ChasUFarley

I would think that the average public school kindergarten teacher would have had some experience and/or training in defusing whatever triggered this child to react the way she did. If not, then many schools have guidance councilors, assistant principals, etc., who have a least some training in psychology. Someone should have been able to talk this child down, comfort her and then show her to a secluded room or principal's office for her parents or guardians to pick her up. Since it is late in the school year, why is it that this little girl is so upset and the teacher not able to handle it? In otherwords, shouldn't the teacher be somewhat familiar with her behavior and able to deal with her appropriately? Calling the police, in my opinion, to get an out-of-control five year old would be like using a .38 Special to get rid of a pesky mosquito. (If this becomes the norm than I'll probably see the blue lights flashing in the KMart toy department - not because there's a special sale - but just because I told my son "NO!" and he threw a fit - like any kid his age would do!) I feel bad for the adults who had to encounter her but I would think that the "unpleasantries" that they suffered were nothing compared to how she felt when cuffed, stuffed and booked!

The best way I've found to get in touch with innies is to post something in the FRIEND FINDER section of the forums... ....you'd be amazed at who lurks 'round here!

Shellon.... uh.... how do I explain what Bob was referring to.... If you go a little "south" on the male anatomy there is an.... how do I say it without the filters filtering it out... an.... One of these! (The asterik) (_*_)

Yes. SHOCKED by my response, you say? Well.... At the time I made the best decisions I could to do what I believed was right at the time. I could spend the rest of my life as my own armchair quarterback but what would I gain from it? I am who I am today - warts and all - from my experieneces. You didn't ask if it was "painless" - only if it was worth it. (Some people confuse the two.) The other way I look at it is that I never would have met hubby or have the family I have today if we both hadn't been a part of TWI. We met after we had both left - not while we were in. Odd, but works for us (as we are the origional ODD COUPLE!)

Ain't that the truth! I still feel like I have to dry out my kitchen sink when I use it - those water droplets are a distraction, don't cha' know! Now that we have 2 kids (and 2 cats and 3 cars and a house and....) I've had to really drop my standards.... I keep telling myself that things will be okay... The thing that still makes me go into knots is being late or almost late for something - gawd I get nuts if I think I'm going to be late. Drives hubby up the wall - he's more punctual than I am but doesn't get his knickers in a knot about it if he's not...

Pattersons - were the LC's of NH until 2001 (I think...) but last I heard were on staff at HQ. Bo & Renee - Bo got ordained and was in the south as an LC, last I heard (late '90's) Chalmers were on staff, last I knew...

I went to a series of AA meetings several years ago with a friend who wanted me to join her. I sat just outside the circle while people discussed their issues, experiences, etc. or reviewed some books. After about our fourth meeting, I was able to "predict" what people would talk about. Some had been dry for 20+ years but still relieved the old drinking binges from way-back-when... Finally, one day, I asked (very, very diplomatically, of course...): When do you stop repeating the same story? When do you get past what happened 20+ years ago? The answers I got were as varied as some of the answers on this board - some said they didn't talk much about their distant past, others said they weren't ready to move on. The thing that struck me the most was someone saying, essentially that...: "I talk about the past so that I remember where I came from and so I can be thankful about where I am now. It keeps me grounded in reality because I don't ever want to go backwards..." I thought that was probably the most reasonable answer to my question. I also realized that some talked about it because they needed to connect with others with similar experiences. (Then there was the ones who just wanted to hear their own voices all the time...) (but anywho....) My point is: People will move on when they're good-n-ready. It's a pattern in life that keeps repeating itself.... ============================================== I've seen a lot of posters come and go from these boards in the five years I've been here... I've seen MANY sorta "chill" after they finally get to talk about whatever was eating at them - some have had a lot of anger, hurt and resentment... I think of this forum as a tool - it gets us from one place to another and hopefully we can make some new friends or reconnect with some old ones along the way. Life is too short for enemies. When I was thinking about leaving TWI in 1999, the forums showed me there was life outside TWI. When I was planning to leave, the forums gave me friends to connect with for support. After I left and started posting, the forums were my therapy and way to talk with others who had been thru similar experiences as my own. For me now, it's a way to stay in touch, hopefully connect with people who are just discovering the forums and to keep tabs on some friends who are still innies... My life was TWI for 12 years. The forums are only a facet of my life today. Peace.

They're building something made up of broken families, broken marriages, people living below-par because they're duped into dedicating their lives to something that's such a pile of dung that not even a dung beetle would touch it!

Shellon - Mr. Happy is not happy with that analogy.

That was worth the price of admision - kept my 3 year old busy and laughing for 15 mins!

(to the tune of "The Pink Panther") Dead ant, dead ant....Dead ant...Dead ant.Dead ant.Dead ant.Dead ant.Dead annnttt! (love the ant analogies)

Shell -- I also talked to Mathman about his - he said maps (like pull down maps) are also good. He also suggested posters and things for the walls - many schools also now use dry erase boards instead of chalk boards.

