Author Archives: carl

Our Battle Field: Part 3.5: Bullying, a letter to my local grade school principal

Dear Principal of Nearby Elementary, I’m keeping your identity and school name private as a means to protect the students of your school. Based on what I witnessed yesterday, both with my eyes and during my brief phone conversation with your secretary, I feel that someone really should think about protecting them. Clearly, it isn’t you. What kind of society are we that our children are setting up “dog fights” using younger children after school? This isn’t to say that I wasn’t bullied, tormented and teased as kid. Because I was. Mercilessly at times. But I was never used by older kids in a sick sort of “dog fighting” scheme. Those older kids started that fight yesterday. They enjoyed it while it went on. And there isn’t a doubt in my mind that they wouldn’t have broken it up if the other good Samaritan and I hadn’t intervened. They likely wouldn’t have broken it up

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ooooh shiny toy – mine

the dreaded call.  David was with his mentor today.  stole a toy.  lied about it.  neither of which is anything new. He evidently doesn’t understand that we will check and confirm everything that he says.  And that if he comes home with a new toy, we will confirm that someone paid for it. No free rides. Grrr.. I am just so frustrated with the situation. If he has a mentor for social outings, and to give us a break, and consistently steals while with the mentor, how long before they stopped taking him?  On the other hand, they know that he takes things that aren’t his.  Why don’t they keep a better eye on what he is doing?  I even discussed them searching him if they were concerned about him taking something. When we were at wal-mart last week, he said he had to go to the bathroom.  Said he

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Locks, locks, who has the locks?

Well our new locks arrived today.  10 locks shiny in their packages.  all keyed alike. Now we have one less thing for worry.  What food will we find in his room today? If you need to order padlocks, I strongly recommend that you order from http://www.padlocks4less.com Why?  Service.  I ordered the locks on Tuesday.  (After trying to order from another company and being told repeatedly that the locks were either out of stock or on back order.) and they were delivered this morning. Why do we lock our cabinets?  Simple.  When you have an Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder in the house, you have to do something, or everything ends up hidden in their hiding spots.  This can bring an increase in vermin, bugs and unwanted aromatic displays. Tweet #fighting4answrs