Happy Halloween!!

 This poem was sent to me in an email and I wanted to share it here on Halloween Night.

 Let the Children Be

‘Twas Halloween night and all through the sky,

The clouds hid the moon as the bats glided by.

I was dressed all in white in my mama’s old sheet,

Walking with friends down the ghost-haunted street.

All the kids were dressed in bright costumed array,

While flashlights and street lights guided our way.

We giggled and laughed as we hurried to each door,

Ringing or knocking, then laughing some more.

There were pumpkins aglow and skeletons dangling,

Scarecrows and shadows and silver chains clanging.

Grownups in masked faces opened doors in greeting,

As we stood with our bags and waited for treating.

Some people say that we should not have this night,

That too many kids are harmed by the sights or the fright

But it’s the one time a year when we can pretend to be

Someone else for a while, not you - not even me.

Let them celebrate now, as the bats glide on by,

For childhood is brief, like the blink of an eye.

Listen to their laughter and let the children be

Someone else for a while, not you and not even me.

Poem ©Judith Lindberg

 

So let’s put the fun back in Halloween for our kids and let them be kids like we got to be!!

Have a fun and spooky night!!

 

**Tags by Angela**

Parenting….

Sometimes being a parent just isn’t easy.  Especially with teens.  I am beginning to think it was much easier when they were smaller, even when babies.  But teens are like a mood ring that changes colors all the time and you just never know what the color is going to be for the day.

My son is really trying my patience as of late.  He has not been turning his school work in or taking chapter tests at the end.  I have to log his hours each Friday and I ALWAYS check the progress page to see due dates to see if something is due, if he completed it and turned it in.  He tells me he does when I ask, I log the hours and didn’t think twice about it since it take the teachers sometimes weeks to enter the grades.  But I happen to check his sent folder in his account with the school and he didn’t.

For those who are new to my blog and don’t know me very well, my son goes to public school from home over the computer.  I really think this is a great program and opportunity for any student.   Especially for my son with him being AdHd.

Frustrated to no end with my daughter!

Who ever said parenting was easy?  I know if there was a person they should be hung by their toe nails!!

 My daughter has had a problem with a kid on the bus who grabbed her butt last year and this year has said and done some unappropriate fascial expressions.  She didn’t want to go to the school initally because he is a special needs but that doesn’t give anyone an excuse to behave or sexually harrass someone.  They dealt with it and it was handled.  Not a problem all summer long.   So she went to the principal last month about a few issues, and they handled it.  But the kid keeps bothering her.  Told other students she went to the school about it those kids harassing her now.  So the kid isn’t suppose to look at her or sit behind her but he does. 

So I get a call from the principal this morning and to my dismay she wrote a letter to him regarding this kid still bothering her and wanted to talk to me about it.  Honestly I had NO idea!!  Nice to be caught off guard like that.  He spoke to the kids mom about it and she really believe’s he doesn’t know what he is doing and will speak to him again and the principal is going to talk to him again.  He wanted me aware of the situation.  I explained to him that in all honestly after him grabbing her ass last year she just isn’t going to be comfortable around him period.  I explain she needs to ignore and not feed into it.  But chooses to continue to push and hash it out and frankly the drama and attention needs to stop!   You have no idea how much I wanted to go to that school and pick her up and bring her home and say we are done, enroll her into the program my son is in for the rest of the year so she graduates but she insists on wanting to stay in school with her friends. 

Its not that I don’t feel for my daughter I do.  She is two months away from being 18.  Obviously she wants to handle this her own way and on her own thus us not knowing about the letter.  But she has to stop doing this to herself and move on!  He is only on the bus after school.  So sit in the front, put him in the back and be done with it.  She don’t have to walk past him.  Then its a done deal.  But NOOOOOO that would just make too much sense.

Frankly I am sick of it.  She acts in school so upset and dramatic they wanted her to see the school social worker, at home insists and acts just fine.  So I just don’t get it.  I love my daughter with all my heart and soul but she has to learn to not let things get to her.  Those kids will keep bothering her as long as she reacts the way she is and being upset all the time.  It just like in grade school when lil Timmy calls you names and you cry and all the kids laugh.  Every-time they tease, they get a reaction they want, so don’t react.  Buckle up, walk away.  When they are not getting the reaction they desire it will go away! 

I offered to take her to see someone and she argued and fought with me that she didn’t need to see anyone and refused to go, well baby cakes  then knock it off at school!!! 

Wine Sorbets??

Good heavens I was reading and come across a website that is wine sorbets.  Goodness gracious can you imagine?  I think I heard of it all now.  As if parents don’t have enough to worry about with their teens that there is such a thing as wine sorbets.   So what is there going to be a freezer case in the wine isle at the grocery store now? 

I am not a wine drinker, although I have my days where I wish I did.  I have read articles that say a glass of wine is good for your health and your heart.  But I never knew there was such a thing..  Did you?  I want to know why my grocery store don’t have them!!

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