My little cheerleaders in action

[GreenPartyVoter]

3 of them are going to cheer camp with me next week. Can't wait! :D

Editing to add that I need more kids on the team. So any DUers looking to move to Maine, if ya have kids please choose my hometown! :P

[patrice]

1. Don't you just love being around children and young adults?

I envy you.

I taught high school for 10 years, debaters, journalists, and psychology.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. They are fun. And my kid are all quite bright and most of them spent

a lot of time this past fall making Kerry signs to hang in the school halls. Although my most ardent liberal feminist graduated on to 9th grade this year. :(

But the little girl you see flying through the air is headed to NASA space camp in august, and I should have her for 2 more years unless her dad is stationed elsewhere. :)

[patrice]

3. I always tried to ask them to consider the commitments of Leadership.

It's a responsibility they need to evaluate for themselves.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yes it is. And despite the bad rep cheerleaders tend to have as airheads

mine are anything but, and they all possess leadership qualities. (Something that cheering helps develop, really. They have to think about what they say and do because they are considered role models. They also have to try to get other people rallied in order to work together.)

[patrice]

6. My daughter was a cheerleader and drill team and musicals - Classic type A

She's a partner in her own business now.

I taught 4 years of Advance Placement Psych., met some amazing kids. Miss it a little now, although I too busy to do anything about it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yep, I have a few type As. Oddly enough, I am not really a type A myself

I suppose I might have been but a few things that happened in my life kinda toned that down.

So what are you so busy with these days that you can't get in some kid mentoring? (Sounds like you may go back to it eventually, it was such a positive experience for you.)

[johnnie]

5. That's really cool

I have a friend that lives far away from me, her daughter is a cheerleader and she is always excited about her daughter too..lol.
She actually just called me about 10 minutes ago to let me hear the Army band playing at her son's graduation from basic training.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Thanks. :^) I hope your friend's son won't be anywhere near

the middle east. :(

[johnnie]

8. Unfortunately

I think he is going there :(

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Oh. man. .. and would I be off the mark if I guessed that your friend is

not anti-war since she's playing the graduation music to you and all? Or is she antiwar and just resigned to what her grown kids decide to do with their lives?

[johnnie]

11. She is in Texas and she and her family love georgie

We have had many knock down drag outs on the phone and she knows I am a lib. She isn't AS supportive of the war as she was a few years back. I was sick to hear that he was joining, but I said nothing. I respect him and what he is doing and she knows that. That's why she called me, because even though she knows I think george is a complete asshole, I am supportive of our men and women in uniform and very proud of her son.
Now getting her and her family to respect my views is a whole other story..lol. But what else would you expect from republicans?

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I was afraid of that. I will be p[raying your friend is never a gold star

mom. *hugs*

And as for getting them to respect ya, well.. I have lots of repubs on the in-law side of the family. I know where you are at! :P