My kids hated organized sports and groups. They
Posted By: sm on 2006-09-21
In Reply to: Kids schedules outside of school....sm - Southern belle
are both social, happy kids, but enjoy spending their spare time with Lego's, pets and especially reading. My 5th grader reads at an 11th grade reading level and my freshman reads well beyond college level. Both enjoy school very much and are on the Challenge tracks, A's and B's. But I think they have learned how to entertain themselves and enjoy a slower pace because we don't have a T.V. Definitely gears down the speed of life.
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At gas station 12 yrs ago pumping gas - me in my daisy dukes & sports car; he in his sports car!
It happens with all groups, everywhere, anytime…
this post was like if you let your children go to daycare, see what happens. The world has become so evil that it just does not apply to if you have your children in day care. Remember about the mother in Texas, stay at home, who drowned her 5 children at 1 time. Beautiful children and yet a mother no less. You cannot just say not on my watch. That is what I was speaking about. I think lots of people have their heads in the sand thinking just home front is safe and secure.
They are 2 private groups. SM
What exactly do you want to sue them for? Your post makes no sense.
was absolutely evident by the age groups there..nm
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Favorite Artists/Groups
I love Rob Thomas, Maroon 5, Constantine Maroulis (AI season 5), Barry Manilow (don't laugh now), Phil Collins, Elton John and a lot of the AI gang. In fact, I'm off now to see them in Rochester.
Who R your fave music artists/groups?
I looove Joni Mitchell, Karla Bonoff, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Dixie Chicks, Elton John, Beatles, Eminem...
Thicken your skin. Other groups are making
Its just human nature.
Lots of HMO's are owned by religious groups these days -
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School sports
I think it's a sign of maturity that he is ready to concentrate on something else. Be glad he is ending it before he gets hurt. My DH has had to have rotator cuff surgery, cervical spine surgery, and knee surgery, all due to high school and college sports.
I saw a news story this morning about a previously healthy boy in grade school who died after his football practice.
You are very fortunate.
According to Fox Sports today . . .
"Hey, we simply didn't play well enough to win," Hasselbeck said. "We can't blame this loss on the calls out there."
Obviously Hasselbeck has more grace and class than the sore losers on this board.
I went to a sports med doctor and got
a steroid injection - I could not even lift and hold a cup of coffee to my mouth - that's how bad it was bilateral elbows. First shot provided complete relief for about 3 months, and then it returned. Had second shot, and it has been gone now for years!! Way worth it! Don't waste your time with braces and the like. Just fix it! It sure hurts!
Great sports too
Must add, if you are a sports fan, the Denver professional sports teams are always exciting. One of them (football, hockey, basketball, baseball) is usually on track to have a championship year. Denver itself is also a pretty neat city. Can't emphasize enough the beauty of the state and the outdoor opportunities all times of the year. Skiing is admittedly a rather pricey sport, but there are bargains out there if you look hard enough. Also, I notice when I go back home to the Midwest to visit family how healthy Colorado people seem by comparison. I have heard Colorado people are among the healthiest--because there is no excuse not to get out and be active when you live in such a beautiful state. We raised our kids here and, as Debbb says, it is a great place to do that.
Especially if we were organized enough to...sht msg
collectively refuse to fix it for them when the reports come back.
me too, used to be very organized, but not lately - sm
desk is a mess, MB is a mess, house is a mess...you get the picture. Spent a half hour the other day shredding papers/bills, etc. Trying to get a handle on it, need to slow down and not work so much!
if you are organized and have a sm
huge bank of shortcuts you can do 300 lph easy and more even doing operative reports. I have done it for years!
High School Sports
I too went through that with my son and his playing baseball. He was a junior in high school, was offered a full-ride scholarship to college as a pitcher, and just up and quit the sport. There were so many politics in high school sports, who knows who, whose kid gets to play because they know the coach, that kind of BS. I think the kids really feel it and just get tired of it. My son totally walked away from it, leaving me devastated, but that was his decision. I cried for him. Good luck to you!! 
they have to keep boards organized....N/M
Hey Busy, come help me get organized...sm
Yo Busy!!
You seem to be the MOST organized of all my acquaintences!!! Kudos to you!!! Come help me get more organized. *LOL*
S. Florida friend !! 
My organized granddaughter.
I am visiting my son this week, and decided to help my granddaughter clean her "spotless" room. She is such a neat freak.
What a smart little girl. I went into her closet where she keeps her electronic equipment. Every single cord for each item was neatly folded and slipped into empty paper towel (aluminum foil, toilet paper) rolls and labeled. She had attached a small velcro square to the equipment and one to the paper roll. It was so neat.
I invited her to come home with me and organize my house.
Organized religion
basically is another club. It ends up being about its own entity and not the spirituality it is supposed to embrace. Christ said basically the same thing when he was on earth.
