Argh my daughter's classmate has called 3 times tonight about homework.

[AlCzervik]

omg take notes! Since school started on aug 28th this girl has called almost every school night asking about assignments and then she calls back again and again because she didn't write down what my daughter told her.

Should i call her mother or just forget about it?

[Nevernose]

1. Sounds like she needs a friend more than a notetaker n/t

n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. she has friends at school but she has 3 classes with my daughter.

last night she called at 10:00pm so i told her "No more calling after 8:30".

[Nevernose]

5. "Friends at school" is not the same thing as having friends

My kid's in that boat at the moment with the new school. It sucks. Also, I'm a high school teacher, and I see a lot of these kids every day of every year.

If your kid doesn't get it, it's up to you to explain it to her. And, while the world at large fully expects you teach your kid tolerance and compassion and all of that, you are perfectly within your rights to explain that the cut-off hour isn't 9:30. Ever. This ain't the Larry David show; the cut-off hour is nine.

If it were me, my gut reaction would be sympathy with a healthy dose of perturbed.

[AlCzervik]

8. my daughter really doesn't mind but i'm thinking is it really helping her classmate?

i know short term it is but in the long run she needs to make sure she gets her assignments written down. I haven't blasted the girl on the phone but i did tell her what the cut off time is.

[WildEyedLiberal]

2. You should give her the cookie monster treatment

OK I'll stop

[AlCzervik]

4. Rofl!!!!

omg that would be so wrong but so hilarious.

[WildEyedLiberal]

6. OK because I really *am* that gratuitous....

Just email her this pic the next time she asks your daughter for notes :rofl:

[AlCzervik]

7. oh yeah and i'll keep the phone in my hand in anticipation of the phone call

from her mom. It would so be worth it.

[Orrex]

16. All else being equal, that's the funniest picture I've seen in my entire life

It just edges out the Bush/Squirrel pic.

Damn! :rofl:

[WildEyedLiberal]

17. Isn't it???

Another DUer posted it a couple of weeks ago in a GD thread and I about peed myself. After regaining my breath I saved it to my photobucket account :bounce:

[Orrex]

18. The weird thing is...

It's the look on Bert's face that clinches it!

I'm sitting at the pc while House of Kewpie and our sons are asleep upstairs, and I'm trying not to wake them with my laughter!

I can't stand it!

[WildEyedLiberal]

19. Yeah Bert's expression combined with Cookie Monster's gaping maw

It literally reduces me to giggles every time I see it.

[AlCzervik]

20. good luck not waking the whole house up. It's just beyond funny, the shock

of hearing Cookie monster say STFU, i think Burt's reaction would be my reation, it's just gd priceless.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Sounds like your daughter has an exciting life learning opportunity!

Please do not interfere.

[AlCzervik]

10. and what learning opportunity would that be?

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. To let her decide if or when the situation is intolerable,

and to deal with it herself.

It will be a WONDERFUL lesson in self-assertiveness, and finding her own boundary lines.

[AlCzervik]

13. for F*cks sake!

i didn't think about that and you know what--you're right. Now i'm ashamed of myself i didn't even consider her point of view, she's 13 and you know what, i really need to let he find her own place. Rabrrrrrr you've helped me more than you know and i'm not kidding.
:loveya:

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. I'm glad I was of help!

I've spent most of my life helping teenagers.

And in the 20 years I've been doing it, I've been increasingly pissed off by the helicopter parents who don't let their children grow up, and always try to offer to parents a parenting style of "benign neglect" - don't interfere with anything (unless they're self-destructive), but when asked for help, be helpful, but never DO for the child what they should do themselves.

[Orrex]

21. Holy moley--where were you 20+ years ago, when I needed you?

I endured interminable nightly calls from my erstwhile pal Howie, each of which lasted two hours or more!

I was clear on the "my own boundary lines" part, but I could really have used a boost in the "self-assertiveness" department!

[tigereye]

12. I bought my son a planner this year

he writes it all down. Life is good.

[AlCzervik]

14. my daughter has a planner, so does her classmate and i guess she doesn't use it.

That thing has saved her many headaches.