Sounds like my boy .....and he just turned 5.

We really really reeaally came "that" close to giving him "Trouble" as a middle name. We should've -it couldn't possibly have made him any worse! :eek: The other two -positive angels by comparison- did not prepare us for this one. Another mom said to me at one point "God doesn't send us anything we can't handle" to which my reply was "God clearly knows I'm an atheist then". She hasn't spoken to me since. Mind you, Thor hasn't pulled her daughter's trousers down recently either (to my knowledge) :eyebrow:

mmm..... actually, we called one of our cats 'Mischief' 'cos her mother was 'Trouble' (partner to 'Strife', of course....)

I hope your son grows up to hurl Thunderbolts & Lightning.

He left them behind when he was 3 -now he's up to tornados, hurricanes, siblings, lego and tantrums. Simultaneously, of course.

Monster, your kids better be strong and self-sufficient, because there will be a lot of playground asskicking going on there.

Or fear and cowering....and not by Monster's sprogs. :worried:

I have an old VW Passat Estate - first registered in 1989 - it's now up to 195,000 miles and keeps passing its annual health-check. Probably worth nothing as a resale item, but it performs so many tasks it's priceless to us - from lugging wood, bags of cement, the dog, flatpack furniture - I even managed to get my ride-on mower into the back of it when it broke down so I could take it to the local repairer. The kids (men) use it when they need to move something awkward or when their cars break down and it has been named affectionately by them 'The Tank!'

We live in hippy Ann Arbor and they go to an "alternative" school -my kids have the normal names around here! :lol:

...and happy clappy is compulsory in the playground -no cowering, just daisy chains and joyous friendships :eyebrow:

Clonlara?

Here's The Black Jeep after repair.

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL162.../220249038.jpg

No, it's actually a public school with an "alternative" program. I use the "" because so many people assume that alternative means for bad kids.

The school is run by the staff, parents and students together. Learning is co-operative rather than competitive and student-driven. Classes are mixed age and teachers and all members of the community are known by their first-name, learning is experience and interest driven, with many field-trips, special focus studies etc....

(Hard to put in a nutshell, Here's the Website)

how's that for a topic drift?

(drifting futher, I remembered that someone on this board sent their children to Upattinas, and a quick search tells me that's you, I think. The philosophy is similar, although -being within the public school system- we are subject to an element of testing and specified curriculum (which we ignore to the best of our ability ;)) basically, they send us tests, we grit our teeth and do them, we exceded expectations then continue in our own merry way)

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* 1971: Ann Arbor had six informal classroom which were precursors to an open school program.

Might want to make that classrooms on the site history page, seeing that its a school and all. I found at least two more, but. . . I hate being in publishing - I end up proofreading everything I see. Boxes, signs , menu's. . .

BTW, My brothers kids go to an Alternative school and they do really well there. They are all very, very smart and well above their age group in all classes.

Back to this thread, I have one car and I call it effin-pizza-chit U-kiddin-me. I know that effin-pizza-chit is a long first name so I call her POS for short.

Everything, huh? ;)

:lol: It was smart of you to keep you post short and sweet. Fewer chances for a mistake that way. But the question is, did you proofread your short post more than once before you hit "submit reply?" ;)

You also missed the extra space after the comma. . . I never said I was perfect. I make plenty of mistakes, but I would think a school would want their website to have proper grammer on it. donja tink? They need to be schmart to teech da kidz the rite way to spel 'n stuff.