5AF Parenting Thread

[Pavel Bure]

It's really disturbing how fortified public high schools are, at least down here. My kids have to pass through metal detectors (didn't have to do that at our previous district's schools) and the whole process to sign a kid out is crazy. First, the front office area is basically a fortified bunker. You get buzzed in, and no windows to break to gain entry. It's all steel doors and thick plexiglass. So I sign my kid out, and I have to give an exit pass to the security guard while driving off school property. This on top of a SRO.

But have you thought about the need for people to have guns?

[count2infinity]

At my kid’s school they had a game where they randomly stuck pickle cut outs around the building with tape and if a kid finds one, they get a pickle ornament. My kiddo found one today and she was stoked.

After dinner we were playing a game where one of us hides it and the other has to go find it. Of course, when my wife asked what we were doing my daughter said “it’s called hide the pickle, it’s sooooo fun. You and daddy can play if you want… but not until I’m in bed!!!”

We got a good laugh out of it.

[Morkle]

haha

[shafnutz05]

Oh man, that's so good

Lock that one away.

[count2infinity]

Today started 12 days of spirit at my daughter's elementary school. 2.5 weeks of themed days. What the actual f*ck...

Some of them are bizarre too... "Dress like the grinch" day. "wear holiday lights" day.

[Pavel Bure]

Today started 12 days of spirit at my daughter's elementary school. 2.5 weeks of themed days. What the actual f*ck...

Some of them are bizarre too... "Dress like the grinch" day. "wear holiday lights" day.

Yeah, it’s out of control. Today some kind of Rudolph **** reindeer or some **** day. I don’t have the energy for this.

Oh and some a-hole parent put their damn elf in a clear box and let their kid bring it to the school. Now my kids are asking, hard no.

[Nuge]

Today started 12 days of spirit at my daughter's elementary school. 2.5 weeks of themed days. What the actual f*ck...

Some of them are bizarre too... "Dress like the grinch" day. "wear holiday lights" day.

Yeah, it’s out of control. Today some kind of Rudolph **** reindeer or some **** day. I don’t have the energy for this.

Oh and some a-hole parent put their damn elf in a clear box and let their kid bring it to the school. Now my kids are asking, hard no.

My son told me the other day that some of the kids at preschool have elves at their house. I told him “that’s nice. We don’t”.

[mac5155]

Today started 12 days of spirit at my daughter's elementary school. 2.5 weeks of themed days. What the actual f*ck...

Some of them are bizarre too... "Dress like the grinch" day. "wear holiday lights" day.

Luckily it's only 12. Ours started December 1.

[mac5155]

Today was shine like a snowflake day lol. We wore a blue shirt..

[Pavel Bure]

Today started 12 days of spirit at my daughter's elementary school. 2.5 weeks of themed days. What the actual f*ck...

Some of them are bizarre too... "Dress like the grinch" day. "wear holiday lights" day.

Yeah, it’s out of control. Today some kind of Rudolph **** reindeer or some **** day. I don’t have the energy for this.

Oh and some a-hole parent put their damn elf in a clear box and let their kid bring it to the school. Now my kids are asking, hard no.

My son told me the other day that some of the kids at preschool have elves at their house. I told him “that’s nice. We don’t”.

Yeah we started doing it so the kids wouldn’t be separated from their peers. We don’t do anything fancy but they love it.

[CBear3]

Daughter's on the middle school B basketball team. So far they're 4-2 I think. Last night she played against some of the girls from her rec-ish type league from last year, and of course the girl that always fouled out last year laid a shoulder through my daughter and sent her to the ground. I literally had to pull my wife back down to her seat when the ref called it a travel.

I'm not sure how I became the cool headed one.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Mama Bear etc. etc.

[DigitalGypsy66]

So my wife is walking through her 5th grade classroom after her students have gone home for the day. She spots this book left behind on a student's desk:



She thinks, "Wow, a book about ice hockey and skaters here, in Myrtle Beach?" So she opens it up and reads some of it. Basically, it's a lurid romance novel. Lots of "making me wet" type stuff and "I didn't want her to feel my boner" talk. And presumably a lot worse, from the reviews of it.

Looking at the cover, it looks like a young adult novel. But yikes.

Neither of us are advocates for book banning, but I wonder if the parents know what's up with this book? It didn't come from the school or public library, so someone bought it/gave it to the students. Glancing at the cover, it looks pretty innocuous. It's a 450 page book, which my wife at first glance was happy to see the student reading. Getting them to read anything that's not on a phone or tablet is an achievement.

