OK - so today I volunteered at Hunter's Cub Scout Day Camp. I wasn't with Hunter's group, but he was fine with that, so I was fine with it. When I was told that I was going to be with the Webelos...I was cool with that. I mean, these are the oldest cub scouts - so this should be a fun day. These boys are going into the 4th/5th grades - and most have been scouts since the 1st grade. This should be a piece of cake.
Um...no. This group of boys was the most disrespectful I've ever come across. Now, they weren't fighting or using horrible language (tho', there were a couple of times). They just flat out didn't listen. They spoke over the leader, they completely ignored instruction and they just flat out didn't give a flip what anyone in authority said. Now, I would expect two or three boys in a group to be this way. But this was EVERY.SINGLE.BOY in our group. There were 12.
How does this happen? Why are kids being raised to not give a rip about respect?
So frustrated...and sad...and DETERMINED to raise my kids to be respectful!
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Sunday, July 05, 2009
It's a whirlwind of activity...or will be tomorrow!
So, today is probably the last semi-restful, semi-relaxing day to be had for the next two months. I still have to get laundry done, but I'm planning to chill out as much as I can!
Beginning tomorrow: Cub Scout day camp starts for Hunter. I'll be driving the boys there and back nearly every day - with the exception of Tues. and Wed. mornings. It's a 35 min. drive one way. I will have to have Tanner and Lizzie to the sitter early - take the boys and get back to pick them up. Its back in the afternoon to do it again!! A plus for the two youngers: it's play date central this week for them. Thursday, we (Lizzie, Tanner and I) will spend the whole day at the camp volunteering...should be fun! I hope!!!
In between all the driving, I'm working on getting the house ready for company coming in next Sunday. Can't wait to see Bruce, Andrea and the boys!! While Bruce and Andrea are here, I still have to get ready for our vacation - so it will be laundry, laundry, laundry! And we have to determine what else we need to take, besides our clothing!
Then it's off to WV!! WHOOHOO! Family Reunion...we're super stoked! Jeremy has to leave on that Thursday headed to ????, hmm..I'm not even sure where...somewhere for work. The kid and I will leave early Sunday morning headed home - my first solo drive home with the kids. Should be interesting. Probably a good thing we're splitting it into two days! Jeremy will be gone during that next week.
Then it's Bible School the next week. Schmitz visit the following week - and then it's two weeks until we move.
Ok, I'm tired just typing it all up...I guess all this rain has been a good thing - it's kept us at home and rested up.
Beginning tomorrow: Cub Scout day camp starts for Hunter. I'll be driving the boys there and back nearly every day - with the exception of Tues. and Wed. mornings. It's a 35 min. drive one way. I will have to have Tanner and Lizzie to the sitter early - take the boys and get back to pick them up. Its back in the afternoon to do it again!! A plus for the two youngers: it's play date central this week for them. Thursday, we (Lizzie, Tanner and I) will spend the whole day at the camp volunteering...should be fun! I hope!!!
In between all the driving, I'm working on getting the house ready for company coming in next Sunday. Can't wait to see Bruce, Andrea and the boys!! While Bruce and Andrea are here, I still have to get ready for our vacation - so it will be laundry, laundry, laundry! And we have to determine what else we need to take, besides our clothing!
Then it's off to WV!! WHOOHOO! Family Reunion...we're super stoked! Jeremy has to leave on that Thursday headed to ????, hmm..I'm not even sure where...somewhere for work. The kid and I will leave early Sunday morning headed home - my first solo drive home with the kids. Should be interesting. Probably a good thing we're splitting it into two days! Jeremy will be gone during that next week.
Then it's Bible School the next week. Schmitz visit the following week - and then it's two weeks until we move.
Ok, I'm tired just typing it all up...I guess all this rain has been a good thing - it's kept us at home and rested up.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
The Possibilities are ENDLESS!
I've pretty much got the olders schooling stuff figured out - we'll be using Abeka for most of the curriculum - throwing in Handwriting Without Tears for Lizzie's printing -and probably Hunter's cursive (not totally sure about the cursive, yet - may just stick with Abeka??)
We'll be tackling Science and History as a group. I'll have to adapt for Lizzie (we'll use 3rd grade stuff), but really can't do that until we actually have the curriculum in hand, so we'll get to that.
Tanner will be the interesting one - I'm hoping he just sponges off of them on a lot of this stuff, but of course, there are the basics we need to be sure to get covered. And there are SO MANY ways to do it - deciding HOW is what's holding me up!
I'm leaning heavily toward Letter Of The Week -for the alphabet anyway. I believe there's some math thrown in there as well. This program looks fairly simple and like a lot of fun! I think he will enjoy it!
I'm curious to see how it will be schooling them all in the same room - Tanner's will be a lot more hands on - chatting and such..we may have to make a little spot elsewhere or him and me!
When I was looking into this last year, I had barely scratched the surface of information...well, I've scratched it now, but I've barely removed the first layer...there is SO much out there!!
Ok, done with my rambling for tonight.
We'll be tackling Science and History as a group. I'll have to adapt for Lizzie (we'll use 3rd grade stuff), but really can't do that until we actually have the curriculum in hand, so we'll get to that.
Tanner will be the interesting one - I'm hoping he just sponges off of them on a lot of this stuff, but of course, there are the basics we need to be sure to get covered. And there are SO MANY ways to do it - deciding HOW is what's holding me up!
I'm leaning heavily toward Letter Of The Week -for the alphabet anyway. I believe there's some math thrown in there as well. This program looks fairly simple and like a lot of fun! I think he will enjoy it!
I'm curious to see how it will be schooling them all in the same room - Tanner's will be a lot more hands on - chatting and such..we may have to make a little spot elsewhere or him and me!
When I was looking into this last year, I had barely scratched the surface of information...well, I've scratched it now, but I've barely removed the first layer...there is SO much out there!!
Ok, done with my rambling for tonight.
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