Posted on 09/11/2006 10:39:33 AM PDT by FreeManDC
You misunderstood. Posting "Men get this straight!" with the finger-wagging exclamation mark triggers our anti-lecture and anti-scold radars. Now you know.
We looked into homeschooling, but one of my daughters is special needs. She needs some special reading tutoring, and the private school offers it every day. It's better for my daughter to have consistency. Plus, she has speech problems and some social problems, and being around nice kids is a great thing for her.
For my other daughter, she would be dragged around to tutoring and speech therapy for her sister. She'd be in the car more than anything else, and that's not a great school environment.
We've thought about homeschooling, but it just doesn't seem feasible for us right now.
You would have someone who doesn't know braille teach a blind child braille?
You would have someone who doesn't know sign language teach your child sign language?
Some parents do pull some kids with special needs out to homeschool because that is what is best for that child.
However, to make a blanket statement that there is nothing better than homeschooling a special needs child (or any other child) is just a stupid statement.
I have someone someone who has a master's degree in special education with lots of training in mulit-sensory reading programs working with my child.
If I could have taught my child to read, she would be reading right now. Her identical twin sister learned to read when she was 4. My special needs child is 9, and is still struggling with reading.
I have worked with a neuropsychologist, a learning specialist, a speech therapist, an occupational therapist to figure out the best placement for my daughter.
You don't know what you are talking about.
Yes, I do have a tendency to be a bit passionate and finger waving at times in my discourse (male and female a like). Needless to say, I've had to pick a strong man that won't let me push him around :-). I grew up with loads of older teasing brothers and a tough passionate father. I learned early on to be a warrior and to correct harshly at times.
But you are right. No one likes to be exclamation pointed :-), especially the guys. Sometimes passion takes over. Ah, thank God for God.
But I have found men like it clear and straight. Sometimes it makes them angry, but they like the directness, compared with some of these mamby bamy, wormy, unclear communication styles we often see with women when addressing men. Be clear and direct is my motto. It is best to be kind as well.
WARNING: THIS IS AN EXCLAMATION POINT FREE POST.
How many kids with severe brain damage do you know?????
Geez, the neuropsychologist that has tested my daughter has a PhD, and has worked with kids for over 20 years.
How do you know that I am not directly involved?
My daughter should be severely handicapped in a wheelchair, but she is not because of direct intervention of specialist and myself. I work hours with her to keep her where she should be. The fact that she can walk and run is a miracle. Then she can read (and is only slightly below grade level), and she is actually above grade level in math is an even greater miracle.
You are sounding like a total fool.
I think the # 1 job of a wife is to make her husband feel good about himself. Make him feel successful, important, and wanted. It doesn’t matter whether he’s a potato farmer or a CEO, he will always need his ego boosted.
1. The correct way to do just that, and
2. What women can get out of it for themselves.
"How" and "why," if you will.
You're right about that. I ask myself everytime while I'm waiting outside a dressing room waiting for my wife..."Now how did she talk me into this?" :)
I married one career woman, and might just marry another. I see no problems with this. If they walk in G-d's path, a career is just fine.
Forty creeps up on us before we know it ... keep your eye on the ball and keep your sense of humour while making your fortune ... there will always be women available for such a man!
SoS
Meh, that whole "plan" of mine was totally speculative anyway. I don't think I'll want to be thirty and living by decisions I made when I was eighteen.
The one thing you have not taken into account is ... falling in love ... it does happen and usually when one least expects it.Keep your powder dry and your options open. LOL
Grr. Accursed emotions and their accursed unpredictability.
L O L !
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