I got to play security for a John Michael Montgomery concert recently. Not a fan of the music, but I did get to search bags, confiscate beer people were trying to bring in, and “dispose” of it. The job got more fun as the night went on…
@carpoolingma: How was Axle? In good voice?
Going to Bruce Springsteen Thursday and plan to sing my heart out after all the pre drop off tears (first 9th grader…). I had cried so much before that the actual drop off today did not seem so bad…
@SevenDad Yep. It was a great concert (and I am not the biggest fan!)
I need a 12 step program to stop refreshing facebook, instagram, Flickr and the school website.
Who uses bribery for grades? I am being relentlessly bugged for the most current video game console. (when he’s only home like 3 months a year? Why?) We made a deal. 4.0, and Santa will bring one. I want to see how bad he wants it…last year he had like a 3.88 or something, so I wouldn’t think it would be that hard…
Mine is asking to take his PS4 to school with him. I think I’ll try your trick and tell him if he bring home a 4.0 then we can discuss it.
I told mine that if his grades slip, the gaming desktop PC which he built and took to school is coming home mid year.
We are into bribery & blackmail =))
Bribery & blackmail works. It’s called encouraging.
But how much video game do kids play at boarding schools? I have been hoping that dd would stop playing FTL when the school starts because she would be too busy.
@SculptorDad First few months at boarding school as a freshman, DS did not play games at all. He was busy with activities, homework and mandatory study hall without electronics. He also had a Macbook Air that was not useful for games. He binge played during breaks at home. At some point, he installed Windows on the Mac Air and tried some games in a painfully slow mode.
Really addictive ones are browser based MMO games that can run anywhere. I wouldn’t mind occasional playing of shooting games. DD’s schedule seems tight. I will hope for the best. 
DD uses Microsoft Surface Pro as she believes that it is the only affordable platform with decent enough touch screen for her digital art. Fortunately it can never be a good gaming machine either.
NOW I can say I have found my people! Bribery, blackmail and threats in general have always worked for AppleKid. I have said that if Netflicks, YouTube, gaming get crazy, I am jumping on a plane to switch out the new computer with the 3-line screen radio shack word processor I used in grad school!
“I have said that if Netflicks, YouTube, gaming get crazy” But how will you know? 
Or is it all good if the grades are good?
Good point @doschicos --we really don’t care as long as grades are good and no disciplinary action is taken 
“I have said that if Netflicks, YouTube, gaming get crazy” But how will you know?
-> Netflicks family account lets me monitor what she watches. Although, she will make it impossible once I used the knowledge against her.
Not to be pedantic, but once is a typo, 3 times calls for a correction. It’s Netflix.
Speaking of Netflix…I generally don’t “binge-watch” anything, but I cranked through Stranger Things over the holiday weekend, finishing with the finale last night. Great show…though I’d argue that Winona Ryder may be weakest link. I do love her (once saw her in person loading shopping bags in to a Town Car at Barney’s…I guess pre-shoplifting days) but felt she overplayed many of her scenes in the series…even considering that she played a mom in crisis.
Does anyone else do this, or is it just me (due to too much influence from my son and husband). I’m sitting in a boring seminar, and the speaker just mentioned that he “slammed an extra strength 5 hour energy” and I almost blurted out “invented by however you spell his name, Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania.” I quickly realized that no one here would appreciate that comment so I kept my mouth shut. Do YOU feel the need , even in just your own family, to point out famous/known alums from your school?
@SevenDad We also finished the season 1 finale this week. I agree with your assessment. I also think they did a fabulous job recreating my childhood…I mean the 80s. I’m looking forward to season 2!
@gusmom2000: Since SAS grad Maggie Rogers has a song currently in rotation on Sirius XM “The Spectrum” channel, I have a lot of occasion to do this lately…which often takes the form of me taking a phone-cam shot of the screen and sending to my family.
@carpoolingma: One glitch I caught was that they had the wrong size front chainrings on the “vintage” BMX bikes the kids rode. Back in the day, the convention was a 44T front chainring…not the “micro drive” they use these days (which at least one of the bikes had). I was surprised…since so much of the show is pitch perfect when it comes to period details.