My youngest today was puffing on a straw like it was a cigarette. I asked her what she was doing, playing innocent. She said she was pretending she was using one of those white things that’s orange on one end and has smoke coming out the other. I asked her not to act like she…
Tag: sports
Co-Ed Sports Make Me Crazy
Every year, my family’s school does a fund raiser involving the parents playing in a soccer tourney. There is a co-ed requirement, it is played on miniature fields, and the length of the games are abbreviated compared to normal soccer game. This year, I played in the tourney for my older daughter’s classroom. I have…
Plan B
When the hubby taught at a very low income school, he was constantly trying to get his students to understand the value of education. Many times these kids did not see education as the way out of their current situation, and the Kobe Bryants and Jerome O’Neil stories of getting recruited to the NBA out…
