Well, hot damn! School started today

[cloudy]

I love my youngest dearly, but I'd gone past tired of hearing him whine about being bored....especially when the spoiled rotten brat has an XBOX 360, a Playstation, and a Wii, and tons of games to go with them.

We also have a pool, a trampoline, a swingset, he has two different scooters plus his bicycle, and he's bored.

If butthead would just go back to work, I'd have the house all to myself for the first time in months.

 

[impressive]

I'm counting the days! I haven't been alone in this house (or anywhere else) since May. *sigh*

 

[glynndah]

No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!! I"m not ready to go back to school yet! I've got another whole week left to play.

 

[iluvyou3638]

.....school starts this early in august?!

 

[JagFarlane]

.....school starts this early in august?!

LOL thats what I was thinking! Growing up in NJ it didn't start till right around Labor Day weekend, and I know here in VA its end of August

 

[3113]

.....school starts this early in august?!

LOL thats what I was thinking! Growing up in NJ it didn't start till right around Labor Day weekend, and I know here in VA its end of August

Ditto! School, to me, is a September thing. Second week of August is waaaaay early. But that sure explains all the "back to school" specials I started seeing in July--and wondered about.

I'm not jealous of kids going back to school, but I have noticed that there's a lot of cool stuff for lockers now that weren't around when I was a kid. Like these--Shelf, mirrors, holders, dry-erase boards....

http://images.containerstore.com/MEDIA/ProductCatalog/102475/JanusLockerShelf_m.jpghttp://images.containerstore.com/MEDIA/ProductCatalog/88875/SilverMeshVanityBin_m.jpghttp://images.containerstore.com/MEDIA/ProductCatalog/102636/HopscotchVanityBin_m.jpghttp://images.containerstore.com/MEDIA/ProductCatalog/19706/19706.jpghttp://images.containerstore.com/MEDIA/ProductCatalog/97060/8'x10'MagDEFlowerPop_m.jpg

All with magnets on the back so you can gussy up your locker. Wish I'd had these things for my locker when I had a locker!

 

[3113]

I love my youngest dearly, but I'd gone past tired of hearing him whine about being bored....especially when the spoiled rotten brat has an XBOX 360, a Playstation, and a Wii, and tons of games to go with them.

We also have a pool, a trampoline, a swingset, he has two different scooters plus his bicycle, and he's bored.

Why didn't you put him to work every time he said he was bored? I'd have had him cleaning up the garage, doing laundry, scrubbing the toilet bowl...I think that would have stopped his complaints real quick

 

[JagFarlane]

Why didn't you put him to work every time he said he was bored? I'd have had him cleaning up the garage, doing laundry, scrubbing the toilet bowl...I think that would have stopped his complaints real quick

Ha! Thats how it was when we were kids...and we weren't even complaining of being bored [particularly when one parent was home so we could go in the pool. We'd spend hours upon hours in the pool. My hair was always bleach blonde from the sun and the pool chemicals ]

 

[redpaint]

Scool starts next week here. We have wacthed two of our Grandkids all summer while their Mom works. Wont get much better when school does start. I'll have to play school bus then and take them to school, pick them up from school, make sure home work gets done before Mom gets home.

Tell me agine why I was in a hurry for retirement?

 

[buxxxom]

School starts here the last week in August. This is the third year we've been returned to a more traditional school calendar, getting out in June and returning late in the summer. Before that, the high schools were complaining that this calendar interfered with end of course testing during the Christmas season, and got some legislation passed to change the summer vacation to make it start in mid-May with the return the last week in July. Lots of parents didn't like that, but the touristy places around, like the Grand Strand, Outer Banks, Carowinds, etc had a hard time filling summertime jobs. These had traditionally been filled by high school kids, and for a month, while other people from other states visited, there was no one to lifeguard, work the concessions, etc.

Anyway, money talks louder than the school board's recommendations, so a new law was passed to mandate that school here can't start any earlier than Aug. 25, and must be out by June 10. There are very few teacher workdays now. Some loopholes exist, specifically in the mountain counties that receive lots of snow to let them go back earlier, but generally we're all in the traditional calendar now.

We also have back to school weekends the first weekend in August in which no sales tax is charged on school related items: paper, pencils, notebooks and such but it also extends to clothing, computers, shoes, etc. There were many times when school started long before the tax free weekend! I like the more traditional calendar. It feels better.

 

[carrie-on]

Why didn't you put him to work every time he said he was bored? I'd have had him cleaning up the garage, doing laundry, scrubbing the toilet bowl...I think that would have stopped his complaints real quick

LOL I laughed when I read this because I used to tell my girls when they were younger "If you can't find something to do, I will find something for you to do and you probably won't like it!" After the first 2 or 3 times of finding the worst chores imaginable for them to do, I never heard of them being bored again. The funniest part is that the other day I overheard my daughter say that to her 13 Y/O and I heard her say "OH NO! I'm turning into my Mom!!" I just smiled at her!!

