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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 21:50:46 EST 
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Last year, for the kids' birthdays, I sent a couple of strings of color changing LED lights. Recently, #sonTwo finally got time to set them up. #GS3 said "Thank you Grandpa for the lights" and #GS4 squealed with joy in the background. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 20:46:40 EST
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@fu Unfortunately, most families cannot home school because the adult(s) are too busy working and / or not educationally able. And that's even if they can meet their state's requirements for home schooling.
So if they cannot pay for private school, they usually have to rely upon public schools.
In my case, #sonOne got into the public continuation high school and only returned to the regular public high school for the last semester, so he could graduate. #sonTwo and #Daddy_A got into publicly-funded charter schools (and 2nd son also spent one school year doing a home school program through the continuation school when a lung infection prevented attendance). All three had suffered violence at the public schools (high school and middle schools) before getting into alternative programs, so I am definitely in favor of making alternatives available. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 20:27:16 EST
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#GS3: Mommy, Daddy said βDamn itβ.
Backstory: #GS4 (not quite 2 years old) is learning to use the potty. Somehow, he missed and pooped on the floor, then picked it up and put it in the toilet. #sonTwo was cleaning the child and uttered the forbidden words.
When I heard about it, I seriously laughed out loud, because he told on me when I uttered the same words after bending a fingernail backwards while trying to squeeze his foot (plus fluffy wool socks) into his shoes. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 16:14:49 EST
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https://nu.federati.net/url/289647 [www kacu org]
#Barney is coming back. I gave #sonTwo advanced notice, in case he wants to try to block it out of their home. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 08:43:17 EST
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#sonTwo was pretty downtrodden last night. He's working one full-time and two part-time jobs; working seven days per week, and they still needed to apply for SNAP in order to feed the kids.
I just see it as an example of where pay scales have not kept up with prices. Where it was once possible and common to support a family on one worker's income, that is no longer the case. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 08:59:23 EST
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I think one thing that affected #sonTwo's choice of a campus was that we went to a "college fair" when he was in 8th or 9th grade and most of the schools weren't very interested in students who would not apply right away. The exception was my former CSU campus ... and he wanted to get out of my footprints.
(Most of his CC classes had instructors I knew.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 13:45:37 EST
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Due to changes in #sonTwo's work schedule, we're going to try to have our #videochats on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a while. A couple of co-workers recently became ex-co-workers, so the remaining crew has additional hours. (And since he's working on full-time and two part-time jobs, the additional funds are welcomed.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 19:51:43 EST
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For the record, I don't believe the U.S. public school system is a drain on society. I believe it significantly underperforms its potential, but I also believe that in a world of single parenthood and two-job families, substantially all alternatives rely on its existence. I also believe that our public schools are too tightly managed from the national and state capitals, rather than locally.
And what does some pointy-headed educrat in Washington DC know about the needs of students in a much less urban part of SoCal? Nothing! But because of top-down rules, the local school districts cannot respond to local needs even if they wanted to (hint: they don't want to respond to local needs; they just want to pass the next district and campus administration staff pay raises).
#sonOne graduated from a public high school that was also a continuation school. He had gone there for the continuation program after repeated fights and a couple of medical issues in the main public high school, but once he caught up, he transferred to the regular high school program. (I knew the school wasn't responsive to medical issues, because I had a friend [now deceased] who had attended there while dealing with a life-threatening condition which eventually took his life.)
#sonTwo graduated from a charter school that is funded with public dollars. He also attended a medical home school program through the same continuation school that his older brother attended, but as soon as he recovered, he wanted out because that school had too much homework. Two of his elementary school friends moved out of state partly because of the poor quality of the public middle school he attended.
I remember one time, while he was on home schooling, we went to a local McDonald's for the day. We had breakfast and lunch there, while he did his schoolwork. There was a lady doing the same thing with her little boy. The toilets weren't all that clean, so when I needed to go, I left my kid there with the lady (and a long-time employee whom I knew) watching him, while I went to a nearby store. Later on, the lady needed to go, and I watched her kid while she went to the store. (That McD's now has a sign saying that their dining room is for up to 30 minutes use only.)
