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I would say school today was like pulling teeth, but I was there when they had their various teeth extracted, and that was easy. (Well, except Eva's last baby tooth. The dentist came to me and went "It won't come out, and my job isn't to traumatize this child" and I sorta nodded but inside I was thinking "Meh, she's a kid, she'll get over it, yank it already!" but I didn't say that. It finally came out last week.) Two hours to get through two pages of math (the standard amount - and I don't ask them to do every problem, either!)
It was all "I don't wanna" and "$SISTER is annoying me" and "I lost my pen" and "Lemme tell this irrelevant joke! Ask a question! Fidget until I fall over!" and people scribbled on their pages and ripped of the edges and made little balls out of them and whined "I can't DO this" and then, three seconds into the explanation went "Oh, this is easy, why are you explaining this?" and at the end of it I went and played Mario RPG because I found a site where I can play it online.
And then we did science, which involved Deco Beads. And it was all "let's squish them until they fall apart!" and "let's bounce them!" and "let's whine and fuss and sulk at the single thing we're actually being asked to do!" and what ought to have been a short lesson took over an hour, and then I said they could have the remaining Deco Beads, and perhaps I should have been a little more circumspect because now there are beads all over the floor.
(Those things are really fun, though.)
Lather, rinse, repeat for history, and then Eva took a bath and dumped a whole bunch of Deco Beads in the water, and do you know that when those things expand in water you can't see them in water because they're 99% water at that time and refraction? Of course, you don't dare let them slip down the drain because they will clog the pipes, and now the floor and a lot of clothes are sopping wet.
And they went "We're so hungry!" and I went "Here's a huge list of food you can eat right now" and they didn't whine that none of it was to their taste", and they took all the food out and then they didn't eat any of it.
And then I said "Watch the potatoes while I run to the store to buy steak for dinner" and they went "Gee, let's not burn the house down" and turned the flame off, and when I got back home the potatoes were still raw. "Why isn't dinner ready yet???" Um, because you can't mash raw potato?
But, to their credit, when I said we had to spend half an hour cleaning the room of our choice, they didn't whine and fuss. This is because they were filling a tackle box with Deco Beads, but whatever, at least they were quiet.
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It was all "I don't wanna" and "$SISTER is annoying me" and "I lost my pen" and "Lemme tell this irrelevant joke! Ask a question! Fidget until I fall over!" and people scribbled on their pages and ripped of the edges and made little balls out of them and whined "I can't DO this" and then, three seconds into the explanation went "Oh, this is easy, why are you explaining this?" and at the end of it I went and played Mario RPG because I found a site where I can play it online.
And then we did science, which involved Deco Beads. And it was all "let's squish them until they fall apart!" and "let's bounce them!" and "let's whine and fuss and sulk at the single thing we're actually being asked to do!" and what ought to have been a short lesson took over an hour, and then I said they could have the remaining Deco Beads, and perhaps I should have been a little more circumspect because now there are beads all over the floor.
(Those things are really fun, though.)
Lather, rinse, repeat for history, and then Eva took a bath and dumped a whole bunch of Deco Beads in the water, and do you know that when those things expand in water you can't see them in water because they're 99% water at that time and refraction? Of course, you don't dare let them slip down the drain because they will clog the pipes, and now the floor and a lot of clothes are sopping wet.
And they went "We're so hungry!" and I went "Here's a huge list of food you can eat right now" and they didn't whine that none of it was to their taste", and they took all the food out and then they didn't eat any of it.
And then I said "Watch the potatoes while I run to the store to buy steak for dinner" and they went "Gee, let's not burn the house down" and turned the flame off, and when I got back home the potatoes were still raw. "Why isn't dinner ready yet???" Um, because you can't mash raw potato?
But, to their credit, when I said we had to spend half an hour cleaning the room of our choice, they didn't whine and fuss. This is because they were filling a tackle box with Deco Beads, but whatever, at least they were quiet.
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