[NTP66]

I'm reporting her school to the GOP immediately.

[CBear3]

Overprotective Dad alert:
Holy crap, just read the last bit of the excerpt on the Amazon page.
It's not YA, and I would absolutely have a problem with my 8th grader reading it, and I think my 5th grade boy would just be confused.

The cartoon artwork really does make you think YA, though. And Amazon's "like this" section has a lot of similar cartoony book covers. This feels like a Joe Camel thing to me...

[obhave]

Romance novels (sultry or rom-com) often have those cartoon covers now, which very bright covers. Erotica will still have things more stereotypical of romance novels.

So I looked at that and new it was a romance before I read the rest of the posts

[robbiestoupe]

Daughter's on the middle school B basketball team. So far they're 4-2 I think. Last night she played against some of the girls from her rec-ish type league from last year, and of course the girl that always fouled out last year laid a shoulder through my daughter and sent her to the ground. I literally had to pull my wife back down to her seat when the ref called it a travel.

I'm not sure how I became the cool headed one.

We just had our 3rd/4th grade rec league draft last night. Compared to last year I’m excited to work with these coaches. Everybody seems to want to teach the kids vs trying to win.

Problem is there are a few kids in this league that think they are playing football. One kid already punched another in the gut for no apparent reason. During tryouts ffs. I made sure I drafted none of the troublemakers, I don’t want to parent another 10 kids.

[mac5155]

So my wife is walking through her 5th grade classroom after her students have gone home for the day. She spots this book left behind on a student's desk:



She thinks, "Wow, a book about ice hockey and skaters here, in Myrtle Beach?" So she opens it up and reads some of it. Basically, it's a lurid romance novel. Lots of "making me wet" type stuff and "I didn't want her to feel my boner" talk. And presumably a lot worse, from the reviews of it.

Looking at the cover, it looks like a young adult novel. But yikes.

Neither of us are advocates for book banning, but I wonder if the parents know what's up with this book? It didn't come from the school or public library, so someone bought it/gave it to the students. Glancing at the cover, it looks pretty innocuous. It's a 450 page book, which my wife at first glance was happy to see the student reading. Getting them to read anything that's not on a phone or tablet is an achievement.

When I was in about fifth grade I conned my grandma into buying me a Sisqo CD with the Thong Song on it. Just saying grammy might have bought it thinking it's about hockey too lol

[CBear3]

Daughter's on the middle school B basketball team. So far they're 4-2 I think. Last night she played against some of the girls from her rec-ish type league from last year, and of course the girl that always fouled out last year laid a shoulder through my daughter and sent her to the ground. I literally had to pull my wife back down to her seat when the ref called it a travel.

I'm not sure how I became the cool headed one.

We just had our 3rd/4th grade rec league draft last night. Compared to last year I’m excited to work with these coaches. Everybody seems to want to teach the kids vs trying to win.

Problem is there are a few kids in this league that think they are playing football. One kid already punched another in the gut for no apparent reason. During tryouts ffs. I made sure I drafted none of the troublemakers, I don’t want to parent another 10 kids.

Yeah, I got sucked in to coaching my 10 yo's basketball team this year. We've hit the age where most think they no better than you, and some may actually have more basketball knowledge than me too. I'm not looking forward to it, but hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.

[shafnutz05]

So my wife is walking through her 5th grade classroom after her students have gone home for the day. She spots this book left behind on a student's desk:

She thinks, "Wow, a book about ice hockey and skaters here, in Myrtle Beach?" So she opens it up and reads some of it. Basically, it's a lurid romance novel. Lots of "making me wet" type stuff and "I didn't want her to feel my boner" talk. And presumably a lot worse, from the reviews of it.

Looking at the cover, it looks like a young adult novel. But yikes.

Neither of us are advocates for book banning, but I wonder if the parents know what's up with this book? It didn't come from the school or public library, so someone bought it/gave it to the students. Glancing at the cover, it looks pretty innocuous. It's a 450 page book, which my wife at first glance was happy to see the student reading. Getting them to read anything that's not on a phone or tablet is an achievement.

That's the second time I've seen that book in less than two weeks. We were at a birthday party a couple weeks ago and the one girls older sister had the exact same book. It caught my eye as looking interesting, and I did the same research and was shocked lol.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Proud papa tonight! My son got into Clemson! That's his first choice, and it's a lot tougher to get into than when I applied 30 years ago.

[MWB]

Congrats! Definitely gotten tougher there to get into.

[NTP66]

Congrats!

[skullman80]

Congrats!

[Sam's Drunk Dog]