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Wonder how long it will be before my son complains it won't stop crying?!! 
The "baby" will be arriving this afternoon!
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My "grandchild"!! 
Kirk is bringing home the interactive baby. It's for his health class. It will cry and record how long it takes him to respond to it, how he holds it and whether it experiences any sudden "jolts".
Normally, it takes nothing short of a bomb to wake Kirk up. I told him if I have to get up with that thing tonight, I am going to swat him upside the head to get his tushy out of bed to take care of it!! 
I have to go over to school today to pick them up...the "baby" isn't permitted to come home (or go back 
) on the bus. It even comes with a car seat!! 
Haven't buckled in one of them in years!!
Kirk is bringing home the interactive baby. It's for his health class. It will cry and record how long it takes him to respond to it, how he holds it and whether it experiences any sudden "jolts".
Normally, it takes nothing short of a bomb to wake Kirk up. I told him if I have to get up with that thing tonight, I am going to swat him upside the head to get his tushy out of bed to take care of it!! I have to go over to school today to pick them up...the "baby" isn't permitted to come home (or go back ) on the bus. It even comes with a car seat!! Haven't buckled in one of them in years!!They do that at my DS's school too. He'll have it next year.
DD did it last year, but they don't provide the babies. She just had to add a 5 pound bag of flour to a baby doll and carry it around with her.
I have a real problem with many of the aspects of this assignment. First of all, to require that these kids get a ride to school is wrong and probably not even legal, considering Pennsylvania requires the school districts to provide transportation. That would tick me off to no end. There is no way I can pick up my son from school at the end of the day, unless it's an emergency.
Second of all, to require a 13 year old to get up in the middle of the night for an assignment every night for a few weeks is also wrong.
I understand what the intention is, but a child should not be run down physically and a family should not be made to do something very inconvenient for an assignment.
One day would be one thing, but this goes on for quite a while.
DD did it last year, but they don't provide the babies. She just had to add a 5 pound bag of flour to a baby doll and carry it around with her.
I have a real problem with many of the aspects of this assignment. First of all, to require that these kids get a ride to school is wrong and probably not even legal, considering Pennsylvania requires the school districts to provide transportation. That would tick me off to no end. There is no way I can pick up my son from school at the end of the day, unless it's an emergency.
Second of all, to require a 13 year old to get up in the middle of the night for an assignment every night for a few weeks is also wrong.
I understand what the intention is, but a child should not be run down physically and a family should not be made to do something very inconvenient for an assignment.
One day would be one thing, but this goes on for quite a while.
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I also had to do the "egg" in high school. I don't think mine made it the full week! 
Good thing my parenting skills have improved! 
When the semester started, a letter ("contract") came home for BOTH the child and the parent to sign. Basically, it tells you that this baby costs $300...you break it, you buy it!! Maybe that it why they require parents to provide transportation. I am not 100% positive that these things would make it home on the bus in one piece! Not that your child would damage it, but I am sure some of the other kids might.
This baby does only come home for 1 night...I have to drive them back to school tomorrow morning. I really don't see how having this thing less than 24 hours would really show the kids how hard it is to be a teenage parent.
Maybe 2 days would be better...and the kids should need to take it ALL day. As it stands now, the babies are in "daycare" during the school day and the kids pick them up at the end of the day. A friend of my son's already had it....he said it "went off" 7 times during the night!!
As I have said, a BOMB couldn't wake Kirk up!!
I also get to do this again next year!!
Good thing my parenting skills have improved! When the semester started, a letter ("contract") came home for BOTH the child and the parent to sign. Basically, it tells you that this baby costs $300...you break it, you buy it!! Maybe that it why they require parents to provide transportation. I am not 100% positive that these things would make it home on the bus in one piece! Not that your child would damage it, but I am sure some of the other kids might.
This baby does only come home for 1 night...I have to drive them back to school tomorrow morning. I really don't see how having this thing less than 24 hours would really show the kids how hard it is to be a teenage parent.
Maybe 2 days would be better...and the kids should need to take it ALL day. As it stands now, the babies are in "daycare" during the school day and the kids pick them up at the end of the day. A friend of my son's already had it....he said it "went off" 7 times during the night!! As I have said, a BOMB couldn't wake Kirk up!! I also get to do this again next year!!
Well, I'm glad to hear this. I couldn't understand how they could do what I was thinking they were doing. When my DD had her baby doll last year, she had to carry it for around 2 weeks. But it wasn't interactive. I guess, since our kids are in the same school district, I thought the assignment would be basically the same.
She had to get a sitter if she went out....among a lot of other things. There was also an 18 page report that went along with this assignment. Her baby had a birth defect she had to research. She had to call doctors, hospitals and medical transportation services. She had to find health insurance and it's cost...also child services for the needy.
It was a pretty intense assignment. A real eye-opener.
She had to get a sitter if she went out....among a lot of other things. There was also an 18 page report that went along with this assignment. Her baby had a birth defect she had to research. She had to call doctors, hospitals and medical transportation services. She had to find health insurance and it's cost...also child services for the needy.
It was a pretty intense assignment. A real eye-opener.
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Did your daughter go in Neshaminy Middle?? Your son is in my daughter's grade (7th this year).
From what I have been told, the kids have the option to take the baby home over a weekend. It would be at a lower setting. Taking it for one day, they have it set to go off more.
From what I have been told, the kids have the option to take the baby home over a weekend. It would be at a lower setting. Taking it for one day, they have it set to go off more.
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