Comments on: Tread Lightly When It Comes To Middle School

By: sick day « chino house

sick day « chino house — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:13:46 +0000

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By: all props to the single mamas… « chino house

all props to the single mamas… « chino house — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:35:31 +0000

[…] leave the building, a building for which I already retain absolutely NO good feelings, per my own horrific year there. At 10pm, Taido sends me a text message that he is on the side of the road somewhere in […]

By: Suzy Oakley

Suzy Oakley — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:53:37 +0000

we moved here from california just before i started fifth grade. i was painfully, awkwardly shy and had only one friend, a boy from church. the next year we bought a house and moved a few miles away. my new neighbor, a 10th-grade girl, teased me every single day on the bus. a 10th-grader picking on a 6th-grader (and i was a year younger than my classmates). she said really nasty things to me, pulled my hair, made me cry every day … my mother finally got the principal involved, but it didn’t really stop.

By: alison

alison — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:19:07 +0000

Ouch. So sorry about that Pete.

Thanks for all the response friends. I’m sure it was worth like a year of group therapy for me.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:25:16 +0000

My goal was to get past that room with the “holly hobbie” comforters before I broke down. And I always made it. Mean boys aren’t just mean to girls. Last-to-develop boys are in that category, too.

By: nd

nd — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:45:12 +0000

jason just introduced me to your blog and i’m so glad he did–this is right up my green livin’/outdoor lovin’/irreverent being/happy mothering alley. there’s hints of catherine newman (whom i adore) in your writing–i’ll even admit i had tears of laughter and sadness all scramble-egged up as i read. having these kids will just break your heart sometimes, won’t it?

and there’s something so tactful and refreshing about being able to write about how wonderful and funny and cute your children are without actually saying that. literally. know what i’m saying?

consider yourself bookmarked.

XXX

By: Holsted Fam

Holsted Fam — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:17:10 +0000

Laughing @ Taido “Nerdy Asians” They really did NOT get picked on At Sylvan Hills..Seriously, Anywho…I went from Catholic school until the 6th grade switching to SH…it was terrible…I tried to hide in the cracks of the lockers so no one could notice me. It’s all a passage of life.

By: bryan jones

bryan jones — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:40:09 +0000

speaking as a former MEAN boy, we can too remember their names…but just the first names.

if i could remember Claire’s last name, i would be totally fine with calling her up (or better yet – EMAIL!) and apologizing for – i don’t think there’s a way to say this without inviting disdain – daily whacking here in the shins with the side of my shoe as i walked by her desk and then timing how long it took for the bruise to appear.

she never complained to the teacher. NEVER. and now, thanks to Al, i understand why.

(ps last week, my daughter got busted in class for kicking a little dude in his shin as she walked past his desk. karma.)

By: Melany

Melany — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:40:23 +0000

I have one recurring dream….I dream it about 3-4 times a week. Still. And it’s me trying to remember my locker combination at our middle school in El Do. And I’m frantically trying to get my locker opened. So I’m late to class. And I can’t remember which class I”m supposed to be in. So I look for my schedule. And can’t find it. So I go to the office to get a new one. Again. I dream the exact thing over and over again. Crazy huh??

By: Taido

Taido — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:39:19 +0000

dearest, you seem to have struck a chord here.
i don’t know what you are all talking about. i loved seventh grade. every minute. nerdy asians at sylvan hills really thrived.