{"id":1651,"date":"2008-04-16T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2008-04-16T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T19:22:38","slug":"why-i-havent-been-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Why I haven&#8217;t been talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because when I open my mouth, I complain. I bitch. I burst into tears.<\/p>\n<p>When I start typing my fingers get angry and I start to curse like a drunken sailor.<\/p>\n<p>When I am awake I am pissed and gazing turns into glaring.<\/p>\n<p>When everyone in the room is out to get me and drive me mad.<\/p>\n<p>I read something today that pretty much sums up 85% of my mood:<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\"><span id=\"ctl00_cpMain_BulletinRead_ltl_body\">Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.<\/span><\/font> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Am I wrong?<\/p>\n<p>For those of you with small children or &#8216;tweens&#8217;.  This is my advice to you:<br \/>\n1. If you&#8217;re not friends with your parents, MAKE UP NOW, because when those little bastards turn 14 you&#8217;re going to want to send them to live with your parents. Start kissing major ass now, you&#8217;ll want their help.<\/p>\n<p>2. Start digging a bigggggg ass hole somewhere below your house, one that no one knows about. In this big hole, install television, running water, plumbing and a fridge.  No, you will not send your children to live there, YOU WILL LIVE THERE! You will go to this happy place that has a lock and all the stuff you don&#8217;t want your kids to remove from your room.  Do not tell the children about this room.  If you&#8217;re not in home, you&#8217;re not home. They don&#8217;t need to know where you are.  Hell, tell them you&#8217;re at the casino. It works for me.  I just go drive around the corner, sit in my car and cry. The poor officer that use to come to make sure I hadn&#8217;t broke down just brings me coffee, chocolate and more cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>3. They don&#8217;t flunk kids anymore. Nope. they give them &#8216;NM&#8217; no marks. Because how do you become a California Distinguished school if you have failing kids.  It looks better than an F.  By the time YOUR kids are grown up they won&#8217;t have grades, they will have colors to represent what &#8216;grade&#8217; they have&#8230;or maybe just symbols of fruits. Who knows, but God forbid they don&#8217;t get the funding they need (and they need it) if a student is FLUNKING.  Do they even use that word anymore? I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s politically correct.  &#8220;OMG, my child has FOUR ORANGES!&#8221;  what the hell????<\/p>\n<p>4. Don&#8217;t get your kids thinking that if they don&#8217;t listen you can take it away. That doesn&#8217;t work. You lose the &#8216;cool mom&#8217; status to the &#8216;omg, your mother is raging bitch&#8217; status.  Of course, it&#8217;s the parents fault. OF COURSE it&#8217;s my fault, I didn&#8217;t do my kids homework for them last night AND HAND IT IN FOR THEM.<\/p>\n<p>5.  Do you want me to go on with my angry fingers typing?<\/p>\n<p>So, now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I am going to go nail some jelly to a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because when I open my mouth, I complain. I bitch. I burst into tears. When I start typing my fingers get angry and I start to curse like a drunken sailor. When I am awake I am pissed and gazing turns into glaring. When everyone in the room is out to get me and drive me mad. I read something today that pretty much sums up 85% of my mood: Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree. Am I wrong? For those of you with small children or &#8216;tweens&#8217;. This is my advice to you: 1. If you&#8217;re not friends with your parents, MAKE UP NOW, because when those little bastards turn 14 you&#8217;re going to want to send them to live with your parents. Start kissing major ass now, you&#8217;ll want their help. 2. Start digging a bigggggg ass hole somewhere below your house, one that no one knows about. In this big hole, install television, running water, plumbing and a fridge. No, you will not send your children to live there, YOU WILL LIVE THERE! You will go to this happy place that has a lock and all the stuff you don&#8217;t want your kids to remove from your room. Do not tell the children about this room. If you&#8217;re not in home, you&#8217;re not home. They don&#8217;t need to know where you are. Hell, tell them you&#8217;re at the casino. It works for me. I just go drive around the corner, sit in my car and cry. The poor officer that use to come to make sure I hadn&#8217;t broke down just brings me coffee, chocolate and more cigarettes. 3. They don&#8217;t flunk kids anymore. Nope. they give them &#8216;NM&#8217; no marks. Because how do you become a California Distinguished school if you have failing kids. It looks better than an F. By the time YOUR kids are grown up they won&#8217;t have grades, they will have colors to represent what &#8216;grade&#8217; they have&#8230;or maybe just symbols of fruits. Who knows, but God forbid they don&#8217;t get the funding they need (and they need it) if a student is FLUNKING. Do they even use that word anymore? I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s politically correct. &#8220;OMG, my child has FOUR ORANGES!&#8221; what the hell???? 4. Don&#8217;t get your kids thinking that if they don&#8217;t listen you can take it away. That doesn&#8217;t work. You lose the &#8216;cool mom&#8217; status to the &#8216;omg, your mother is raging bitch&#8217; status. Of course, it&#8217;s the parents fault. OF COURSE it&#8217;s my fault, I didn&#8217;t do my kids homework for them last night AND HAND IT IN FOR THEM. 5. Do you want me to go on with my angry fingers typing? So, now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I am going to go nail some jelly to a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}