I used to have this saying that I shared with my friend Chrissy – “three year olds suck.” Well, since Xander has turned four I’ve had to adapt the saying. So, now I believe “four year olds suck” and here’s why. The hissy fits are horrible! We try and do everything “right” and limit television, limit games, have consequences for actions, naptime, “talking to” and everything else. We aren’t perfect parents but we, as all other parents do, want what’s best for our son.
Where this completely spoiled, on the floor howling banshee came from I have no idea.
He’s just not in “listening mode” anymore. You say anything to this child and he flips the freak out.
He is directly disobedient and then absolutely FREAKS when he has to pay for it. Case in point, him and his daddy were playing the Wii and he kept jumping up and down in front of his daddy, not sharing, not listening, etc. So – my husband turned off the game. I said “five minutes until bath” which he knows since Dora was on and she was singing her “We Did It” song signifying the end of the show. Well, he throws a screech-fit and throws himself on the floor. I know he’s tired. So, I calmly say – alright, turn off the television it’s time for bath. He walks up to the tv and gets sucked in the watching the damn “Jumparounds” (gawd I hate them!) and his daddy steps in.
Xander is told to turn off the television now or no bath tonight. Of course he ignores that and daddy turns off the television and says alright, no bath tonight.
TANTRUM!!!!!!!!
They are in Xander’s room and I think hubby is giving Xand a stern talking to. These fits are just ridiculous. We need to maintain the “no bath” tonight – hopefully hubby doesn’t promise him a bath.
134 on E-6 list by mistake; others left off
By Mark D. Faram – Staff writer – Navy Times
Posted : Friday May 29, 2009 10:03:18 EDT
Because of an error in calculating advancement quotas, 134 full-time support sailors in 15 ratings who should not have been on the spring E-6 list were identified for advancement to petty officer first class, Navy officials say.
Also, officials say another 31 sailors in 11 ratings will advance, also because of a miscalculation of quotas; some ratings were shorted quotas they were supposed to get.
“I know it is a very bad thing to hear on Thursday you are going to be advanced to first class petty officer and then find out the following Wednesday that it’s not true,” said Rear Adm. Dan Holloway, head of manpower plans and policy for the chief of personnel.
“So we are working with the individual commands who have sailors effected by this to notify them individually.”
Further complicating the issue is the fact that many of the misidentified sailors already may be wearing first-class crows. New command-delivered education requirements that must be met before sailors can be frocked will not kick in for E-6 sailors until this fall’s advancement cycle.
Frocking is a Navy tradition that allows sailors to assume the title, responsibilities perks of their new rank before they are paid for it.
The error was discovered May 26 by a community manager at Navy Personnel Command who brought it to the attention of his leadership, Holloway said.
“This was caused by an error in the transcription process,” Holloway said. “Specifically, the error occurred as the quotas from the approved spread sheet were manually entered into proper form to be sent down to Pensacola [Fla.] where the cutoff levels are set and the names of those to be advanced are generated.”
Because of the incident, the transcription procedures are being reviewed, and Holloway expects that extra checks will be put into the system from now on.
Seriously Navy, are you freaking KIDDING ME? I can’t even imagine dealing with this! The “hey guess what” calls have been made, the “congrats” have already been flowing … it’s HIGHLY embarrassing – and it’s not even the Sailors’ fault! There are going to be some severe fallout from this. I’m calling it.
A great blog for military families, “Bursting with Pride” (http://www.burstingwithpride.org/) has posted an interesting article about whether to add to those deployment candy jars and paper chains or take them away.
We’ve never done the candy jars; but we’ve used the calendar method (BIG x’s crossing off days) and the paper chain.
Check out the post on Bursting with Pride!! More ideas can be found on Military One Source!
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