Stupid Guest Tricks

It's okay for toys to be educational (although please and thank you shouldn't be the job of any toy), but first they should be fun and should ALWAYS require imagination to work.

Big Wallaby wrote:It's okay for toys to be educational (although please and thank you shouldn't be the job of any toy), but first they should be fun and should ALWAYS require imagination to work.

I have a toy...it's name is B.O.B...I close my eyes and use my imagination when I play with it....

I'm going to go to the A.D.D thread to discuss it though...

Why can't i just behave????

(Mrs. Mon Favor marcupial, I'm really happily married, I'm just twisted and not right in my head, forgive me)

ICStupidPeople wrote:I'm just twisted and not right in my head, forgive me)

Just stay out of your left head and it will all be fine.

And it's okay if your little head takes over once in a while, too. That's when the fun really begins.

ktulu wrote:I saw a stupid parent at a toy store today. Her daughter is playing with a toy, and she goes "you already gots that one" and then tells her friend "she learned please and thank you cause of that toy." I walked away telling my wife (unfortunately not in front of her) "funny, we taught Abby please and thank you."

I could be willing to give her the benefit of doubt on this one. The toy might have been the prop/ reward for correctly using Please and Thank You.

Let's give credit where credit is due. At least the child knows Please and Thank You. How many kids today know it?

Cranbiz wrote:Let's give credit where credit is due. At least the child knows Please and Thank You. How many kids today know it?

Not to mention, how many adults know it.

Randy (who was taught early and frequently to use "common" curtesy)

Randy B wrote:Not to mention, how many adults know it.

Well, I am not sure why it's called "common" courtesy anymore. When I get a bus that doesn't have a working microphone (like last night), where I am not going to have the ability to entertain on the road, I have started testing this very thing. I say hello to each person... not too loudly, but enough that they should be able to hear me when I do so. Of the people who get on the bus, and I greet each one, one in ten (or so) says "hello" back. Even fewer look me in the eye. Of those, as they disembark, about one in twenty says thank you at the end of the ride.

Now, mind you, when I do have a functional bus (my definition being different from most other drivers), the number of people who respond at the end goes up to closer to 70% or so thanking me for the ride.

The other night, I was in a bus that didn't have a working computer, but the microphone was working as it used to and people could hear what I was saying. Over the course of the four or five hours I had that bus, I estimate that I turned down over $200 in tips.

[font=Palatino Linotype] the problem with kids being out of school with an unexcused absence is that the school loses money...that's their big deal...i seriously doubt they care much more beyond that...that's the school...the teacher (if it's a good teacher) may actually care that little susie or jimmy (though these names have definitely gone by the wayside at the local schools near where i live and used to work) have missed important lessons might actually send home lessons they've missed to help catch them up...unfortunately, a lot of parents don't care to help their children with this work...the result is that the work is done almost completely wrong or not at all...so don't even get me started :soap: [/font]

I've never been on a trip where I didn't learn valuable life lessons. Much better than what I would have ever learned in that time in a classroom.

Not that I didn't learn anything in school... I mean, I am a card-carrying member of the grammar police.

Personally, I do NOT believe that parents need to ask permission to take their child out of school for anything. I also feel that it is the responsibility of the teacher to give any assignments ahead of time to the child/parents, so that the child can complete the work and turn all of it in on the day the child returns to school.

Having said that, I think that most schools are between a rock and a hard place. As others have mentioned, many parents feel that school is supposed to teach their prince and princesses everything and that they do not have to actually be parents - except for carting them to soccer or T-ball, etc (the SG parents).

Then there are the responsible parents. The ones who care about their child. The ones who have already started "teaching" their child Please, Thank You, Excuse me, etc. The ones that have taught their child the ABCs, numbers, etc. The ones that "continue teaching" their children long after school lets out for the day (I don't mean a rigid regiment).

It appears to depend on how the school approaches the problem. Or, how many parents (and which ones) turn out to the school board meeting when the decision is addressed about how to handle parents taking their kids out of school for a week.

Slightly OT Here in New Jersey, the teachers have a convention for two days in November. That week just so happens to coincide with Veteran's Day, in which the school may or may not have off. IMO, the convention needs to be moved to a different week, or the schools need to force the teachers to go to the convention for at least one day. That would reduce the amount of families and teachers going to WDW for a week. FYI: that week is widely known throughout WDW as "Jersey week."