The "Bragging on my Kids" thread

“pretty cool gremlin!”

“Congrats to your daughter and a feather in your cap!”

“That's great grem! What's the film about? Dare I ask? lol...”

“Congratulations to Miss Gremlin!! How proud you must be!”

“Brag away Gremlin, brag away.”

“Yup. Looks like I have another 8 hour drive up in the near future. She promised me a copy and that's when I'll know what it's about.”

“Way to go! You must be very proud of her, Gremlin.”

“Congrads gremlin!


I just got some very good news myself.

My backpacking nephew that a few of y'all met at Mountain Mama's, 'Turtle', just got his ACT scores back.
He scored a 29, good enought to get him an automatic full ride scholarship to the local community college.
His mom and dad are of limited means, so this is really big. His first two years of college are paid for!”

“Smokies Trip 2003
Mountain Mama's


Sipsey Trip last fall

more Sipsey”

“Kewl!”

“Congrats Turtle!!!”

“You go, Turtle!

Congratulations Little Gremlin!”

“Have you heard of the Bookstore Basketball tournament at Univ Notre Dame? It involves somm 600 teams from folks affiliated with the school, including varsity athletes to the cafeteria staff, and all sorts in between. There's some restriction on how many varsity athletes can be on a team, and there can't be any basketball varsity (although, with this year's N.D. teams, the quality of the varsity athlete may be down a tad).

Anyway, my son's team made it to the Final Four, and were leading the team with ex-N.D. quarterback Carlyle Holoday on it at halftime, only to let the game slip away in the second half. My son got into a little scuffle with Holliday after the big tough jock threw a ball at my boy's back, but cooler heads prevailed; my son said Holliday "would have killed me."

But hey, they made the semi-finals. Am I proud??? And all the boys on my son's team are coming back next year!”

“congrades to you all...proud ones”

“dido. Congrats!!”

“Congrats Gremlin! Celebrate everything.

PJ2, my daughter is at ND too, small world. And last night in Blanding UT, a very small town, I saw a Porshe with ND 58 for a license plate.”

“


Cameron dressed up for his 1960's project. Well, he's a late 1960's I guess.

as a link”

“doesn't work does it? why does webshots have to make it so complicated?

One more time
as a link”

“Hey! Cameron found my old shirt!”

“My wife called me on my cell while I was in heavy traffic on my way to work. “Hi - are you driving?”

“Yes.”

“The school called – there’s a problem with ***”.

She paused long enough for about a jillion emergency scenarios to race through my mind.

“She made honor roll.”


#&%!$!


She’s really applied herself this year (high school freshman) and her counselor wants her to take all honors courses next year. She wants to only take honors science for the first half of the year and see how it goes before possibly going into all honors classes. I’m especially pleased that she likes science so much. There are far too few women in the sciences.

I’m so proud!”

“Congrats to each of you.”

“congrats!”

“LOL at Cameron! Rock Star! ;-)

Congrads on your kid violin.”

“Congratulations, everyone.

Doug”

“yea, more women in science!!”

“congrats violin!!! I know you're a proud daddy!!”

“ummm...are you sure she's yours?



HAHAHAHAHA!!! :-D i hope that one wasn't over the line. for real, congrats!”

“violin,

Congratulations to your daughter.

Please do some checking before she makes that decision. I'm sure it may be different there but, my daughter was in the same position going into last year. She opted for the honors science only for the same reason and it would have actually beeen easier if she was in the honors math too. It may not be the same there but in her class the honors science used formulas and procedures that were not taught in the college level math and she (we) were left to learn it on her own. It all worked out fine and she is still on the honor roll but it was a struggle that didn't have to be.


Gemini, congratulations to you too.”

“You guys are so lucky, my kids are bums.”

“Thanks pepsi, we're actually moving to a new (excellent) school district over the summer so we'll have to take that up with her new counselor.”

“Gemini, Cameron looks like Nigal's favorite guitar player!”

“MarkO...and that would be who??

I know I prolly shouldn't ask...can't be smart of me...”

“Well, I just got a letter from the school inviting me to a awards ceremony on May 26th to see Stacia receive an award.


I sure hope it's not a crybaby trophy.”

