tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post7861583788938438319..comments2024-02-22T15:59:54.435-08:00Comments on Herding Grasshoppers: SocializationHerding Grasshoppershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15668974245505544238noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-66876846032917220252010-09-23T08:59:58.082-07:002010-09-23T08:59:58.082-07:00Oh, if I could only tattoo this quote to my forehe...Oh, if I could only tattoo this quote to my forehead.heather westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11208177272381527614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-69989131909635057912010-09-22T22:19:14.240-07:002010-09-22T22:19:14.240-07:00Hey Rachael,
Thank the Lord that she's brainy...Hey Rachael,<br /><br />Thank the Lord that she's brainy and nerdy, yah?<br /><br />Wyatt always had friends at school, but he wasn't really caught up in the social whirl. (Not interested? Not savvy enough? Don't know...)<br /><br />But I watched their classmates get sucked into it all. The clothes, the music, the video games, the attitudes. Eight year-olds, sporting Green Day shirts and playing Halo. Six year-old girls in heels and mini-skirts. (Aren't you glad your kids wear uniforms?!)<br /><br />And - you know - we don't exactly keep the boys in a bubble. ;DHerding Grasshoppershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15668974245505544238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-83048817654130133402010-09-22T21:52:43.695-07:002010-09-22T21:52:43.695-07:00I've had an epiphany with my oldest now that w...I've had an epiphany with my oldest now that we're a month into our new adventure of outsourcing our childrens' education to their moralistic therapeutic deist overlords (AKA large-ish Christian school).<br /><br />She really does need help with socialization. She's so brainy and so nerdy that she's far more content to literally go off by herself and climb a tree than to humble her genius self to ask to play in a game, or , worse, ask how a game is played. If she's interested, she'll just walk up to them and stare at what they're doing, without asking if that's okay. Then there's the challenges of a teacher who seems to not be the fairest disicplinarian....<br /><br />Anyway, I totally get and one hundred percent agree that <i>most</i> of the time, this is an argument for communal worship at the altar of Lady Gaga. <br /><br />But it's not all the time. And I'll note that the same nerdiness that makes her in need of some help with social niceties also makes her, at this stage, reflexively disinterested in pop anything.<br /><br />Just my $0.25. Ask me again in six months if she gets invited to go to a Justin Beiber concert. And actually wants to go. :)Rachael Starkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10781158372237369417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-77644706587149810432010-09-22T16:10:55.953-07:002010-09-22T16:10:55.953-07:00YES, YES, YES! Love this, should read the book ag...YES, YES, YES! Love this, should read the book again . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-8771732802111454592010-09-22T11:31:13.621-07:002010-09-22T11:31:13.621-07:00I love it too, that my boys are not completely cap...I love it too, that my boys are not completely captive to pop culture.Herding Grasshoppershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15668974245505544238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-52860635255575463232010-09-22T06:39:44.005-07:002010-09-22T06:39:44.005-07:00Yes!!!Yes!!!The Hibbard Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05066058156943532164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-25904462151569646532010-09-21T23:48:26.754-07:002010-09-21T23:48:26.754-07:00I really like this! I have raised my kids to be f...I really like this! I have raised my kids to be free too - free to be themselves, in Christ.Felicityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05729341166080286031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-53011053069818688292010-09-21T22:11:44.023-07:002010-09-21T22:11:44.023-07:00Just came from FB... so
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and g...Just came from FB... so <br /><br />{{{LIKE}}}<br /><br />=)<br /><br />and g'night!<br /><br />(Got an email, got an email, got an e-mail to-night! da da dut duh, da da dut duh..)melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04021320182522447827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7307114766025313443.post-22758418659874905172010-09-21T22:04:55.776-07:002010-09-21T22:04:55.776-07:00I love this so much. I need to finish that book.I love this so much. I need to finish that book.Cutzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815741632369910907noreply@blogger.com