Comments on: Tonight

By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:43:36 +0000

My son just says school was “fine” or “horrible.” Because of his autism/Asperger’s, I really have to get clues from the teacher in an agenda book, to see what he did that day.

I do the same thing with my high school kids at school. I email parents with snippets of the kids’ day (They read this, or we did that. We talked about this) so they have a conversational jumping off point.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:57:39 +0000

All I get out of my girl is “School was good.” So it’s not just a Boy Thing. I have figured out to ask things like “who got in trouble today?” or “Are you still talking about lizards in science class?”

More specific questions tend to open them up a bit, I think.

As to the shoe thing: look for a peep toe heel in a feminine fabric — peau de soie or satin. A brushed black satin will look fa-boo with that dress and it won’t be too “heavy” looking.

Pair it with a black shawl and a cute handbag and you are one hottt mama.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:07:33 +0000

Re the dress/strappy shoes/”working” calves conundrum: knee high boots. Preferably patent leather.

By: dangitAnge

dangitAnge — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:13:41 +0000

If you’d like to be talked to death, I can loan you one of my girls.

Okay, this is gonna sound wierd and stalker like–but I dreamed you came to MOPS in a new dress. I don’t remember if it was read but it had a spinny twirly skirt and every time I saw you that morning, you were standing off to the side, twirling a bit side to side to make the very full skirt spin a bit. I don’t remember the rest of what was going on, other than we were at church and I kept passing by you and you were spinnin’ your new dress. ROTFL!

By: Meagan

Meagan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:54:52 +0000

I think most school aged boys aren’t all that talky about their lives. I’ve read that specific questions work better: what did you learn about in social studies? Did you do anything interesting with Nick and James? But I don’t know since I don’t have kids, and I’d guess those things could just as easily be answered with “nothing” and “no.”