Guest guest Posted August 15, 2000 Report Share Posted August 15, 2000 ARGH. I'm SO MAD right now. The neighbors told my 9 year old son that he will never be able to find a job because he's homeschooled, and that he is missing out on too much by not being in public school. How dare they!!! That makes me SO MAD. ARRRRGGGHHH. Why is it that people think if you are different from them that makes you WRONG? Karla in Indiana PS I can hardly wait until Noah is old enough to send them his first pay stub. Cuz this kid is going places. Problem is, they're so old they'll probably be pushing up daisies by then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2000 Report Share Posted August 16, 2000 In a message dated 8/16/00 3:50:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, selahdream@... writes: << ARGH. I'm SO MAD right now. The neighbors told my 9 year old son that he will never be able to find a job because he's homeschooled, and that he is missing out on too much by not being in public school. How dare they!!! Hey, they are right. He will miss out on a lot. He'll miss out on the tormenting because he or someone else got the wrong haircut or wore the wrong kind of jeans that day. He'll miss out on the whole class not going on a field trip because some kid in his class stole a green ceramic ashtray from the library (Yes, that happened to me). He'll miss out on having to sit and wait quietly while other people finish things, or while the teacher is at the doorway chatting with the teacher across the hall. Or the poor thing may miss out on being tackled held down by 5 classmates and kissed by a 6th in 4th grade. (another of mine). So, don't begrudge them their beliefs. <G> As far as not getting a job and such. Do they also believe the homeschooled child who won the spelling bee this year is going to be unable to get a job? Don't let them get to you! It's ignorance, nothing they say is going by fact, just something they always grew up believing. in PA >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2000 Report Share Posted August 16, 2000 In a message dated 8/16/00 7:55:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, teresav26@... writes: << Do they also believe the homeschooled child who won the spelling bee this year is going to be unable to get a job? >> actually, i believe 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of the national spelling bee were all homeschoolers--interesting, isn't it?????? brigit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2000 Report Share Posted August 16, 2000 Hi Karla, I'm in Indiana too. What part of IN do you live in? I'm in Shelbyville, about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Carmella Re: Neighbors > ARGH. I'm SO MAD right now. The neighbors told my 9 year old son that he > will never be able to find a job because he's homeschooled, and that he is > missing out on too much by not being in public school. How dare they!!! > That makes me SO MAD. ARRRRGGGHHH. Why is it that people think if you are > different from them that makes you WRONG? > Karla in Indiana > PS I can hardly wait until Noah is old enough to send them his first pay > stub. Cuz this kid is going places. Problem is, they're so old they'll > probably be pushing up daisies by then. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2000 Report Share Posted August 16, 2000 Well, I did it. I got the boys enrolled in Kindergarten, and paid for their books. The registration lady checked NO on their immunizations, but I got handed a form letter they give everyone demanding that all children be immunized before school. Any ideas what I can expect from here on out? Do you think they'll fight me? They took my money--can they still keep the boys out of school? Karla in Indiana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2000 Report Share Posted August 16, 2000 Well you can do a few things... pray for them and their ignorance Secondly ask them to take a look at Mount Rushmore.. every one of those people were homeschooled. Day O'Conner was homeschooled... and the list goes on... I know it wouldn't be polite to tell them ignorance is bliss beebemcel@... wrote: > In a message dated 8/16/00 7:55:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > teresav26@... writes: > > << Do they also believe the homeschooled > child who won the spelling bee this year is going to be unable to get a > job? >> > > actually, i believe 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of the national spelling > bee were all homeschoolers--interesting, isn't it?????? > brigit > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2000 Report Share Posted August 18, 2000 Karla, Someone's grandmother once said " You can't fight ignorance. " its true, close-minded people say close-minded things, even to young people (that's what makes them ignorant-imho) So chin up, your giving your heart and soul to what you think is best for your son and for that he is very lucky. Having had that parental devotion will help him accomplish his life goals later on. Not some I told-you-so nay-sayer next door. take care, Bonnie ARGH. I'm SO MAD right now. The neighbors told my 9 year old son that he will never be able to find a job because he's homeschooled, and that he is missing out on too much by not being in public school. How dare they!!! That makes me SO MAD. ARRRRGGGHHH. Why is it that people think if you are different from them that makes you WRONG? Karla in Indiana PS I can hardly wait until Noah is old enough to send them his first pay stub. Cuz this kid is going places. Problem is, they're so old they'll probably be pushing up daisies by then. