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4000 word sex scene = pure smut

it is pure smut.

snickers --- a national park on the moon... I wanna be THAT ranger!

You're welcome. Thank you for reading.

just my 2 cent but a glacier is a cliff of ice...

well shit.... I need to stop right now I'm ruining bump... we studied grammar all year (a month on each part of speech), geography (one continent a month and a month for oceans) this year, a whole year on astronomy, some other science and history unit studies that took 4-6 weeks... we spend 20 - 45 minutes on a single subject a day... lawdy lawdy... I'm screwing him up horribly.

ok that was interesting... his first response was to tell me you need to put in "cooking food more than one way" which is damn close... but there is a vast difference between a five year old who has been taught to use search engines and look things up on his own rather than me give him all the information than a teenager (who by the way CAN drive a car in this country at 15 in some states and take drivers education in all of them) who has been given free reign and no skills on the technology they have at their fingertips. Bump uses an online dictionary and thesaurus daily for his lessons. BUT he can also use a paper one that is age appropriate. He can find a book in the library card catalogue which is computerized. He loves to browse it. I'm not saying that a tablet should replace a teacher. I'm saying that a tablet in the hands of a child with a teacher who knows how and when to use them in the classroom and who is willing to allow the children to explore and expand their educational boundaries, can allow wonderful things to happen. Don't let the concept of "this is how I learned so it's how my child should learn" stifle the forward expansion of how education can and does take place in a world of changing technology. This is no longer a world where children travel no further than they can walk in a week. Now they can travel the globe -- or the universe -- in their living rooms and we as educators are here to make ways for it to happen, to allow it to happen, and to encourage it to happen. Technology is moving forward. Children are the first to adapt. Teachers are slower. School systems even slower. Change must and will happen.. This is one of the fundamental reasons I homeschool. Bump has been on a computer since he was two. Not just pushing buttons, but actively engaged. By the time he was three, he could properly open the laptop, turn it on, 'log on', open his folder, choose his activity, and when he was finished, properly log out of the activity, log out of the computer, turn it off, and put it away. This is at three. He was using a touch pad on the laptop. Now he uses a mouse, touchpad, or touch screen, all with the same ease. Technology is what it is, and that is nothing more than what you make of it. If you, as a parent or a teacher, don't embrace it or allow access to it, or teach how to use it then the children at whatever age will remain ignorant. As someone else said... Teacher --- teach.

want me to ask the five year old?

Sasha I asked my 18 year old to do this... his first guess was to put "food service recipe development" into google.... not whatever you said.

Actually Sasha.... Put this technology in the hands of a five and six year old and give them instruction... and you teach them to be self-learners. It is a well-known fact among homeschoolers that if you give a child a love for learning and some basic skills such as reading and basic math -- they can do just about anything they want. There are test scores that back this up. I have taught pk - 3rd (4 to 8 year olds) and currently home school a 5 year old who uses technology daily, prefers to read ebooks, and keeps a blog.

yay! I'm glad!

Ok I couldn't resist this one.... Today was Ari's birthday party (she turned 6). She is in Bump's dance class along with a boy named D (who is 6 and a half). Well D keeps saying that he is Ari's boyfriend and Ari don't correct him, however, she makes room for Bump. Like today, D picked a spot that had two seats left for him and Ari to sit to have their hot dogs and mac-n-cheese, but Ari made her daddy move another chair over so Bump could sit with them too. Well, Ari has a big brother who is about DC's age. The kids were all sitting in the living room on the floor and Ari was opening presents. She was taking her time and her brother threatened to hit her if she didn't hurry up. D turned and looked at him, but Bump got up and punched him in the thigh and told him never to threaten Ari again or he would have to deal with him -- and you don't hit girls. Then he stood there and stared him down like he would DC. I did my best not to laugh. Everyone else was shocked, including Ari's brother who just nodded, after which his girlfriend chided him for picking on the little kids. When Ari was done and the kids had gone outside, Ari's grandma came over to me and said, "Well we know who thinks he is Ari's boyfriend, but now we know who thinks he is her protector." I nodded. She patted my knee and said. "I think I would prefer the protector, and so will she, eventually." I said, "They're six." Then she laughed. "For now," she said. Then got up and walked out of the room. WTF? Bump likes Ari, but he also likes D..... how do I explain THAT one to her grandma?

they shoot projectiles don't they? I had DC in the hospital having surgery for a bb when he was 14.. don't say "air powered guns" aren't real guns.

well it's technically considered one... he's now able to earn money for his family and THAT is a what they need. Some things just have to be sacrificed.... in this case the carefree moments of youth. Equal trade? maybe not... willing trade? you bet.

it's a very different society, and that is one of the ways I wanted to show how different.

heh... just figuring that out are you?

nope

It was a good number. I didn't want them too old you know. Thanks for reading!

LOL so true. Thanks for reading!

OMG I can't believe I missed this! You dirty old man! Wanna go some place and get freaky? Written your bucket list yet? You should they are pretty fun... especially when you get to cross things off. Oh yeah... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

sometimes you have to actually go in cause they won't show up on the bottom of the screen

I've been hiding under a rock for a while....

yeah but you can go to bestbuy.com and buy it too... if they have the best price. personally I think this sucks. as it stands right now, if I want to buy at walmart for example... I can go to walmart.com and make my purchases have them delivered to the store for free, go pick them up... no sales tax, no delivery charge... and bring them home I'm still buying at walmart... do they really want to mess that up? Online sales will drop drastically I think and new loopholes will form.

sighs... I'm going to be washing my hair that day... all day...

ha ha she got you! I'm safe!