 

[rgraham666]

I suspect the difference has to do with the growing season. Summer holiday, so I understand, used to have to do with having kids out of school to help on the farm.

So the South, having a warmer and moister climate than most places, has the growing season earlier. So the kids get out and get back earlier. Other places, and Canada, summer vacation starts about the middle of June and returns after Labor Day.

My hypothesis based on my limited knowledge.

 

[graceanne]

.....school starts this early in august?!

Yeah. We don't start until September . . . 6th, I think.

Why didn't you put him to work every time he said he was bored? I'd have had him cleaning up the garage, doing laundry, scrubbing the toilet bowl...I think that would have stopped his complaints real quick

I do that. When the kids complain I find 'em chores. Their's always something to do around here.

LOL I laughed when I read this because I used to tell my girls when they were younger "If you can't find something to do, I will find something for you to do and you probably won't like it!" After the first 2 or 3 times of finding the worst chores imaginable for them to do, I never heard of them being bored again. The funniest part is that the other day I overheard my daughter say that to her 13 Y/O and I heard her say "OH NO! I'm turning into my Mom!!" I just smiled at her!!

Mirror, mirror on the wall. I am my mother, after all.

 

[tickledkitty]

Mine doesn't go back until the 27th.

 

[desertslave]

My manchild started on Monday (10th grade). I have a routine again, thank the gods! It's gonna be a tough year for him, lots of challenging classes.

For us it's the 'heat season.' Late May and June can easily be 105-112 or so. By August the monsoons are on, and it's 'moderated' to the lower 100's.

 

[jomar]

I love my youngest dearly, but I'd gone past tired of hearing him whine about being bored....especially when the spoiled rotten brat has an XBOX 360, a Playstation, and a Wii, and tons of games to go with them.

We also have a pool, a trampoline, a swingset, he has two different scooters plus his bicycle, and he's bored.

If butthead would just go back to work, I'd have the house all to myself for the first time in months.

Ahhh, the domestic life.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Ditto! School, to me, is a September thing. Second week of August is waaaaay early. But that sure explains all the "back to school" specials I started seeing in July--and wondered about.

I'm not jealous of kids going back to school, but I have noticed that there's a lot of cool stuff for lockers now that weren't around when I was a kid. Like these--Shelf, mirrors, holders, dry-erase boards....

For as long as I attended elementary and high school, 18 years in all (I flunked a lot) school started the day after Labor Day and ended on the last Friday in May. That was 36 weeks in all. We didn't have any kind of Spring Break, but we did have two weeks off, from the Saturday before Christmas until the Monday after New Year's Day.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

For as long as I attended elementary and high school, 18 years in all (I flunked a lot) school started the day after Labor Day and ended on the last Friday in May. That was 36 weeks in all. We didn't have any kind of Spring Break, but we did have two weeks off, from the Saturday before Christmas until the Monday after New Year's Day.

I go back September 2nd, I think. Guess I ought to look but don't really want to know!

 

[CeriseNoire]

I go back September 2nd, I think. Guess I ought to look but don't really want to know!

I go back Tuesday. Parent Info Day on the 15th. Students return on the 18th

 

[NoJo]

I'm counting the days! I haven't been alone in this house (or anywhere else) since May. *sigh*

My god! Where do you wank?

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Mine started back last week.

When I was a kid, we didn't start until about mid-August, so it's really only a couple of weeks difference. (and Rob, you are correct about growing season.)

 

[impressive]

My god! Where do you wank?

Shower. *nods*

 

[NoJo]

Shower. *nods*

Oh yes, of course, it's not like with men -- hot water + jizz = blocked drain

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Oh yes, of course, it's not like with men -- hot water + jizz = blocked drain

Never had that problem myself. Soap irritation, yeah. Blocked drain, uh-uh.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I love my youngest dearly, but I'd gone past tired of hearing him whine about being bored....especially when the spoiled rotten brat has an XBOX 360, a Playstation, and a Wii, and tons of games to go with them.

We also have a pool, a trampoline, a swingset, he has two different scooters plus his bicycle, and he's bored.

If butthead would just go back to work, I'd have the house all to myself for the first time in months.

Sheeeit. I wanna be in YOUR family. Feel free to adopt me and you won't have ANY complaints about boredom!

Might be a slight problem with the Oedipus Complex I'll have for you, though!

Never had that problem myself. Soap irritation, yeah. Blocked drain, uh-uh.

I'm so glad I'm not alone in this. I friggin' HATE getting erections when I'm in the shower and all soaped up! I tell any girl I'm with to just stroke it to the bottom edge of the head, but they never listen and then...urrrrrggggghhh...they think it's always a velvet glove for us, like in the movies!