians were nominally involved, but in fact no Episcopal adults participated) and the "theme" was "There is Power in the Blood" which in my opinion was pretty damn weird for a kids bible thing. They even had a catchy "There is Power in the Blood" song.

sounds kind of white supremacist, tbh.

I think it was because they let the Catholics pick the curriculum. We do have some weird Presbyterians though, so who knows.

by **thephan** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 14:06:18

swishnicholson wrote:
Uncle Milty wrote:
The Dude wrote:Dinosaurs are real though

were real

Aren't birds is dinosaurs? And they are.

I never gave it much thought, but changing the term would really mess things up. Sure this really screws the people who don't believe in evolution, but how F'd up is 'Kentucky Fried Dinosaur' or 'Dino-Fil-A'. I do dig the potential ad campaign of Eat-Mor-Dinoz with raptors shredding a herd of cowz.

by **thephan** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 14:09:37

Phred wrote:sounds kind of white supremacist, tbh.

Not in context. That context is the ritual of communion described in the last supper shared by a dozen or so brown folks.

by **Phred** » Sat Feb 16, 2019 08:50:32

thephan wrote:
Phred wrote:sounds kind of white supremacist, tbh.

Not in context. That context is the ritual of communion described in the last supper shared by a dozen or so brown folks.

Makes sense.

by **Bill McNeal** » Sat Feb 16, 2019 09:59:03

Grotewold wrote:My wife suggested sending our five-year-old to a free bible camp Jesus Adventure type thing, one week of mornings this summer.

I have reservations, but also free is me

We’ve done these a few times with our kids, we are lapsed Catholics and the camps were like Unitarian or something. Kids enjoyed it and learned a little about the concept of faith and stuff but didn’t have religion (or anything else) shoved down their throats.

by **TenuredVulture** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 23:44:52

Lil' Vulture's class did a kind of "real life" simulation. Lil' Vulture apparently made a lot of bad choices--she had 3 kids, but was the non-custodial parent and thus had to pay child support. Her job? Graphic designer. She also lived in a trailer, and at the end of the month had $1 left, thus could not afford cable or netflix.

by **phatj** » Wed Feb 20, 2019 23:48:36

Tell her to get a show on HGTV, she'll be all set

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