Posts Tagged ‘parents’
Wave At The Bus
Who doesn’t like embarrassing their kids? When the high school’s bus routes changed this year, 16-year-old Rain Price soon found out he’d be going right past his house every single morning. Much to his chagrin, he also found out his dad would be standing outside, waving. But his dad raised it a level and dressed up. Every. Single. Day. His mom took pictures every day, and they created a blog called Wave At The Bus, so the rest of us could enjoy them. However, it’ll take you about an hour to get through all those pictures on the blog (trust me on that one!), so somebody made an awesome video of all the costumes he wore:
Now, they had their own rules made up. He couldn’t repeat a costume. His son also didn’t know from day to day what he was going to be. He left the house at 7:10 and the bus drove past their home at 7:14, so he didn’t have a lot of time to get ready. They spent about $50 over the entire school year for these costumes. The neighbors actually got into the mix and gave them ideas and materials too!
Would you do this to your kids? What is the most embarrassing thing you’ve done to your kids or what did your parents do to you?
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Dinosaur Train New Episode!
We are huge fans of Dinosaur Train here, so I wanted to pass along that with the New Year, there are new episodes! In the all-new episode, “The Good Mom;” “Diamond Anniversary,” Mrs. Pteranodon meets fellow mom Millie Maiasaura, who is a little too over-protective of her kids. The two moms share some time comparing mothering methods in a play date at the Big Pond. And, Mr. and Mrs. Pteranodon decide to surprise each other with gifts on their anniversary. (Maiasaura, meaning “good mother lizard”, was a large duck-billed dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous. There is evidence that Maisaura lived in large nesting colonies and that the parents diligently cared for their young!)
This new episode will be premiering Monday, January 17 on PBS KIDS® (check your local listings).
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Parental Responsibility
People often wonder why kids are “so bad nowadays”. I really do think some of it comes down to parenting.
At both Madison’s school and Will’s school, I see kids coming out of cars with their coats not even zipped! Now, I live in Illinois where it has been hovering between 15-20 degrees all week. Not only are my kids zipped, they have hats, gloves, hoods up etc. Heck, they’d be in boots if there was enough snow for that right now. We aren’t talking eight graders here either — I’m seeing this will preschools and kindergardeners. You know, kids who don’t know better.
Another parent lets their kids out at 8:40 or earlier (this is preschool). The teachers don’t let the kids in till 8:50. Again, in 20 degree or less weather, are you nuts?
This isn’t engineering jobs or rocket science people! I just don’t get it at all. Another example of this is parents who go to Monday Night Football game and stay out late on Monday night, only to keep their kids out of school the next day because they were too tired to take them. The best is when these same parents tell their kids to lie and say they were sick. Seriously? What are we teaching our kids here?
Another annoyance of mine happens daily at Will’s school. We are suppose to line up (as parents) behind the orange cone that has your kids’ teacher’s name on it. Simple, right? Well, it’s now, what, December? Parents still aren’t doing this. They aren’t asking for engineering recruitment here. They are asking you to stand in line! You aren’t getting your kid any quicker than I’m getting mine by NOT listening. Most of the time, the teachers call the kids out who’s parents are doing what they are suppose to.
By no means am I a perfect parent. I’ve made a ton of mistakes along the way. However, if I don’t stand in line like I am suppose to, what am I teaching my kids? If I tell my kids to lie, what am I teaching my kids? If I don’t follow the rules of the road, what am I teaching my kids?
Kids learn by example. The watch what you as a parent does. If you don’t follow the rules, how do you expect your children too? Madison and I butt heads every single day. However, it’s for her own good (I hope she sees that when she’s older!). If I didn’t care, I’d let her do whatever she wanted.
And unfortunately I see a lot of that lately.
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