#Daddy_A graduated from a different charter school that is partially funded with public dollars. He went there after his public middle school experienced several race-related fights that spread from a nearby public high school.
Despite the public schools failing all three of them, the alternatives they used existed because we have public funding for schools. In each case, for different reasons, completely home schooling the child was not a realistic alternative, nor was getting into one of the area's paid and privately funded church schools. Even so, I did know a woman who was able to get grants and part-time on-campus work to send her three sons to a church school instead of the public middle school after her oldest got mononucleosis and the school demanded that he return to campus despite not having recovered. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 12:01:17 EST
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@clacke I remember DDR. Both #sonOne and #sonTwo liked to shame me in that game. Neither one was very good, but I was even worse. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 15:08:16 EST
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#sonTwo didn't say where it was, but he got to drive through snowfall while returning home yesterday. And this time, he didn't mention getting stuck in Atlanta traffic, so I assume he went another way. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 16:46:23 EST
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#sonTwo (2nd son) got to experience #Atlanta morning rush hour traffic today. He was quite shaken. He says it added hours to his trip.
He says he'd rather walk in Death Valley.
Later on, a #GA sheriff's deputy pulled him over, talked with him, and suggested rest and a Red Bull before continuing his trip. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 23:57:34 EST
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Someone that I and #sonTwo knew twenty to twenty-five years ago recently passed. My son kept in contact at least a decade longer.
RIP "G" -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:43:47 EST
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I've been talking with #sonTwo and #Daddy_A about getting a 1 year subscription to https://www.crunchlabs.com/ for #GS3 and #A1. For the soon-to-be 4 year old, I think we should get the kits and set them aside along with instructions and downloaded videos, so he will have them in 2027 even if the program is no longer in operation. For the soon-to-be 10 year old, I wish I had known about this when he was 8. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 21:09:56 EST
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#sonTwo told me that the other grandparents aren't reading or playing with the kids. They sit them in front of the #TV and let it hypnotize kids so they won't have to deal with them.
Well, if that's what you're doing, put the grandkids and their mother on a plane and send them home. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 17:27:31 EST
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#sonTwo took his wife and kids to her parents' house because one of her family is ill and expected to pass soon. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 15:46:41 EST
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The family photos we took when I was at #sonTwo's house have come back. This photographer did a much better job of getting the kids' attention than their previous photographer did. There are pictures where both #GS3 and #GS4 are smiling and looking toward the camera at the same time. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 00:24:33 EST
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#sonTwo informs me that they celebrated their holidays early, as his wife and kids will be going to her parents' home for the holidays. He's got to work, so he'll be home. #GS3 got his favorite "Gup" https://nu.federati.net/url/288815 and keeps it with him all the time. (He has to, or #GS4 will try to take it.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 23:56:49 EST
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Speaking of losing your faculties as you get older, I used to be able to drop into the original time I heard a song and re-experience it again ... and same with conversations. It wasn't FOREVER, but up to a few years.
I even used that ability when #sonTwo and #Daddy_A were teens. They'd be talking and I wasn't listening at all. Then one of them would say a word that piqued my interest, so I'd re-hear part of their conversation ... this time paying attention.
But this ability is gone now. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 21:31:23 EST
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Had a #videochat with #GS3 and #GS4. During the chat, the 3.5 year old carried the phone around the house and found a missing steak knife on the floor underneath something. I sent #sonTwo a text message telling him to ask his son where the knife is.
The 1.5 year old asked me to pick him up. His word for that is "down". -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 19:53:22 EST
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I got a little bit of good news today. #Daddy_A and his wife have been struggling to pay their bills as theyβve faced repeated hospitalizations. He had informed me that they were probably going to have to move (the house they rent came with a really nice deal) into a much smaller place.
Today he said they are staying put. At least one more month.
(One thing he did not express is whether any jobs were lost. But I already knew from #sonTwo that my half-son had already lost his job.)
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