There's an easier way to set the line on a page - On the toolbar there's an icon for borders - it should look like a box with a cross in it and there's a little dropdown menu arrow on the right of the tool icon. If you click on the arrow it will show you what lines you can place in your document (left border, right border, border on all four sides, etc.,) select the one that looks like an underscore line. It will place a line in your document that will be in the parameters of the margins that you had set for your document. It would look something like this: ________________________________________________________

The TWIt-er would respond with.... Since good things can happen to the unjust, as they do to the just, then the fact that Mr. Doyle did not commit his life to the church is no suprise. However, you know that this was a false healing. Much like the psychic healings, it could not be a true healing because Mr. Doyle was not in the Household of the Promised Land of the Prevailing Word. Most likely, Mr. Doyle died a horrible death sometime later. The experience he had with the cancer scare was just to magnify the works of the adversary, if you really think about it. After all, cancer is a devil spirit. ================================= Bob -- When I had my first ultrasound of our second baby, the sonographer found a cyst on the baby's brain. It was a symptom of a condition that is fatal in babies, if they are ever born alive, called Trisome-18 - it's an extra chromosome, like Downs but more more serious, as it's fatal. To make a long story short -- When we went to another hospital and had a high resolution ultrasound done, the tech there couldn't find the cyst at all. Two more physicians confirmed the tech's findings. We were so relieved! Do bad things only happen to people who aren't with TWI? Was the cyst there because we were no longer standing with TWI? If so, why was it gone when we went for the hi-res ultrasound? Did I dedicate my life to the hospital that did the hi-res ultrasound? No - they were just doing their job - they had nothing to do with that cyst being there or not! There's no "logic" to what most people would call "fate". Things happen. TWI liked to super-analyze everything and either take ownship for it (only if it was "good") or blame it on unbelief. ========================= On another side note - not to derail this - but I knew people who weren't really "healed" but just threw out their meds and jumped on the "I owe my life to PFAL" or whatever. They were still as sick as they were before but just masked it with a "twig face"! They thought that if they were on psychotropic meds it was because they had a debbil spirut and this was 'unacceptable' - (never mind the fact that chemical imbalances in their brains could even be proven with tests)! What a dangerous teaching that was!

Now that the baby is napping I can type with both hands... A pastor takes care of the members of the church - Psalm 23 is a good example description, although people always associate it with death because of the "valley of darkness" line in it... Pastors are supposed to feed (with the Word), protect and nurture the members of the church.... A clergy's ministry won't always be revealed. Several that I knew did not want to discuss it because they didn't want the potential effectiveness of it taken away by people "looking" for it. Also, someone can have more than one active ministry - it all depends... God isn't limited to one ministry - just one gift of holy spirit. With the people that RFR has run off, ....ed off and turned off to TWI, I can't believe she's a "pastor" - gimme a break! (Again, Linda Z's response is rich!)

http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2005/04/17/ You gotta check this out if you didn't see it already in Sunday's paper (04/17/05) -

Roly-poly fish heads! :-) http://www.drdemento.com/ Enjoy! (I used to catch this show every Sunday night on WBLM out of Portland, ME - to drive my parents nuts!)

Cindy! O Captain My Captain has been put to music - I'll see if I can find it for you. It's done by David Broza and absolutely rocks - he doesn't add anything to the lyrics at all so it should be safe for the classroom and might add a nice dimention to the poem. ...

Jim -- I think I'm in love. You wrote: "Not Guilty. I do my own laundry, and share the rest of the stuff. I do the front lawn and keep the cars maintained, she does the back yard and keeps the clothes maintained. Works for us" Can you please send me some of your DNA so I can have a clone made? Bonus points if you'll change a diaper and feed the little critter every now and then.... And if you don't ask, "What's the matter with him?" when he cries - all the better!

WB- Many options for this one -- 1. You can hit return where you might want a line to break so the left & right footers don't run together. 2. The other thing you can adjust is your margins - go into page set up and tinker with your left & right margins - you can also move where you want your footers to hit. Don't go below 0.33", as most printers won't print outside that for a margin... 3. You could also format your font to be smaller or just use a different font - Ariel Narrow would probably work nicely and should be on your version of Word... Hope this helps....

do they need some books? boarders book stores has teacher discounts, so if you give teach a gift certificate for the classroom to boarders your $$ will go further than just the face value... ditto for staples office supplies store... good microscopes are expensive - $150 won't get you much... do they still do recess? how about some playground equipment? do they still do storytime or have a quiet reading area in the room? maybe some floor pillows, bookcases, mats, etc. to make the space a little nicer and more comfortable... are any of their classroom fixtures - american flag, state flag, etc. old or need replacing? computer equipment - you could get a decent scanner for them (and again, teachers get discounts with hp, apple, dell, etc. for these things) or maybe there's some software they need... I'm sure if you check with the teachers they can tell you - teachers in those grade levels spend a lot of their own money for things for the classroom - i'm sure they'd appreaciate anything you can do to help them!

i love linda z's response to the news that rfr is a pastor - i never, ever would have picked that - i thought someone's ministry was supposed to be apparent - not a mystery! interesting that a biblical research, teaching & fellowship ministry picks someone with the ministry of a pastor as a their 3rd prez.... what was lcm's ministry? (something tells me it wasn't teacher...) so who's left to research & teach? nuttin new has scampered across their mashed potatoes brains since vpw died - no one has really worked anything new, interesting or exciting. how many more years can they spend dissecting vpw's stuff before its too moldy? if anything they could be sued for false advertising on their logo!

Yeah... Sometimes I wish you would go somewhere to hide, too.* *Just kidding, of course! ((((Mr. H.))))

I'm a news junkie but I also o.d. from time-to-time... I listen to NPR more than I watch TV, but then I mostly "listen" to TV - I only watch movies, documentaries, concerts, etc. And of course, American Idol! I have a small business that I work at during the evenings, on the computer in the family room. Hubby is a big Fox News junkie (I always say that Ann Coulter is his fantasy mistress!) So, I end up hearing about current events for hours on-end. I can say I am ready for the coverage of the Wack-o Jack-o trial to be over! The TWI I was a part of wasn't into us not watching the news - but we just never had time for it. For the majority of the time I was in we didn't even have a TV - which was fine with me. I'm more into the radio, anyhow. We weren't in some info-bubble but I was still shattered to find out Michael Hutchins* (INXS) had been dead for several years when I got out - what a pity! *If you're a child of the 80's, like I am, this will mean something to you...

http://gscafe.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=9...9611#1241019611 NO! Not even with a bag over her head!