EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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The Golden Egg5 said:
I just wanted to update y’all on my hatch.
5/5 hatched and they are doing well. They are super cute!
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Fantastic job!
Farmer Connie said:
Vote for your favorite Canadian Chick..

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B!! Definitely B. C'mon, how can you not love penguin cheeks?
 
Farmer Connie said:
Perhaps just slightly biased on your decision?:rolleyes::gig
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Why would I be?
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Wickedchicken6 said:
Somewhat, but we speak of the younger generations like they are the problem. They're not. We are the problem. The parents/grandparents/friends who didn't raise the younger generations to be adults and be confident in themselves. We raised them to be children who were problems/in the way so the kids were provided with tools to keep them quiet while the parents worked and indulged and made money for the material items that are "supposed" to bring forth all this happiness everyone speaks of instead of spending quality family and one-on-one time with them, listening to them and teaching them the important things they need to know to function as an adult.

I'm fortunate that most of the young individuals the boy hangs with have not been raised like that. They already have jobs, they pay their own way, they have responsibility and best yet...they can already think for themselves and believe in themselves without their parents. Very standup young adults.

There are those kids as he mentions. However I feel that parents and adults, in general, have forgotten that kids are people too. The children haven't been included in discussion and it appears that they've been excluded in general by adults.

I cannot believe how surprised kids look to be addressed by their name and as a person when I greet them with a smile on route. It's like they've never been included in anything. In a two week time period, with simple politeness, I've gotten entire busloads of students to greet me with a smile and good morning pleasantries, use good manners and leave from the bus after school with a friendly goodbye and well wishes. Their entire confidence and demeanor change substantially with those few basic kindnesses.
Be the change you wish to see. :)
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I have always tried to instill responsibility in my children. They help me in the garden and with chicken/duck/turkey chores and everyone has daily house chores.
Our schools started putting everything on ipads when my son was 6th grade, he is now a sophomore. I had always restricted the time my kids spent in front of a screen, be it tv or phone or tablet. Now they were required to spend almost all day in front of one and homework can't be done without internet. I personally am not impressed.
Some may tell me that it's my responsibility to police the kids time..... that would be fine if they gave me the authority to remove the devices. I was informed in nov that the school would not keep the ipads over night and give them back the following morning and that if I didn't alow my kids to use them that they would fail their classes.
As with any tool it can be used for good or evil...... and a conection to the world wide web can link kids to things that they should not see, combine unlimited access and a curious mind and sometimes negative results come about. It is difficult to enforce rules when the parents are not alowed take away the electronics that kids can be doing "homework" on for hours on end. Some will say that I need to check the history on these devices.... yeah that sounds reasonable, the children all have a lock code on the devices so no one can get in. It becomes time consuming to take each device every night have the kid unlock it and go back thru all the history to see where they have been, not to mention I am not well versed in Ipad.....and some sites require a sign in to reaccess.
Maybe I am just old fashioned for being 35 and would have fit better in a different time ......
I do think that it's important to keep up with the times. But when the school makes it impossible for parents to monitor or take action about things that happen on the schools device it becomes discouraging. We did end up spending around $200 to update our router so that we have some ability to monitor the activity and block inappropriate sites, it also allows us to shut the kids internet off at night and limit the amount of time they spend online per day. We also had to update our Internet service to keep up.... but the kids could still log on at any McDonald's or Wendy's that has free WiFi and have access to anything out there.
Sorry for the long rant.... it's very frustrating.
 

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