Word For The Day, Monday, August 11, 2003

The Verbivores | 8/11/03 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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surmise \sur*myze\, verb, transitive/intransitive; noun
surmising, surmised, surmises

1. To infer (something) without sufficiently conclusive evidence
2. To make a guess or conjecture
3. Reflection; thought. [Obs.]
4. An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture.

It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before she but surmised, was true. --Dryden.

Etymology: [Middle English surmisen, to accuse, from Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre : sur-, sur- + mettre, to put (from Latin mittere).]

[NeoCaveman]

I learned from the teachings of Smith and von Mises.

Witty. And nice choice of economists.

[white rose]

A pleasant Monday morning to you all.

I am drawing your attention to this site merely to demonstrate that--despite what some of you appear to have surmised--I am not--repeat, not--the strangest person you can find on the Internet.

[Gabz]

Yeah but you guys are all asleep when bedtime rolls around.

That may not be true for me tonight, we'll see.

I've been up since about 4 and am getting ready to go take a nap........which means I should be able to stay awake past 10pm eastern.

[camle]

if you treat a cat with any amount of decency, they won't run away.

[camle]

anybody who would pick Kemp can't be all bad.

[Gabz]

That exhibitionist teen will never be my daughter.

I allowed her to pick out a new bathing suit last week - she chose a one piece with no cutouts or other stuff. Not bad for a 5 year old, considering I had picked out a 2 piece and she didn't like it.

[honeygrl]

BTW I did look for that Ferber book at B&N but I could only find one book by him and it didn't seem to be the right one. The one i found though appears to have the sam basic idea that I've seen online regarding what ferber's method is. It says to do a bedtime routine that you can stick with everynight then check ont hem after 5 minutes the first check, then after 5 minutes the second check, then 10 minutes each additional check the first night. It says the 1st night usually takes about 45 minutes, the second night about an hour, then the 3rd night about 20-30minutes and the time goes lower after that... does that sound about right to you? It also says not to pick them up at all but when they wake during the night to do the same things you normally do for night wakings, like nursing or rocking them. The lady says that the bedtime thing will teach them to put themselves to sleep on their own and once they learn that the night wakings will begin to disappear.

[honeygrl]

"send him to his MOTHERS! don't let him make you cave! "

No chance of that.. she's 4 hours away and I have to drag him there just to visit even if I go along with him. He won't go by himself at all.

[Texan5]

Thank heaven for church schools and their uniform requirements. I've even heard some people say it "stifles individual expression". Yeah, right. They are in school to LEARN, not dress for individual expression. My husband, my daughter, his daughter and myself wore uniforms to Catholic schools, and we don't let anyone stifle our individuality, ever. The public schools out here are still the old fashioned kind or "country" schools, but even so, a new, private Christian school opened last year (yes, uniforms required), to handle the overflow from the Catholic school, which is full. They have already built a second building to handle the landslide of kids who are enrolled for the new year, and have been unable to take any more students since last June.

There are many, many homeschooling parents who are teachers who operate "cottage schools" in their homes for parents who can't homeschool but don't want their kids in public school. One of my neighbors sends both her teens to a cottage school. She says it is not as expensive as church school, and they are taught Christian values as well.

[honeygrl]

Well, if you guys will stay up tonight, then maybe I will try it tonight. The hubby wants to stay up anyway to watch the Comedy Central roast on Dennis Leary anyway and that is on until 11pm or so. BTW that was SO hilarious. they even have his priest on there roasting him and even his priest was funny. The priest told the joke: "A priest, a rapist, and a pedophile walk into a bar.. and that was just the first guy."

[Texan5]

I remember kneeling on the gym floor and having the skirt of my uniform measured from the floor with a ruler. They were still doing it when my daughter was in school.

[xsmommy]

i have never heard of a cottage school, but it is a fantastic idea, if the teacher is truly credentialed. i don't have the patience to teach my kids, but i think homeschooling is definitely a great thing, if you DO have the patience. i would do a cottage school, i think.

[Gabz]

turns out it is a skort.

That about describes my entire dress/business wardrobe, especially for this time of the year.

But all kidding aside - it sounds like you've been raising a GREAT kid.

[Texan5]

I remember kneeling on the gym floor and having the skirt of my uniform measured from the floor with a ruler. They were still doing it when my daughter was in school.

[honeygrl]

Well, if you guys will stay up tonight, then maybe I will try it tonight. The hubby wants to stay up anyway to watch the Comedy Central roast on Dennis Leary anyway and that is on until 11pm or so. BTW that was SO hilarious. they even have his priest on there roasting him and even his priest was funny. The priest told the joke: "A priest, a rapist, and a pedophile walk into a bar.. and that was just the first guy."

[Conspiracy Guy]

True, hopefully a coyote will get them.

[xsmommy]

SG, can you speak to the specifics of the ferber method? i don't recall it, since we are talking almost 12 years ago now. and i was pretty much hard core, cold turkey with the other two. not going in and patting them etc. i nursed them to sleep and then they were on their own til the AM, like i said, unless they had a cold, fever, other type of illness going on.

[Laura Earl]

Flurry!!!

[xsmommy]

thanks, i think so teen. xsteen has her head screwed on straight. i still have plenty of work to do with the other two!

[1smallVoice]

I surmise that the Clintons have been out of the spotlight long enough and will show up somewhere in California to try to redirect some of the media hysteria to them.