General consensus has it right. Although I don't have a daughter, and my only son is 5, I do have experience via my sister who was... difficult.
If you get too hard-line, you're just going to encourage more rebellion. Deleting names from her phon...
My old friend, Gene Mitchel just joined AoM and offered the following quote from himself. It's great!
"Thoughts are tiny things
That flutter about the
Vast
Empty
Spaces of my mind
Like Swarms of inebriated
Butterflies
In a field of fermented flow...
Two other projects maybe some of you can advise me on...
1. Replacing hollow core doors with solid doors. Any chance I can just bolt em up and they will fit? lol
2. Painting the house. Do it in the Fall, or wait till Spring?
Two other projects maybe some of you can advise me on...
1. Replacing hollow core doors with solid doors. Any chance I can just bolt em up and they will fit? lol
2. Painting the house. Do it in the Fall, or wait till Spring?
Two other projects maybe some of you can advise me on...
1. Replacing hollow core doors with solid doors. Any chance I can just bolt em up and they will fit? lol
2. Painting the house. Do it in the Fall, or wait till Spring?
I have a similar list, but from memory:
1. Clean out and organize garage; install shelving
2. Stain balcony
3. Reseed and fertilize lawn
4. New blinds for living room
5. Hang a couple of pictures
Paint the upstairs (an extra couple of layers between us and the lead paint is much desired)
Refinish the hardwood floors (they're the originals from 1930...pretty beat)
Paint the rusted fence (it'll only buy time).
Make a bookcase so we can get s...
Current projects:
1. Bathroom flooring in the kids bathroom - Replaced sub-floor, covered with Hardyboard, planning the tile now.
2. Reorganizing the garage and my work bench.
3. Landscaping - Endless task...
4. Reconditioning a pull cart for ...
Recently I went through my home, inside and out, making a list of potential projects and things I wanted to fix, change, update, etc... Some items are big, some are small, some are cheap and others expensive.
I add things as they come to mind and...
If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself, the old adage goes. That may not always be true, but if you love a good project, this is your place to be!
My thoughts and feelings about college are similar. For most, it is not about learning, but about time and money.
Anyone with time and money can get a degree, assuming:
1. They are literate
2. They do their assignments as instructed.
I always fe...