Maybe you could get the other employees together to voice your feelings and needs to this employer to see if you can prompt some very necessary changes. If not, I would start seriously looking for a healthier work environment.
Remember that it is also not good for the people who take advantage to be allowed to do so (work or personal).
I am so sorry about your friend/co-worker. I hope you can gain strength from this loss to make some changes.
organized religion
Your comment aboput organized religion is off teh subject and snarky. This person did not die because it was A CATHOLIC hospital and I for one am tired of this sort of modern day sneering. I work at a Catholic Hospital. I absolutely loathe the manager who will not give me a singel Sunday off but she herself is a Catholic and tries to tell me waht church to go to. She's not a jerk becuase of her religion. She's just a jerk. Period. I won't die from stress becuase my life is worth more that 400 lines. But to make off the wall comments about religion is not ok.
I hated it also and am now doing MT again.
At least we can say we tried it and didn't like it. I love transcribing and will never do QA again! This, after transcribing for 25 years and QA for 5. Can't believe it took me 5 years to realize how much I hated it. I was miserable and am very happy now, again!
I can relate!
I have tried one and hated it sm
I finally gave up and went back to the regular flat one. HOWEVER, when I did, I found I was holding my hands differently than I had previously. I went to an ergo to help hand and wrist pain, but it really didn't do much. Adjusting how I hold my wrists, paying attention to other issues of ergonomics and retraining myself is what really helped enormously.
Been in the 3 worst professions for carpal tunnel and these are the only types of jobs I have held in my adult life. Carpal tunnel? Not me! The first local AAMT meeting I ever attended addressed issues related to hand position, chair height and other work station problems. That is probably why I am still comfortable working all these years later.
I hated it...
We used EditScript and I hated the platform so much that when I found out we were going back to it, I quit. That is the first time I've ever had a problem with a platform. I didn't mind the actual VR work or the typing...I just felt that there were too many things that had to checked, double checked, triple checked (location codes, WT codes, demographic settings, etc) and yet I wasn't getting paid to do any of that. Not to mention the spellcheck was a total waste of time.
Kind of off topic but the company I worked for paid 3.5 for VR and 7 for straight, but I was QA so it was easy for me to accumulate tons of lines daily...but I definitely wouldn't want to work like that as an MT.
I would LOVE to come to Florida and help you get organized!!
I just might call on you sometime!!!!
not for long - impeachment is being organized
*rubs hands together in anticipation of that day*
Stedman's is organized a bit differently sm
and that is probably why I didn't like Tessier's at all. I have other word books besides Stedman's and I don't like them either! The only thing I like as well would be the MPI and I hardly ever use mine now.
In all fairness, I probably Google more than I do anything. If I am looking for a ronguer or scissors or suture or needle, I use the M&S word book to find that. If I am looking up a new drug-eluting stent, I google, BUT I can make what I am looking for so specific that I find less than 100 sites for most things. I don't ever file through pages of it because that is useless too.
I dunno...only ever do OPs, have for a long time and it is to the point where I rarely have to search for anything. Despite my advanced age, my near photographic memory is still highly functional. I thought that would be the first thing to go, but it wasn't. In other ways, my brain is a junkyard. I can remember a piece of equipment I transcribed only once 4 years ago, but I can't remember where I put my purse or keys!
Must haves... an organized desk.
Also space heater; love that; more cozy especially since I'm in our partially finished basement/family room. HAHA!
My nails bother me too if they get too long, and I do my own little manicures when that happens, so I can feel more comfortable - I agree on the nails.
Coffee till around 9:30, shower, and then soda all day long, but it usually just sits there. I have to have lip stuff in case my lips get dry, and I also have pictures of my kids, my husband and I, and my nieces and nephews, just to remind me that I'm not out of touch... 
Parents and children? How 'bout fishing, sports, his job, etc. nm
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Who is Drew Lachey? TV, singer, sports dude?
Hated my first year
I really hated my first year of MT. I worked in an office, which was really great experience to be surrounded by other MTs who helped me learn, but I was always frustrated, my back and shoulders hurt getting used to sitting in place all day, and I wondered if I was ever going to be able to get up to a good speed and not have to look up 20 things in every report. After about a year I finally started getting in the groove of things and for the next few years tolerated it and then finally started enjoying it.
Favorite most hated dictators......
His reports are 15-20 minutes long.......and about 7 pages of dictation and about and hour of whistling to fill the caps when he is looking for information in the chart. To top it off.......he dictates in a monotone. My eardrums are killing me!
I did and hated every minute of it. I am now back to
SE and so much happier. I couldn't handle the sitting for eight scheduled hours every day. I like the flexibility of getting my required lines for the day and then typing more whenever I can. Fortunately, I didn't need the insurance benefits (my husband carries insurance) and I went back to SE after seven months of full time. I am sure there are people who love full-time, just not me. Whatever you decide, I wish you the best. Have a great day! 
3-1/2 weeks...though knew from day 1 I hated it.
