The Goat Pen

Except the chemistry stuff you stole, that's yours now.

heh..oh yea...that shit is dope

meth lab in 3, 2, 1....

Tell your daughter working hard is not for her coach and not for you. Tell her working hard is for herself...and it's bigger than LAX.

Then buy her the book "Grit" by Angela Duckworth and force her to read it and discuss it with you. You read it, too.

Bklyn wrote:Tell your daughter working hard is not for her coach and not for you. Tell her working hard is for herself...and it's bigger than LAX.

Then buy her the book "Grit" by Angela Duckworth and force her to read it and discuss it with you. You read it, too.

you know I think I will try that. I'll check out that book

That book has influenced how I parent...and that advice is what I drill into my staff all the time.

Your insistence on not having her just give up is a big key, so you're halfway there. Many parents would not be self-aware enough to even try to figure out a good approach.

I bought the book about 10 minutes ago (on Amazon). I'm not a kindle guy although she is. I am more comfortable handing the book to her with a conversation about why than telling her to download it.

"Then buy her the book "Grit" by Angela Duckworth and force her to read it and discuss it with you."

This will get eCat back to his roots. Didn't you used to sell Grit (the newspaper) when you were a kid?

I know that grit means determination but the first thing I thought when I saw it in Brook's post (and most other times too) was redneck...

hedge wrote:"Then buy her the book "Grit" by Angela Duckworth and force her to read it and discuss it with you."

This will get eCat back to his roots. Didn't you used to sell Grit (the newspaper) when you were a kid?

LOL

no but my brother did.

that was a great country boy insult back in the day. A guy would show up with a lawn mower, metal detector, some gadget and we'd crack on him about how many Grit Magazines he had to sell to get it.

Grit was the biggest sham ever. There was virtually nothing worth reading in it. It propagated the idea that hard work was all you had to do to make it in this country. But the hard work was really enticing people to buy a product they didn't want or need merely because it supported their idea that hard work was beneficial. However, it was the hard work of the kids that was beneficial to the greedy owners of Grit, who just handed out cheap shit as prizes to the hardest workers.

In retropsect, it was a fabulous plan that cobbled together every aspect of American capitalism.

"Grit was the biggest sham ever. There was virtually nothing worth reading in it."

In fairness, the same could be said of the Wilson Daily Times...

Untrue. We publish pictures of felons 3x a week.

It's the print version of the police scanner for the country folk around here (which is to say nearly ever-bawdy)

Logan has taken to looking up the addresses of all the drug busts and then riding around in that area trying to cop. I saw the story on the guy busted for heroin earlier this week in the trailer park near the country club, even the cops were saying that the main issue with overdoses is that you don't know what you're getting. Legalization would make it much safer...

Saint wrote:Grit was the biggest sham ever. There was virtually nothing worth reading in it. It propagated the idea that hard work was all you had to do to make it in this country. But the hard work was really enticing people to buy a product they didn't want or need merely because it supported their idea that hard work was beneficial. However, it was the hard work of the kids that was beneficial to the greedy owners of Grit, who just handed out cheap shit as prizes to the hardest workers.

In retropsect, it was a fabulous plan that cobbled together every aspect of American capitalism.

It was bad. I couldn't even tell you what was in it.

I never went the grit route but I did take a stab and selling seeds door to door. I figured being out in the country that was my ticket to millions.

Dad ended up buying enough of them to get me a telescope.

I don't think anyone's selling bindles on the street corners of Wilson.

eCat wrote:I never went the grit route but I did take a stab and selling seeds door to door. I figured being out in the country that was my ticket to millions.

Dad ended up buying enough of them to get me a telescope.

Monsanto would have you jailed today.

Did you wear overalls and go barefoot to heighten the effect?

"I don't think anyone's selling bindles on the street corners of Wilson."

Certainly not to me, but I guess I can't blame some black dude in the hood being a little skittish when a middle aged white guy in a Grand Marquis pulls up asking about drugs...

Saint wrote:

eCat wrote:I never went the grit route but I did take a stab and selling seeds door to door. I figured being out in the country that was my ticket to millions.

Dad ended up buying enough of them to get me a telescope.

Monsanto would have you jailed today.

Did you wear overalls and go barefoot to heighten the effect?

You know from a function standpoint, overalls are very good. I tried to wear some about 4 years ago and felt like a damn fool.

I can't even wear painters paints anymore. I had a white pair of duckheads for at least 3 years of high school

Duckheads was kind of my comfort zone clothing wise as a teen.