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[Crankin]

Oak, I can't really correlate the onset of allergies with riding or other outside stuff. It just makes it worse! It always starts with me waking up feeling like I've just been run over. I have a long history of this, it's just running in shorter cycles since the end of the summer.
I'll be honest, I don't think I can go out with a mask, Ebola has nothing to do with it!
I have to go to work, it's my day to go the high school. How did I ever go to work at 6:30 AM for 30 years?????

[shootingstar]

I don't doubt that this is a group that it's much more challenging to be a teacher for. I could never be one, I find it challenging enough to be a parent. But all in all I'm very impressed by teenagers today.

Agree. But probably a mixed bag of stuff.
What is very disturbing is some strange/violent/inappropriate Internet information which children can access far more easily than we ever could in the non-Internet world. That alone can make parenting harder in terms of external influences.

By the way, I've just signed for a pilot course that our organization is offering on working with millenials in the workplace. I'm curious how they plan to handle the course content..! To me, it's just nearly as awkward as a course on working in a diverse cross-cultural workplace (another course which I didn't sign up). They are pilot..for obvious reasons: tendency to pigeonhole people in certain groups according to perceived behaviours, etc.



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[PamNY]

Fellow cyclists on a bike ride today:

"You doing halloween candy this year?"

"Nope. Don't have any to give out. I ate it all."

And he was serious!

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Maybe you had to be there, but that was funny.

Sounds like my kind of guy.

[rebeccaC]

Skittles???????

now if I'm going to eat it all before.....a tin of La Maison du Chocolat Tobago's ….individually wrapped squares of milk and dark chocolate.

[Pax]

Drooooool!

[OakLeaf]

He obviously didn't buy enough candy to begin with!

When I lived in town, a few churches bussed the rural kids into our neighborhood for trick-or-treat. It was a working poor neighborhood where they knew people would be generous. We'd go through 20 bags of candy and have to turn our porch light off before trick-or-treat hours ended!

I can totally eat a movie-sized bag of Skittles before the closing credits roll....

[Catrin]

Crankin - I hope you can find a resolution to your problem, that would be quite frustrating! Have you added anything new to your diet since summer, or perhaps changed the frequency of something you used to only eat occasionally? I've noted that food sensitivities can present in rather unexpected ways that may not appear to be food-related at all. Wishing you the best on figuring this out.

Looking back to my own teenage years - the only way that I can see that things have changed for the current teens is their over-exposure to social media and highly inappropriate internet content exposure. To be fair, I was a wild child that couldn't stay out of trouble with the juvenile authorities - so my perspective might differ from some. All of that being said, it WAS the early 70's when I got their attention and frankly, back then, the behaviors that got us in trouble were far milder than the kind of trouble teens get into these days. Sadly there are all of those bad examples in social media and the internet to give them ideas

Oakleaf, it sounds like those rural kids had fun! I've lived in apartments for years now, and there isn't any trick-or-treating there. At least not in anywhere I've lived, though there may have been something at the clubhouse if there was on.