Eb - do you go to a chain? I've been looking at LA Fitness and the Community Center here because they both have drop-in daycare. Not sure which to go with though.
I do Lifetime Fitness. I chose it based on the childcare centers. It's really fun for him. They have a park outside if the weather is nice, basketball courts, computer lab, a huge indoor maze and yoga and zumba classes. He stays very busy.
I've also heard good things about 24 Hour Fitness, Lifetime just worked well because it's right across the street from his preschool and our grocery stores. I don't think there's even a 24 Hour Fitness around us.
Ah! They have some great activities for kids! I might look into that one too; there's one about six miles from here. Thanks!
I do Lifetime Fitness. I chose it based on the childcare centers. It's really fun for him. They have a park outside if the weather is nice, basketball courts, computer lab, a huge indoor maze and yoga and zumba classes. He stays very busy.
I've also heard good things about 24 Hour Fitness, Lifetime just worked well because it's right across the street from his preschool and our grocery stores. I don't think there's even a 24 Hour Fitness around us.
Ah! They have some great activities for kids! I might look into that one too; there's one about six miles from here. Thanks!
I forget where you live! If you end up signing up, PM me. It might be mine.
I love my kids, but I have had precious little time away from them.
I have spent only a single night away since the girls were born. They are three.
H and I have never had a night together without the kids. D is five and a half.
Having the girls in school just 9 hours and change has been a much needed relief. I haven't had any balance. None. I have spent way too much time with my kids. I love them, but being able to bake a pie or make brownies in an empty house is absolute bliss.
Post by stephm0188 on Sept 30, 2013 23:14:24 GMT -5
I LOVE that my kid is in school full time. It's fucking fantastic. I pack his lunch, push him onto the school bus, and practically skip back inside the house because for the first time in 5.5 years I am FREEEEE. I can poop in private and shower in peace without worrying about him painting my family room tables. (Hey, it's happened.) I can eat a leisurely lunch without having to listen to him complain about how he doesn't like the black stuff on his chicken and his ketchup is too red. Grocery shopping is pretty awesome when you don't have a kid insisting on buying every junk food item at his eye level. I can have coffee with friends without having someone interrupt me to say that someone took his toy. I can respond to customer emails in blissful peace without him asking if he can play games on Disney Jr Huh huh huh can he can he how about now? My house is finally clean, top to bottom, for the first time in years.
So yeah, I feel like I have my life back, and that's pretty awesome. When he gets off the bus, I'm ready to cut the crusts off his sandwich and play six consecutive rounds of Chutes and Ladders.
I haven't talked to my dad in over a month after he ignored me the whole ride home from the last soccer game. He went and sat with my ex and my FIL instead. It really hurt and I'm not feeling up to amend things at the moment.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Sept 30, 2013 23:18:58 GMT -5
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
And apparently you eat in feedlots.
I couldn't read when I was 5 and now I am fully awesome.
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
Mine runs around the house with a paper shopping bag over his head. I don't believe him to be gifted.
I have an interview tomorrow for the position I currently hold (only for the past month) I am nervous as fuck for no reason and drinking beer by the fistful to calm down. NMS usually but I am pretty anxious about this whole thing and will be really bummed if I lose the position because I am not good at interviews.
My boss is in my court but I have two VPs to impress as well. blech
Any good interview/calm my damn nerves advice?
I have an interview tomorrow too! The best advice that I got for this time around is to match the cadence of your response to the person who asked the question. I am really going to try to remember that because sometimes I speak to quickly.
Good luck tomorrow! Sending you good vibes from an internet stranger.
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
Can most kids read a five? (Not all of you with gifted kids!)
David will be five in November and he's barely learning to sound out words, far from reading. And my kid's fucking smart as HELL! lol
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
And apparently you eat in feedlots.
I couldn't read when I was 5 and now I am fully awesome.
Fucking iPad! I was the only person in high school to break 700 on the verbal SATs, damn it!
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
Can most kids read a five? (Not all of you with gifted kids!)
