Really sad after buying Girl Scout cookies.

[laundry_queen]

163. Yeah, I'll never understand that

they aren't doing their children any favors. They set them up for long term issues when they enter the workforce and have no idea how to do anything and don't want to work hard. I have 4 kids and my oldest tries to pull the "oh, but it's SO hard and SO much work" but I just tell her then she has to work harder to get it done. This is a kid who wasn't very coordinated and had troubles riding her bike without training wheels...and so practiced on the grass in the back yard for hours every single day until she was confident enough to go on the road. It took about a month of riding her bike every day. I really admired her work ethic at the time...now I wonder where it went!

I had a teacher in 4th grade that had taught mostly in Africa and she had never taught in North America before. She was giving us 4-5 hours of homework a night and a lot of kids were falling asleep in class because they were up late trying to get stuff done. I didn't have problems because I was a whiz at homework so it only took *ME* 1-2 hours a night, but some of the slower kids had big problems. The parents held a meeting (my parents brought me, I don't know why, I was the only kid there, I think they thought it was 'meet the teacher night') and the other parents were so nasty to her they made her cry. She had no idea - she said kids in Africa usually asked her for more homework! Yeah, um, not here that's for sure. She ended up being one of my favorite teachers, because she tried really hard to make sure to include us in designing our own activities and really got us going creatively (we wrote our own Christmas concert song with her). And she continued to give homework...just not as much.