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Footage of the car in action - courtesy Ford.com
Cars could soon come with parental controls that limit what younger drivers can do with a vehicle.
Developed by Ford, the MyKey system limits a car's top speed, how loud its stereo can be and sounds warnings if seatbelts are not being worn.
Ford will introduce the controls on some US makes of car that are due to debut in 2009 but go on sale in 2010.
The Ford Focus will be the first to have MyKey, but the car maker said it would become a standard feature.
Warning tones
The main element of the MyKey system is to limit the top speed of a car to 80mph.
Ford says other options allow parents to limit the volume on the car stereo and make the car sound a continuous alert if drivers and passengers are not wearing a seatbelt.
Other options will let parents decide if warning tones should sound if a car goes faster than 45, 55 or 65 mph.
The car giant said the system built on the ID chips it already used in car keys to hamper car theft.
"It's making use of existing technology, and through the magic of software, we're able to build features on top of the features we already have," sad Jim Buczkowski, Ford's director of electronic and electrical systems engineering.
Ford's compact version of the Focus, which is due to go on sale in 2010, will be the first to sport MyKey. But a spokesman said it would spread to all cars in the Ford, Lincoln and Mercury range as models are updated.
"Research we've done has shown that speeding is a major factor in teen crashes, especially novice teen drivers," Anne McCartt, senior vice president for research at the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, told the AP news agency.
"So I think a system that tries to correct the speeding behaviour has the potential to improve safety," she added.
I am actually pretty excited about tonight. After my long tiring weekend with friends over till late Sunday afternoon, I vegitated all day yesterday. I didn't do shit! I even took the fajitas I made Saturday and reheated the meat and veggies for last nights dinner! I should have used that for tonights dinner but that is okay! I busted out the patato soup I made a few weeks back and froze the left overs!
I need some help with two subjects for my next paper. We are doing a compare and contrast paper. I want subjects/topics that are orginal. DeLaney suggested Dogs and Cats. Coltin sugested marital arts (any two), Randy has made no suggestions. My girl Teri suggested Paganism vs Christanity (to indepth of topics I think) and my girl Bree suggested long hair vs short hair. The only thing I have come up with is washing the dishes by hand or by dishwasher!
I want topics that that is orginal but not a lot of research. I have to have all my homework done by Friday afternoon before I pick the kdis up from school. We are leaving for Sioux Falls for the weekend right after I pick them on Friday. We are going to our Regional TKD tourny. I can get the majority of my homework done today but I need my subjects for my next paper to do a compare/contrast chart for one of the assignments! Please help!
Anyway I have an IEP meeting today at 2:30 with DeLaney's speech teacher, then we have to blaze to TKD, after TKD we blaze home, I'll get the kids feed, Randy can get their homework and baths done and at 7, I'll blaze to the Pub. Our pool league starts tonight. Yay! I have decieded I am treating myself with a few drinky drinks tonight! I need them! :D
I can't wait! Tuesdays are definatally going to be my night!
While they look forward to meeting their favorite uncles and aunts, maybe even receiving gifts from them, Thanksgiving has no special activity that caters exclusively to them. A whole lot of adults meeting to catch up on the family news, over an elaborate dinner, is hardly something to excite kids, so that they are largely left to themselves, and may end up feeling a bit left out.
As a dad you can help your kids by explaining the meaning of Thanksgiving. Knowing about it and what it stands for will help them appreciate the essence of this celebration.
Getting children to help with preparing the Thanksgiving dinner could be another way to make them feel included. Not only does it make them feel responsible, they'll look forward to the event of the actual dinner much more if they've had a role to play in its preparation.
