that makes them complete their child's homework projects FOR THEM

WTF is up with that!

I've just fallen victim and built my kid a Hummer out of cardboard

fuck, that's impressive. i would expect the Master to be the dab hand in the family at constructing vehicles out of cardboard.

whistle said:

you know 3 weeks ago I told him I would be leaving that project in his hands, told him the date it needed to be completed, gave him a full day to do it (last Monday) and after asking him when it was going to happen on that day and he nominated 5pm, he got as far as starting to paint a cardboard box white. Since then he has been too busy.

He leaves all that creative craft shit to me he is useless compared to all the other dads you should see the cars they've been bringing in to school each morning!!!

It cracks me up when parents argue the kids' grades, because they are insulted that THEIR work didn't get a high grade!
BTW- we know that the kids didn't do them, when 1/2 of them can't even hold a crayon properly in class, but come in with these incredible masterpieces done at home.

chocolate1 said:

yeah, apart from this car thing, which the kids weren't expected to do, I make the kids do EVERYTHING themselves

You've fighting a losing battle anyway..if the teachers dont like you your stuffed.

When doing my art exam in my school days something very 'mysterious' happened. My in-class pieces were never that good because of time frames but, allowed to spend hours on something, I could really come into my own. When I produced a life like sculpture of an old boot (don't ask) the teacher wasn't sure I'd had done it...and mysteriously it got smashed overnight in a locked classroom and could therefore not be graded.
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purpledoveuk said:

bastards!!!!
that's like Dave1992 not winning that language contest because people didn't believe he wasn't a native speaker

ZombieKitten said:

chocolate1 said:

he did do most of the painting himself on the car actually, so I don't feel all that bad

but yeah, a 5 year old doesn't care that much until he sees on the day what all the other kids have

When my daughter was 3, her pre-school had an Easter bonnet competition. All the kids were given those cardboard sick-bowls you get at the hospital and were told to decorate them for Easter.

I gave her some things to stick on, some paint and glitter and glue etc and let her get on with it (with a little bit of supervision).
She proudly took it to pre-school a few days later only to find that 90% of the other kids had obviously had a huge amount of help from parents. Some of them were amazing. Cody didn't mind at all but it did look pretty shit compared to most of the other ones

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah,and after all the hardworking my mum and dad put into it too

florescent said:

my kid made his own

ZombieKitten said:

Cute!
Cody's wasn't that good - but it did have feathers and silver foil!
I didn't take a picture of it, but i'm sure it had big blobs of glue on it that hadn't dried properly. And it didn't help that it was effectively a glittery sick-bowl

chocolate1 said:

ZombieKitten said:

EXCELLENT!

Thank you!!! the competition was steep!!!!

ZombieKitten said:

That is so cool!

thank you!

purplehippieonthe1 said:

Wait a second...that's too good - were your parents helping you to help him?

purpledoveuk said:

omg how dare you insinuate my mummy made it for me




other kids had racing cars and BMWs

ZombieKitten said:

Very Nice!