Trouble in Paradise
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Re: Feeling ignored and pregnant
So you're going to send them into kindergarten unable to speak English? On purpose? That's.... awesome**.
**That is NOT actually awesome. In case you don't understand English sarcasm.
As a former ESL teacher, I strongly urge you to give the kids as much English exposure as possible, though I do think it's important that they also speak their native language. There is only so much we can teach them in the short amount of time that we have them, and it really does affect other academic areas. It's difficult to understand science and math, for example, if the concepts are in English. I cannot tell you how many times a student of mine seemed to be struggling with a concept, only to understand it completely once it was explained in Spanish.
If you insist on not speaking English at all yourself, at least have English books, magazines, and TV shows about. Even speaking English to them for a short time a day would help.
For some reason I'm reading her posts with a Russian accent.
Okay I wasn't gonna say anything buttttt...you live in AMERICA?? Teach yourself and your children to speak ENGLISH!!
This "press 1 for English" is bullcrap IMO.
Now I'm pissed.
Now you're pissed?
Out of everything in the op, this is the straw that broke the camel's back?
Ummm...so let me get this straight, you are pregnant and you go to clubs?
::shaking my head::
We're the Bitter B*tches Club. This was our weekly 'feeding frenzy day' in which we feast upon the egos of unsuspecting idiots. And it looks like dessert just walked in!
I am so sad that I missed all the action.
Please reveal yourself, OP. Standing O to you.
We're not on a blog, we're on a message board.
And anyone who refers to their child's father as a "babydaddy" and who mentions that said "babydaddy" has several other babymamas deserves criticism.
Oh no, real advice was given
But she continually opened herself up to criticism along with all that
OP: You're beating your head against a brick wall. Stop trying to make a man who doesn't care Care about his child. It will save you the undue stress and you'll still be out the child support
The baby mamas take their kids to the club?
Wait, there's no childcare in the clubs? No play areas? I thought all places were kid-friendly these days.
You're a dumbass and you're wrong.
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Just curious as to what exactly you don't agree with in the above statement? Because any early elementary teacher will tell you that students who come from non-English speaking homes DO struggle more with English than their peers who come from English-speaking families. These kids are the ones who end up in reading intervention programs and have to struggle to catch up to grade level.
HAHAHAHAHA.... This is the best post EVER!
I cannot believe that it took that long for someone to call MUD. Pregnant in the club? REALLY????
BEST POST EVER!
Seriously, this made my night.
OMG.....I CAN'T......I just.........
THIS........IS.........AWESOME!!!!!
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Dude - There is funny, and then there is taking it to the bad place.... annndddd....you just took it to the bad place. Way to spoil the fun, spoiler.
You know I love you, imoan. But I really want to throat punch you right now for participating in this bullshiit.
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Uhm, excuse me???????????
And I thought busting out Consuela was the lowest this post was going to go.
Who the hell are you?
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Okay, this drives me nuts as a former bilingual teacher. If you have broken English, please do NOT only speak English to your child. We had lots of kids whose parents employed this strategy and they were doubly screwed because they weren't learning their native language or English. Read to your child in your native language a LOT. If possible, teach them to read and write in their native language. Whenever possible, expose them to native English speakers--but in interactive settings, not just TV. The literacy skills your child gains in your native language will transfer to English, and studies show bilingual kids will catch up to or surpass their peers by about 4th grade (when in a bilingual program). It's the kids who don't know what reading is , how writing works, that letters represent sounds, the direction of a book, etc.when they start kindergarten who have the serious problems with learning to read--not kids who have these skills in their native language.
Probably not where you thought this post would go, but there it is.
I can't believe that this is going to be my first post on The Nest...but seriously I have to come out of lurkdom to say WTF? Was this a misguided attempt at humor? Because for you to be completely serious about what you just said leads me to believe that you're a fuuking idiot. And really if you were trying to be funny you're still a fuuking idiot.
Thank you baby jeebus! This exactly. ALL OF THIS!!
Also, bilingual children do have advantages in a variety of ways. However, studies show that the best way for a child to gain and keep fluency in both language is to speak the foreign language in the home nearly exclusively and to speak the common language outside of it.
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Yup all of this. I can speak and read fluent Spanish because it was kept in my home growing up. Double dog dare someone to make a racist comment about me.