It sounds to me like she needs to talk with the principal or school board.

• DD is a 1st grade teacher, and is ready to throw in the towel - venting for my daughter
  • I am not a yuppy - Volunteer.
  • With 10 years under her belt and the distinction of one of the top teachers..you'd think she'd - interesting
  • Yuppie parents today raising a bunch of big babies - lm
  • This is not allowed at our school. - mtathome
    • Not allowed at our schools either. sm - Mainer
      • I agree totally. - mtathome
  • It sounds to me like she needs to talk with the principal or school board. - sm
    • Mothers volunteer as "aides" at their children's schools - its the new yuppie thing
      • Mother volunteers is NOTHING new at all.... - SM
        • I remember all that, too. The parents rarely, if ever, questioned the teacher or the principal. - can see both sides of it
          • I hear what you are saying. - mtathome
      • I was an aide at my daughter's school and I was no yuppie, but that was - 25 yrs ago. Ouch!
  • Apparently the colleges/universities have the - saw that on news

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The doc's "words of wisdom" were that a small child's body knows when to rid itself of whatever it needs to get rid of and if you give a small child something like Pepto Bismol to try and stop the vomiting, you are only preventing them from ridding their systems of what they need to get rid of.  Makes sense.

Do look for signs of dehydration. Otherwise, get him a bowl and clean up the excess.

Hope he feels better.

the ShortHand programs, keyboard functions, etc. etc. I would say this is more like a geek board.  I don't understand half of what you all are saying. LOL

I wonder what the change is?  Do we parents have egos because now most of us have as much education as teachers do?  Are we unwilling to sit back and never question "authority figures"?  Do we remember being wronged in our own childhoods, so we're quick to defend?

I try not to be a buttinsky at my kids' schools, but sometimes I just don't agree with how they're doing things there.  One day, three bigger boys with bad home lives and a history of fighting jumped my son, who is the most peaceful kid you've ever met.  Two of them held him down while the third one was on top of him punching and kicking him.  My son had to bite the kids to get them off of him.  He was cut, bruised, and had a bloody nose.  Guess who got punished?  My son did, for biting.  I called the cops and intervened at the school because my son has my full permission to defend himself against bullies, especially on a 3-on-1 situation.

I also remember being punished for things at school when I did nothing wrong, then my parents punished me a second time because of what the teacher said.  I got detention for sneezing in class once.  One of my teachers publicly humiliated me and threatened to pull me out of all the advanced classes if I didn't publicly apologize to another teacher when I wasn't even the one who said whatever it was she was upset about.  One of my male teachers actually picked up a student and slammed him into the chalkboard, ripping the kid's shirt off in the process.  So yes, I'm going to stay on the schools and make sure my kids aren't hassled by any burnt out teachers who are just biding their time until retirement.  My kids aren't angels, but they're not demon spawn either.

Even if you are an employee for a company, they can't guarantee work.  The work comes from the dictating arena.  The MTSO doesn't have any control over that!!!  LOL

I need opinions please...I work on a very small account with just a handful of ladies.  Because of the nature of the software (trying not to get too specific here) we can see who is working online and what reports they are working on in real-time...

We have one cherrypicker on the account.  Instead of using FIFO method, she retrieves the reports by author ID - usually picking the better dictators of course.  She knows I busted her and she did admit to it in on our work e-mail (not too bright) which I am saving just in case she gets out of hand - so far I'm still able to make money since really most of the dictators aren't bad. 

But every night it's starting to wear on me since she's screwing up turnaround time.  I don't really want to cause a big uproar being that it is such a small account and I need to work with her almost every night usually one on one.

What would you all do?  I want to handle this as delicate and professional as possible because we can't really afford to lose anyone on this account.  In other words, I refuse to stoop to her level by cherrypicking right back.

My boss has asked me several times why so-and-so does so much more than I do...I just bite my lip at that point but one of these days I think I might explode and just open up a can of worms....

I'm really depressed and need someone; no religious stuff, though.

At what point should one give up one's children if you feel you aren't giving them  a good life?