David will be five in November and he's barely learning to sound out words, far from reading. And my kid's fucking smart as HELL! lol
In real life and on here? Seems like maybe. But I don't know jack about teaching kids to read! Or teaching in general, I guess lol.
Fucking iPad! I was the only person in high school to break 700 on the verbal SATs, damn it!
I got 720 on the GRE verbal section, and 35 on the ACT reading/verbal. SHAZAM! Take THAT, gifted program.
Can't for the life of me remember my gre scores. Just that my advisor literally LAUGHED at my math scores and told me, "honey, that's what calculators are for." :/
I got 720 on the GRE verbal section, and 35 on the ACT reading/verbal. SHAZAM! Take THAT, gifted program.
Can't for the life of me remember my gre scores. Just that my advisor literally LAUGHED at my math scores and told me, "honey, that's what calculators are for." :/
Can most kids read a five? (Not all of you with gifted kids!)
David will be five in November and he's barely learning to sound out words, far from reading. And my kid's fucking smart as HELL! lol
In real life and on here? Seems like maybe. But I don't know jack about teaching kids to read! Or teaching in general, I guess lol.
David's in a pretty awesome preschool and they're still sounding out words in his 4's classes (he's always the oldest in his class because of his birthday). I think all of ML's gifted children are skewing your views, lol.
I have always loved reading, it was one of the only things I truly enjoyed and excelled at and I wasn't reading at 5. No way.
I feedlots appropriate to say here that I am a professor, and my dumbass kid can't read yet. She's five. Also? I was NOT in the gifted program in school. Because I can't do math. Full. Fucking. Circle.
There, there. You were probably just gifted in a different area.
Can most kids read a five? (Not all of you with gifted kids!)
David will be five in November and he's barely learning to sound out words, far from reading. And my kid's fucking smart as HELL! lol
In real life and on here? Seems like maybe. But I don't know jack about teaching kids to read! Or teaching in general, I guess lol.
Now that I have my life back, I volunteer in the school library with the kindergarten classes. I shelve the books and help the kids find books. There's a wide range. There are a few kids who can't write their name, and there are a few kids who are checking out beginner chapter books. Everyone else seems to fall in the middle. They're learning sight words and phonics and starting to figure out how to sound out words.
Mine is reading a bit, but pretty much only when it suits him. Easy readers are toooooo haaaaaard but he can go through the lunch menu and identify everything on it so he can figure out if he wants to buy or pack. Priorities.
In real life and on here? Seems like maybe. But I don't know jack about teaching kids to read! Or teaching in general, I guess lol.
Now that I have my life back, I volunteer in the school library with the kindergarten classes. I shelve the books and help the kids find books. There's a wide range. There are a few kids who can't write their name, and there are a few kids who are checking out beginner chapter books. Everyone else seems to fall in the middle. They're learning sight words and phonics and starting to figure out how to sound out words.
Mine is reading a bit, but pretty much only when it suits him. Easy readers are toooooo haaaaaard but he can go through the lunch menu and identify everything on it so he can figure out if he wants to buy or pack. Priorities.
In all seriousness, I had 8 the same kids I taught in K in a gifted 5th grade class. Most of those kids couldn't read when they came to me in K but were kicking butt and taking names in 5th. It's okay that your 5 year old isn't reading yet.
In real life and on here? Seems like maybe. But I don't know jack about teaching kids to read! Or teaching in general, I guess lol.
David's in a pretty awesome preschool and they're still sounding out words in his 4's classes (he's always the oldest in his class because of his birthday). I think all of ML's gifted children are skewing your views, lol.
I have always loved reading, it was one of the only things I truly enjoyed and excelled at and I wasn't reading at 5. No way.
My kid can read.
His name. That's about it. And that's because I monogram the shit out of anything I can of his.
Another family related one. I've stopped calling family because I'm sick of it being a one way street. They will not call me for anything I'm always the one to do the calling. If they want to talk to me they can call me.