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We are doing a project on baseball from 1960's to now, he has no idea what baseball is.
That really just made me think of something. I hate when people complain that they can't understand foreigners. I'm 100% deaf in my right ear and about 20% deaf in my left. I can hear them just fine. You just have to not be blinded by your prejudice of them not speaking the language as naturally as you. It actually kinda makes my blood boil.
Sub out the deck design to me or at least give me a pie for a onetime consultation. I don't want you to have a house with a tacky mismatched deck. It’s one of my designer pet peeves.
Nice new homes with shantytown decks make me crazy.
I sympathize with him. And be nice to him, having to speak and learn in a foreign language in a different country is much more difficult than learning the language in a class.
and what does it matter that he doesn't know what baseball is? Sports are typically far down on the list of things you need to know when learning another language
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This. Having been host to three exchange students (Norwegian girl, two German boys), there's a curve. They may have studied the language for years, but immersion in it is an entirely new situation. For our students, the breakthrough would come when they realized they were no longer performing mental translations. Two of them were very excited the first time they dreamed in English.
Sub out the deck design to me or at least give me a pie for a onetime consultation. I don't want you to have a house with a tacky mismatched deck. It’s one of my designer pet peeves.
Nice new homes with shantytown decks make me crazy.
no deck, patio instead. What's your favorite house exterior color? I think that's on our list to do.
Got a random question for the parents out there.... At what age does play kids equal give them a ribbon, turn to, play the best players and win??
My brother is going through this issue coaching his son's 8th grade basketball team. He played kids equal up till jr high and now he is playing them to win, and who puts out the effort. Some parents want to kill him for it. The ones complaining are the parents that have kids that sit and play video games and never leave the house.
Thanks, I'll hang up and listen...
My brother is going through this issue coaching his son's 8th grade basketball team. He played kids equal up till jr high and now he is playing them to win, and who puts out the effort. Some parents want to kill him for it. The ones complaining are the parents that have kids that sit and play video games and never leave the house.
Thanks, I'll hang up and listen...
It's a US history class. We are going projects Social/Cultural Trends, so I picked baseball.
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were shocked he didn't know what baseball was.
8th grade is the right time, and is usually the time when kids either get serious about it or quit. There will be parents like that all the way through high school, it's frustrating but just part of the job.
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I am not good with color. When I was younger everything was still in black and white and I have never adjusted well to this color thing. Probably why I am always favoring gray tones or taupes!
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I do wish I had gone a shade darker with my stucco color. Light to medium exterior colors do always seem to look lighter than you think when finally done up "full scale". And full facepalm if you are considering anything with any sort of yellowish tint to it.
I was walking around a neighborhood of spendy houses with my 6x6 color sample comparing it to stucco colors there. Walked up to a house and was going to ring the door bell and ask about their color when I saw the Sunday paper still there and figured no one was home so walked up and placed the sample against their wall for comparison. Of course their front door opens and they ask what the heck I am doing. When I said "looking at house colors" they were all "oh, cool, we did the same thing."
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I think the worst part for my brother is that the parents are real good friends with not only him, but the bike team we are on. They're taking it as a personal thing, but don't realize their son has not put the work in to continue to be one of the top 5 starters or even top 7 overall on the team. So now all of us, even the ones who live 2 hours away like myself, have to hear about it non stop.
blech, no yellow on the outside of the house unless it's in flowers or fall leaves. Blech.
Is there a way to list the expectations the coaches have of the players overall in terms of getting playing time? A way to gently point out that their son not playing is likely more due to his lack of effort than the coach's fault? Maybe charting the active participation in practices, extra practice shots made? That will only work if it's lack of effort, though.
If it's a lack of innate skill there really isn't a gentle way to tell them that other boys have passed their son by in terms of athletic prowess.
I don't subscribe to the participation ribbon theory, but I also think that too many parents are stage/sideline parents who drive their kids long past the point of where the kid is actually having fun anymore. Competition or not, they're still just kids playing a game.
That is a really tough spot.
Had a couple of parents like that complain before at the same age. Invited them in for a couple of practices, just so they could really see their son in action and see how we make our decisions with playing time. They saw that their son wasn't up to par with most of the kids, and it actually worked quite well to solve the conflict.
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