I must confess...

[stashbin]

How old is your dd? Why is it your fault? Your dd should of know she had a project due. Where is her blame?

OMG!!! Read the entire thread if you want to know...I'm over it!

 

[pweyl36]

I too sit with my daughter when she does her homework. Although, I don't guide her to the right awnser. I sit with her and help her if she has any questions.
I don't pack her backpack in the morning. But I do pack her lunch.
Isn't doing these things on your own as a kid a gateway into doing much larger things on your own as an older kid?
Or are they just going to wake up one morning and all of the sudden be expected to do xyz because well..they are old enough now???

Small steps...

Iam right there with ya.

 

[mamacatnv]

OMG!!! Read the entire thread if you want to know...I'm over it!

I have a project that I HELPED DS with when he was in 4th grade. It was even my idea not his!
(oh dear, shame on me I better run to the Univ. to help DS with his finals because by helping him as a child I have doomed him to failure ) He read the book How to Eat Fried Worms at my suggestion because I read it when I was that age and he needed to do a project. We bought the big worms at the bait shop and then we went home and we prepared them the same way they had been prepared in the book (fried, boiled, ketchup & mustard, etc). Totally grossed his teacher out but he got an A.

I also got an A in DH's Accounting class when he was in college. The man is an engineer by trade/education and has no clue why one needs a debit and a credit. I'm an Accountant who does not have a clue what Algebra is or why one would need it, so we are well matched.

 

[Biscuitsmom31]

I have a story for you. My DS (5th grade at the time) had a project where he had to make a trojan horse. I was clueless. (I think I even posted on here to get ideas.) Well, my DS is a total slob about things. We made the horse out of poster board. He let me help with part of it and then he took off and did the rest on his own. It was bad. The top part (the part I "helped" with) looked nice and the rest was sloppy and held together with blue painters tape .

 

[stashbin]

(oh dear, shame on me I better run to the Univ. to help DS with his finals because by helping him as a child I have doomed him to failure ) He read the book How to Eat Fried Worms at my suggestion because I read it when I was that age and he needed to do a project. We bought the big worms at the bait shop and then we went home and we prepared them the same way they had been prepared in the book (fried, boiled, ketchup & mustard, etc). Totally grossed his teacher out but he got an A.

Gross!!!!! If I were the teacher that would have freaked me out! But I must confess....I would have given the child an A just for originality.

 

[islangrl]

have let some posters get my panties in a wad over nothing.

Speaking of panties... okay not the story you are looking for, but I did post one about helping my brother... just a sucky mom story.

Yesterday DD4 wore a pretty Christmas dress to school. I always get her dressed in the living room. I dropped her off at school, ran by the grocery store and came home.
When I got home, I started picking up the morning disaster, and OMG, there was her underwear still sitting on the floor! I had totally forgotten to put them on her. It was 80 degrees yesterday, so she had no tights or anything! Normally, this kid would have let me know, but she was so excited about the dress that I guess she forgot too.

So, I guess, I'm out of the running for the mother of the year award too!

 

[stashbin]

Speaking of panties... okay not the story you are looking for, but I did post one about helping my brother... just a sucky mom story.

Yesterday DD4 wore a pretty Christmas dress to school. I always get her dressed in the living room. I dropped her off at school, ran by the grocery store and came home.
When I got home, I started picking up the morning disaster, and OMG, there was her underwear still sitting on the floor! I had totally forgotten to put them on her. It was 80 degrees yesterday, so she had no tights or anything! Normally, this kid would have let me know, but she was so excited about the dress that I guess she forgot too.

So, I guess, I'm out of the running for the mother of the year award too!

Oh My!!!! That is hilarious. I guess she learned what "Going Commando" means at a very early age!
I don't know what the deal is with my dd4 but she hates underwear! She complains that they go up her tush but I know they don't because they are the right size!!!