I keep thinking that everything is going tochange and one we will both wake upand say lets go our separate ways and live life beofre we screw it up for ourselves. So i'll keep waiting, even though i know it is hopeless. Of course i want children i love kids and i find myself thinking about it all the time lately. However i feel like i would go crazy at the same time, have another human being always attached to my leg whinning and crying for my attention, feed me bathe me, love me , carrry me, read to me, play with me, do my laundry, clean my room. The list is endless. I dont percieve myself being mature enough to handle that kind of demand just yet. I need to get my life in order and be able to do what i am supposed to do first. Not to mention i have t oget this travelling bug out of myy system before i even consider it and plus im scared..... because i might wait to long and never have one or like now we are being ridiculos and NOT using any protection and we havent for a long while now and im still not pg. I am afraid that there is something wrong with me. Then i think well if i keep not using protection and i get pg what will my family think of me. will they be disapointed or mad???? i feel so embarressed to confess in front of them bc they have a way of making me feel stupid and i just want them ALL to be proud of me and love me for who i am not what they think i should be. I love him so much its unreal but i feel like we are on two different paths... wait no i feel like we are on the same path but then im split in two and half of me wants to go one way and the other wants to stay put. With out boths halves in the same place at the same time i will never be happy NO matter what i end up doing and thats what scares me most of all.
I just feel like there is no way out. I'm trapped and gasping for aire. Its like i cant breath but at the same time i dont have the need to so its exrutiating but i still live on and am powerless to die yet also powerless to do anything about any of it. I m just so sick of the life that we are both living right now and i feel sorry for both of us. It is so hard to be happy when you spend your days with someone who is so depressed they woul just rather sit and stare off into the past than actually live for the moment.
blessed be
My kids part 11
Unique case 4: The Sweetest Little Girl Ever
It’s really not all bad. For this, the final installment of My Kids while I am still working (Well, I worked today so I think that counts), I have chosen my absolute favorite kid, The Sweetest Little Girl Ever. She is in the second grade, meaning I only get to see her in class once every two months or so, but I do get to see her in the halls and outside of school.
I always talk with The Sweetest Girl. She makes real attempts to learn as much English as possible and always speaks very clear Japanese to me. It’s rare that I even have to ask her to repeat herself. She will often ask me how to say things in English and, unlike pretty much every other student I have, she actually remembers about 90% of what I tell her. She has made amazing leaps in her language learning since I met her last year. She is the only kid that I teach who uses articles (the, an and a).
The Sweetest Little Girl has a soft voice and she never yells or uses an annoying accent. She smiles a lot and loves to play games. Usually when I see her, she will tell me a story about her family or friends, like what they did on the weekend or what they plan on doing soon. She tells me about her mom, what she had for dinner, her favorite books… pretty much anything that she views as important. She has this adorable manner about her, so no matter how mundane the subject, I find myself enthralled. When she does speak English her accent is surprisingly good despite the fact that she only gets an hour of class every two months (I asked her once, and no, she has no outside English classes).
When I first started teaching I tried to make a point to never touch the kids in any way so I could avoid misunderstandings. However, every time I had The Sweetest Little Girl in class she would always run up to me. I would greet her with a happy “hello!” (note: not “harro!”), but she would stop about three feet in front of me and just smile. I found out later that she asked her teacher if I didn’t like her.
“Why wouldn’t I like her?” I asked the teacher.
“Because you don’t give her a hug.” She replied.
The next class when The Sweetest Girl made a beeline for me I ducked down and sure enough, she ran right into my arms and gave me a great big hug. I embraced her back and after that class began. I have to admit I felt pretty happy for the rest of the week.
The Sweetest Little Girl Ever always makes my day brighter every time I see her. When I have kids one day, especially if I have a daughter, I want them to be exactly like The Sweetest Girl Ever. I want them to be gentle, inquisitive and respectful just like she is. I would even hope that my daughter looks a little like her, because she is just as cute as a button. I know that once I go home I won’t see her again until she is on TV for curing cancer or something. I know she will grow up and do great things.
It’s very strange. Even though the ratio of good to bad kids is so terribly stacked in the bad column’s favor, this one kid has made my time working here worthwhile. After teaching The Sweetest Girl, I understand what they mean when they say “if I can reach just one kid, then it was all worth it”. Because I did… and it was.
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