I would put my mom in the "helper" category (she teaches middle/high school) and she has as much love for the tough kids as the easy kids.
Even privileged kids who have no external reason to be so abrasive? Your mother is a gem.
I fucking hate abrasive kids. I try to help them where time allows but they're very much at the bottom of the list.
I bet Mr. Rogers dealt with difficult kids with infinite compassion and kindness. Mr. Rogers ruled.
I live in Mr. Roger's neighborhood and I find difficult kids trying.
I even have a gold badge on the gym at his old TV station.
Why do you keep it there? Also, what is a "helper" in this context?
Somebody interested in kids, but not in a Rep. Hastert way.
Does it count if you pretend?
I keep seeing previews for the Mr. Rogers movie, and it's overwhelming how much he's just pure decency and kindness. I don't know if I could take 90 minutes of that without my heart exploding.
The first fifteen minutes cover his time as a Green Beret.
13: I had to look it up. Very funny.
Hang on, heebs; are you claiming to have some other child without anti social tendencies?
You are the Virgin Mary and I claim my five pounds
Kids are just the worst, except compared to adults.
Kids are the absolute worst. Kids are the absolute best. Sometimes within a five minute time frame.
Option 1 is to be jittery about anti-social behavior, option 2 is ANTHRAX
Because your responsible for them, and yet you can't actually be completely responsible for them, your own kids make you crazy.
When the parents of my high school clique got together, they were invariably astounded to hear that their own intolerable rotten kid was liked and regarded as "a pretty good kid" by all the other parents
Other peoples' kids are much worse than mine. I always say that.
The only thing I remember learning from the day care people was that kids cruise around the room biting each other and that you only get a note when your kid gets bit not when he bites another kid. And they don't tell you which kid bit your kid even when it's obviously which one looks like a biter.
13: Just so you people know, that thing about Mr. Rogers being a Green Beret with however many confirmed kills is a myth. He sniped Vietnamese in his spare time.
I think the only way I can manage difficult kids is by making up a narrative like the one you cite, so I do think your challenging one would be able to fit in somehow. And sleepaway camp was life-changing for Mara, who came back after five days away with decreased anxiety and actual social skills. And then I let myself wrangle with Lee about which week they could attend this year that it was full, which is fine because I can't really afford it anyway. But I feel bad!
Biting a toddler makes the pain go away, but only briefly.
Could you paint your toddler with an unpleasantly bitter-tasting substance to discourage others from biting him? It works for finger nails, and also many species of insect.
I think some toddlers are already toxic because otherwise there's no way they would have evolved to wear such brightly colored clothing.
Atossa is charming to other people, but she's a real brat around the house. I guess this thread is a bit encouraging.
The kid in question (Pokey) is going for the 3 day camp, instead of the 7 day camp like Hawaii. When we got there, it turned out that they'd had some attrition and there were only 3 kids in his cabin, along with 2 counselors and 1 counselor-in-training. This is great for his anger management - he'll basically have multiple adults available to tend to him at any moment, way better than he gets at home.
How do you know the adults at camp are better than you and Jammies?
31: There are more of them. And there are less other kids.
After all these years. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid.
On the topic of grating, the Supreme Court punted on another big case.
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41! For a little pleasant schadenfreude for a change, a Republican running for CA Lieutenant Governor poured $2.2m of his own money into the campaign and got the CRP endorsement, but fell well short of the number-two spot in the open primary. I hadn't even registered his name before today.
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Also nice: Kobach ordered to take legal education.
I have a difficult kid and honestly sometimes I find her hard to take. She is better for others (slightly) but can be a real handful.