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2002 Report Share Posted July 10, 2002 In a message dated 7/10/02 7:26:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Scherb@... writes: << OH except that the guy next door named his dog JJ. We will see what the future brings. >> HE NAMED HIS DOG JJ? LOL LOL LOL Is that a form of flattery or is he poking fun ? Gail :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2002 Report Share Posted July 10, 2002 Thank goodness we have had no problem about the kids with the neighbors. OH except that the guy next door named his dog JJ. We will see what the future brings. There were 5 empty lots on our street--2 houses have been started in the last 2 weeks. We live on a cul-d-sac-only 3 houses iin the circle so far. & Garry, parents of (11 ds), (10 ds), JJ (8 ds/autism/celiac), (7 ds/ADHD/Celiac), and Esther (5 ds). All adopted. ---------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2002 Report Share Posted July 10, 2002 Tell him you named your plunger after him Kathy Re: neighbors I don't think it is flattery. This is the guy who made a fuss when we painted the house yellow!! LOL & Garry, parents of (11 ds), (10 ds), JJ (8 ds/autism/celiac), (7 ds/ADHD/Celiac), and Esther (5 ds). All adopted. >HE NAMED HIS DOG JJ? LOL LOL LOL Is that a form of flattery or is he >poking fun ? >Gail :-) > -------------------------------------------------- Checkout our homepage for information, bookmarks, and photos of our kids. Share favorite bookmarks, ideas, and other information by including them. Don't forget, messages are a permanent record of the archives for our list. -------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2002 Report Share Posted July 10, 2002 I don't think it is flattery. This is the guy who made a fuss when we painted the house yellow!! LOL & Garry, parents of (11 ds), (10 ds), JJ (8 ds/autism/celiac), (7 ds/ADHD/Celiac), and Esther (5 ds). All adopted. >HE NAMED HIS DOG JJ? LOL LOL LOL Is that a form of flattery or is he >poking fun ? >Gail :-) > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 -Just had a visit yesterday from my closest neighbor - she wanted to know if we had a goat. Now you know that is just what I need after 5 yers of living on a goat farm. She kept saying that she was hearing a goat in our house. I finally realized what it was- the weather is cool so the windows are open. Elie has a Sesame Street goes to Israel tape that he has been playing over and over - there is a goat in the tape and he has played that sound so often the neighbor thought we bought him a goat!!!! She was only curious- not nasty or upset. Sara _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2002 Report Share Posted July 13, 2002 In a message dated 7/12/02 10:33:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pastmidvale@... writes: > Elie has a Sesame Street goes to Israel tape that he has been playing > over and over - there is a goat in the tape and he has played that sound so > often the neighbor thought we bought him a goat!!!! She was only curious- > not nasty or upset. ROTFLOL Sara!!!!! That's hysterical!!! Hey, we live in the city and our neighbors had a pot belly pig!!!! So not so impossible anyway, eh?? LOL Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2002 Report Share Posted July 13, 2002 In a message dated 7/13/02 8:39:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, DPLigon@... writes: > d listening to music and or singing! What is > it about music? The only sounds eminating from Maddie's windows is Barney!!!!!! ;-) Oh yea, and lots of ball dribbling sounds!!! Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2002 Report Share Posted July 13, 2002 Just love this picture, , singing happily to his music by the window, Elie, listening to his tape by the window, open those windows higher moms cause these sounds are the sounds everyone needs to hear!! Even the goats on Sesame Street!! I love thinking of those guys feeling peaceful and listening to music and or singing! What is it about music? A blessing for us too, Dawn , s mom -- In @y..., " sara cohen " <pastmidvale@h...> wrote: > -Just had a visit yesterday from my closest neighbor - she wanted to know if > we had a goat. Now you know that is just what I need after 5 yers of living > on a goat farm. She kept saying that she was hearing a goat in our house. > I finally realized what it was- the weather is cool so the windows are > open. Elie has a Sesame Street goes to Israel tape that he has been playing > over and over - there is a goat in the tape and he has played that sound so > often the neighbor thought we bought him a goat!!!! She was only curious- > not nasty or upset. > > Sara > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2002 Report Share Posted July 13, 2002 Donna, too, Barney that is! I would love to see little Maddie dribbling that ball, ( can eat and throw the ball, away from us that is!!!!) take care Donna, Dawn -- In @y..., duffey48@a... wrote: > In a message dated 7/13/02 8:39:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, DPLigon@m... > writes: > > > > d listening to music and or singing! What is > > it about music? > > The only sounds eminating from Maddie's windows is Barney!!!!!! ;- ) Oh > yea, and lots of ball dribbling sounds!!! > Donna > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2002 Report Share Posted July 16, 2002 --The interesting thing is that we lived on a goat farm while in Hershey for 5 years. AND I want a miniture goat but I haven't figured out how to fence the goat inside our fenced yard to keep a nanny from eating my garden things. So no goat as yet!! just a tape of one played over and over and over and over................ Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 In a message dated 8/7/03 1:13:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rybabysmom@... writes: > Directly across the street is a house that they use for adults w/ > problems such as Down Syndrome. Another neighbor has an AS son. > Another neighbor has two kids. One w/ ADHD(extreme) and the other > simply delayed. And the list goes on. So we fit right in. lol a > Wow, a!! I sometimes wish I could transplant my friends here into our neighborhood so we would blend right in. Roxanna ôô What doesn't kill us Makes us really mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Roxanna, You might like it here. We have no neighbors. We are way way back off the street -- our driveway is nearly half a mile long. The people " next door " are up near the street. in Massachusetts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Theresa what a dream!! can you imagine how wonderful the school would be Dawn Oh, Roxanna! I wish you could move to my neighborhood, but we've got our share of snooty Stepford wives. The thought occurred to me to acquire land for a new subdivision called Aspie Hills, where you could spin, pick, growl, etc. to your heart's content. Just need the $$'s. Theresa But I do long for the day we could afford to move out of here and live on our own lot away from any neighbors. we seem to have scored a really nasty group here. I don't think it's just us either - I think they are just a bunch of really ugly people. Roxanna ôô Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2003 Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 > The other one's kids (this is the next door-on our > duplex and the kids across the street where one is > demon spawn and we don't allow our kids to play with > them) were outside our front porch with paint guns > (the high tech things with the paint pellets) > unsupervised. (The mom next door left them-ages 12, 8, > and 7). So Tom was inside and said something about if > anything of ours was ruined by paint, he was goint to > call the police and someone was going to jail. (He > never went out and said it directly to them or even > step out of the house.) But when the woman returned, > they told her that Tom had told them he was going to > call the police and they were going to jail! > Melinda, I don't think Tom did or said anything wrong at all. What could the police do to him for saying it anyway? Roxanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 my bag, she has my pencil and it is the only one I can use!! - No it is my pencil, it is the only one I can use!!!! No - I know it is mine. She chewed my shirt. He banged into me when he was spinnig!! Dear Dawn: This sounds like my house . . . Actually, with all the recent complains about neighbors, my own comments about " Stepford Wives " , I've got some good news to report. Some new neighbors moved in next door. The boy was in 's kidergarten class. They're going in second now and they play together now. He also has a 9 year old sister that's not too old to play with my girls. There's also a 4 year old boy next to them, and a 4 year old girl next to them who come over and play and vice versa. My girls are 7, 6 and 3, so they are in between. So it's starting to feel like more of a neighborhood, and I'm feeling a little less isolated. Also, my two older girls went to " Creativity Camp " last week, where they had art lessons, acting lessons, learned about fairy lore, made houses for fairies out of nature, etc., etc. It was right up their alley, so to speak. They had the best time! Theresa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 In a message dated 8/13/03 11:18:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, @... writes: > Also, my two older girls went to > " Creativity Camp " last week, where they had art lessons, acting lessons, > learned about fairy lore, made houses for fairies out of nature, etc., > etc. It was right up their alley, so to speak. They had the best time! > Where did you find this? Sounds like something my own dd would like. Roxanna ô¿ô Autism Happens... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Someone complained to the city, and > they had it towed...cost me 350 dollars and had to have it towed back to the > house. I cussed one man out and he swore he didn't do it, but I still think it > was him.... That really sucks! I think in my case it is better not to know for sure, that way I don't hold a grudge against them. Marta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Someone complained to the city, and > they had it towed...cost me 350 dollars and had to have it towed back to the > house. I cussed one man out and he swore he didn't do it, but I still think it > was him.... That really sucks! I think in my case it is better not to know for sure, that way I don't hold a grudge against them. Marta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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