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I had it for a year and hated it and changed the day after my
contract was up. Download speed is not dependable - it can be fast or as slow as dial-up. Uploads are usually faster as they are usually are text files, which are much smaller than a voice file. If you have trees that may have branches that will blow in front of the dish during windy weather you may lose service. If it is raining hard of snowing hard you can and probably will lose service. I had service with DirecWay and their customer service stinks.
Can you get cable internet?
we are hated all over the world today....
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I'm with you, Peg. I hated EMDAT. I will never touch
Demographics weren't filled in and had to look up every doctor name/address, and sorry, but the spellcheck was horrid. Even with the "setup" the company gave me that was supposed to correct it, it was the worst I've ever seen. Please, Rosey, do not make such broad statements and expect everyone to love something merely because you do. A lot depends on how the company maintains their platform. Have you ever worked on any other platforms? EMDAT is one of the most cumbersome programs out there so I doubt you've had much experience with more sophisticated platforms.
Sports - 1 sport a season. Fall = football for son and volleyball for daughter. sm
Their class load and homework is enough; however, the love sports and are great at too. So, I allow one sport per season, meaning Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. Fall = football and volleyball.
Winter = swimming and winter volleyball.
Spring = Lacrosse for both.
Summer = whatever they choose.
They choose what they want and if they choose not to do a sport any particular season, that is fine with me. They do not go out on school nights and their weekend activity is limited due to their sports. It works, and they stay out of trouble and both are on the honor roll.
Too many activities is just too stressful both all. My kids will tell me when they feel burnt and need a day off and I am fine with that. I tell them to stay home that day from practice.
It works for us.
She said she hated the laptop but was hesitant to get another. That is why I said wait.
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DSG offered me 10 to start. BUT they are on DQS and I hated that, so left after sm
a few months! Good luck! Yes, you do deserve it.
definite dearth of good TV on Sunday. Hafta watch weather, sports
Friend was there, hated it, payement & system issues, etc. I'd say No. nm
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This actually looks do-able. I haven't dieted since a teen. Hated obsessing about food.
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I hated it - but if you do go ahead with it, I have the proprietary foot pedal you'll need that I
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Hated it. The office politics, the dressing up, the back-stabbing. I do in 4 hours what I did in 8
at home. That hospital environment with all those women backstabbing, worrying about how long other people took for breaks or lunch, who was in favor with the supervisor, who fit in with the cliques, UGGGGGGHHHHH! I can't believe I am saying this but MQ looks good compared to those days now that you got me to thinking. (Not that good pay-wise/benefit-wise though)
Do little kids like caramel? My big kids won't even eat it! We make the basic Baker's chocolat
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I never said you shouldn't have kids! Feeling guilty? I asked WHY you had kids.
You clearly stated in your post that you ship the kids off to camp all day, and they're TIRED AT NIGHT!! You know exactly what you said. You said it as a PERK - AS IN GREAT! They're gone all day, it wears them out, and so I shovel dinner in their mouths and off to bed! You can try to paint it any way you want, but YOU SAID IT. Again, I only hope your kids never hear you speak that way or write that way. Shame on you. Why have kids at all? Just another parent who has them, gets rid of them for day AND night, BRAGS ABOUT IT, and then calls ME wicked! Give me a break! Camp is fine - its WHAT YOU SAID AND YOU KNOW IT. Your own words showed your heart. Period.
Kids are demanding and so is MT work. My question is how CAN you do this with kids, rather than how
When you have two young kids, 11 months apart, (like I stated they are now 4 and 5) and have been doing this since they were born with no help from their father and no family around, YES, the kids get neglected. Part time might work but living on one salary, part time, is not an option. How can you possible tell me that anyone with two young kids can stay at home and work a full-time, 8-hour shift, and still give their kids the attention they NEED. I dont care how good you are at multitasking and how great your organizational skills are. It is a very difficult thing to do. And I am offended by your post making it sound as if it is easy to do.
I do agree that it can depend on how well your kids behave and how well they are able to play on their own. But my kids were not able to play well on their own. They needed constant attention.
So please take the time to realize that there are people out there in different situations than your own.
Reading our posts should help you to understand that everyone has a different situation. I believe everyone should have the right to shares their experiences as it might benefit the original poster in her questions and concerns.
I dont think anyone should be bashed for taking the time out to write about their experiences. I dont usually come on here to argue but you really ticked me off with your post. And try reading the post correctly. I said next time around I would have put them in day care. What I DID do with them was set them up to an activity like art or put on a movie for them. Geez.
Stayed "because of the kids?" I say "leave because of the kids"
You're in no position to buy right now. Keep saving, keep paying down your bills, and for heaven's sake get rid of that dead weight of a BF you're living with. You can do better.
So, should I return the $75 (x2 kids) in music cards I got the kids for x-mas...sm
My son has been telling me about free music sites and I was very leary. How do they skirt the law Radguy?
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