“Talked to my daughter this afternoon. Her grades are in -- 2 A's and 2 A-'s for the second semester at U-Mich's Honors Program, putting her somewhere around a 3.8 for overall GPA. The transition to big time academics seems to be going very smoothly. She'll have junior standing in the fall -- only two more years to go, YAHOO!”

“I mentionned this on another thread. I drove 8 hours and 450 miles to see my daughter's prize winning short film. Her team won Cdn 1 500 $ and an invitation to Cinéfest (Canada's 4th largest) and they're submitting to Sundance.

Then we went out for a fancy dinner and got drunk to-gether. When we got back, her boyfriend (a geologist and a really great guy) was there and so we cracked open another bottle of wine and talked. They told me yesterday morning that I was really well behaved (thank Gawd).

Just wwanted to share.”

“On the same day that my oldest daughter received her commendations for being Youth of the Year in our town (commendations from Senator, Representative, state senator, state rep, mayor, Chamber of Commerce, county supervisor, and the head dogcatcher), she got another scholarship in the mail ($1500) and went to her prom. (This is the girl who even though she's 5' 7" is the leading basketball rebounder in the county for the second year in a row.) Big day for her!!!”

“my son is off to cover E3 again this yr. He left yesterday and will be back next Sat. I should have the pics of all the hot babes at E3 up by middle of next week.

here is a sample of what you might see couple of models from last yr”

“Last night at the awards ceremony, my son was given recognition for a scholarship received and an award/plaque for "outstanding strength and conditioning student". Yeah, he's all that!! ;-)”

“My son went to E3 last month in Ca. He Im'ed me today to tell me to look at www.Forbes.com then click on SonyPSP vs Nintendo DS. When I did there was his picture taken at the Nintendo Booth. He said Forbes contacted him to get his permission to use his picture on their website.”

“cool Ewker.

my turn now.


My son (6th grade) completely blew off school back in Feb and March. He brought home some really dismal grades that period. So, being grounded with no x-box, tv or much else, he worked really hard, applied himself and basically removed his head from betwixt his buttcheeks. Last grading period he proved that he can do it when he simply decides too.

For the year he posted a 3.5 grade avg (4.0) scale. Thats with a couple of Fs, Ds and Cs in the mix from his blow off semester too.”

“Good work with your kid Roam.

I couldn't find that link at forbes, ewker. Is this the picture you were talking about?”

“Violin, thanks. I went back to see if myself and couldn't find it.”

“Are you a descendent of Braveheart?”

“Thanks! - He did change his mind and work really hard.”

“dang kids are all the same. why you think mine is grounded? I wanna hurt him, I swear. LOL

Ewker! Cool he's on his way to be america's top model. LOL ;)”

“Oh you shoulda heard me, I had a fit. then 2 weeks after the chitty report card, the interim report came home AND IT WAS JUST AS BAD!

Ask him next time you see him how I reacted Gemini! He was scared!

lol, it worked though!”

“My oldest daughter is graduating from high school tonight.
YEAH!!!”

“congrats maple!!

Roam...I can imagine. Mine is more scared of dad then of me. Not sure why, because I am the one that will have a fit, and take pretty much everything he owns.

I sure hope this will change, he did realize for the first time that he really hurt my feelings. bought him a book about getting ready for college. I'll make him read it, then write an essay, and tell me about it. LOL Punish his a$$.

after he's back in school he will also do at least 2 hours of homework. I don't care if he has any or not. He will work 2 hours. Midaswell do his homework then right??

Told him he will have to earn my trust again. Hmm...hope I am doing the right right think here.

anyway...altogether, I have some great kids. :) I luv them to death.”

“I made destructo do all the homework and classwork he had blown off and go over it with me. He had to ask the teachers if they would accept it late and apologize for not doing it the first time. Most said "sorry kid" a couple accepted the late work and gave partial credit.

He then had to show me his homework every night and if he had none, he did problems or read each night anyway.

Similar approach.

The kids have gotta learn that school is important and you/me/we gotta find a way to make it important to them, to get them to view it as important too!

thats the trick.”

“"My oldest daughter is graduating from high school tonight.
YEAH!!!"
mapleleaf
01:25:16 PM
06/11/04

CONGRATS MAPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats awesome! - pass that along too!”