Try typing the words 'teacher appreciation' into the Google search engine. All kinds of ways to appreciate teachers pop up. I LOVE teachers but none of them that much.

I think my parents used the approach that we were always up to something so they'd throw out a random "knock it off". My brother and I would look at each other with the "how'd they know?!?!" look.

JHB - LMAO @ stripers/strippers... wonder if they tried hookers.com LOL Not sure if that's a site, i'm afraid to type it in as i'm at the school right now. Those boys might get a kick out of those construction warning signs you see on the highway sometimes: STRIPING CREW AHEAD

we could make a game out naming fish-related sexual innuendos. LOL

Okay, I'm in shock. Had parent/teacher conference last night for my son. It took 3 minutes! No lenghty behavior issue discussion, no missing work. I just want this teacher to move on with my son for the rest of his educational career. This is the first year he has had a teacher who truly makes sure he is challenged and stimulated. I felt like giving him a big hug-hugged my son instead.

I love to be able to sit in the living room downstairs and tell my children who are upstairs "don't even think about doing such and such". They come down the stairs and want to know how I know. Parents just become able to identify certain sounds and tones of voice. Makes the kids nervous!

JHB - that's too funny! What is it about kids that makes them not know they can be seen, heard and very easily caught. I don't think they think that far ahead. They just live in the moment.

beignets - good one. I like it. MIL loves Paula Dean - and her two handsome sons.

Cold, gray and wet in Alabama today. I think it's a good napping day.

shawn, my soul mate is that chef on the food network, who says it aint no recipe of mine if it aint got a stick o butter in it. paula dean, i think is the name.
glad you like shawnshuefus. no copyright violation, i hope ms shue doesnt sue..on the other hand .maybe a good way to meet her..

and as for the ITS, or "you go ITS", could stand for "Irrespective The Sex".

is anyone following me anymore? i know CC will get 'IT'. it DOES make sense if you follow 'social' thread lately.

Thanks all for the many helpful suggestions. I, too, find car rides a good time to talk - not to mention having a captive audience helps also.

We actually had a funny episode along this line when he was in 5th grade. A sub caught some boys trying to visit adult sites during computer time. (Bright idea - all the computers line the walls facing OUT, with a teacher monitoring access.) My son wasn't one of the key parties, but I imagine he was aware - I think ALL the boys in the room were.

When I spoke to the principal (a friend), she told me what had happened and that she was pretty sure the kids didn't see anything because of the filter, but she'd called the tech department to check. (And she had called the boys into her office and talked about appropriate computer activity.)

I helped her pull the browser history on the machine and we saw the addresses the boy had tried. (And the filter did block adult material, so no one saw anything inappropriate.) But it was a really odd pattern. They tried a couple adult sites, then a site on sport fishing, then adult sites, then back to the fishing site. Fishing?? Why in the world were they going there in the middle of this exploration? But looking at the address, we figured it out.

They were typing something like www.striper.com . Turns out a "Striper" (one "P") is a type of bass. Must have been quite a disappoint to hit a site that didn't get stopped by the filter only to see pictures of fish instead of strippers!

The principal and I laughed our heads off, and I teased her that what really need attention was not the 5th grade porn problem, but the 5th grade spelling problem!