By the time I got to high school, it was the late 90's and we had the dolls with the battery to take home. Did any of you have to take an egg home and raise it for home economics/family studies? What was it like and did you need to do the project with a partner? Any close calls in almost breaking it or other interesting stories?

I didn't know they still had Home Ec classes in the 90's, that's awesome!

I attended public school in jr. high, and had Home Ec. Back then we also had "Shop" & it was big fun. Unfortunately we never had the egg baby project. But we did learn how to cook three dishes, sew an outfit, make a budget for a family of 4 based on what jobs we aspired to, and design the interior of a house

Well where I live, the course selection is different now from what it was 10 year ago. We had family studies in junior high as well as shop, and at the high school I went to, we had various optional course to choose from like parenting, nutrition, social studies, families in society family economics and so forth (can't remember the exact names). I went with parenting though I don't think I want to be one, though back then it was something I blindly did want, or at least to work with kids though it's not for me right now.

Anyways my baby went everywhere and the family dynamics around me really changed and I felt like I had to choose between them and the baby. And we had guests staying with us then so one time when the baby started crying, they didn't know that I had a way to shush them up, so they were hitting the poor thing cause I wouldn't wake up and it showed up in the battery I was SO mad when I found out and the abuse showed up in the battery

oh good lord no! I went to catholic high school..

I did! Well sort of. It was my 11th grade year and I was in health class. I understood all the material but I choose to not do anything. I said nothing, other than an occasional joke or off color remark. I had a very low grade!

Well the time came for the egg baby project. And I used an assortment of paints to very careful paint my baby egg. And I brought it to class on the first day and when the teacher saw it, she started to cry. I had finally done something! She was getting tough to me! She was beaming!

But then I got... snacky. And well I ate the baby! She was furious! I still feel bad.

Yes. It was a disaster.

I was paired up with this "burnout" kid... (80s )

I got the flu, so he had to care for the egg until I came back to school.

When I got back, he had drawn a mohawk and beard & moustache on our egg baby!

I don't even remember exactly what we got, but it wasn't that good of a grade.

tinaz said:

oh good lord no! I went to catholic high school..

Me too! And it was all girl at the time. I knooow they didn't want to give us any ideas.

Especially yours truly. Oh ho ho ho.

The point of the project, especially with the doll now, is to teach girls about giving parenting a second thought at a young age in order to decrease teenage pregnancies, or at least practice abstience. Those babies weighed a lot and didn't shut up when you wanted them to and disrupted sleep.

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alphastreet said:

The point of the project, especially with the doll now, is to teach girls about giving parenting a second thought at a young age in order to decrease teenage pregnancies, or at least practice abstience. Those babies weighed a lot and didn't shut up when you wanted them to and disrupted sleep.

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Nanny Zanny to the rescue!!

sadly the nanny zanny's were at the time were guests who hit the poor thing to shut it up cause I wouldn't wake up according to them, it woke up the whole house except me

We were partnered up with "spouses" to share the egg baby. My husband and I first couldn't decide whether it was a boy or a girl. I decided it was a girl. Then we argued about the name. I really liked the Little Mermaid and he really liked the Beatles so she was named Ariel Lennon. She survived.

^With a name like that, maybe she shouldn't have.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I did! Well sort of. It was my 11th grade year and I was in health class. I understood all the material but I choose to not do anything. I said nothing, other than an occasional joke or off color remark. I had a very low grade!

Well the time came for the egg baby project. And I used an assortment of paints to very careful paint my baby egg. And I brought it to class on the first day and when the teacher saw it, she started to cry. I had finally done something! She was getting tough to me! She was beaming!

But then I got... snacky. And well I ate the baby! She was furious! I still feel bad.

!!!

lazycrockett said:

^With a name like that, maybe she shouldn't have.

Beats Sebastian McCartney

alphastreet said:

lazycrockett said:

^With a name like that, maybe she shouldn't have.

Beats Sebastian McCartney

I didn't have to do the Egg Baby project because I did vol work 3 days a week, 3 hr shifts in a REAL Child Day Care Center ( for 2 school yrs )

I had to do the egg baby project twice. First time was when I was in the fifth grade,we had to care for the egg until the end of the year(which was 1-2 months at the time). The last day of school if you still had your egg intact,they had a contest where you could box up your egg,and then they would drop it off the roof of the school. If it did'nt break,you got an ice cream.

Second time was in 11th grade. I was'nt paired up with anyone,had to name the egg baby,and take care of it,and then at the end of the project you had to answer questions about your experience. The next year I noticed,people did'nt have eggs for the project,instead they got to pack around sacks of flour.

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Sounds like fun EmeraldSkies...great way to promote child abuse too mind you

We had to prepare a baby book after our doll and answer questions about infant care throughout and do some journalling.

We did the egg baby thing.

I was spouses with one of my dear friends, Pam. We managed (somehow) not to break it.

As "theatre freaks" we usually turned in very bizarre health/home ec projects. Last year I reunited with another dear HS friend and she gave me a dvd of a health project we turned in. We did a film on sexual deviance.

A manual egg-beater was involved.

I did. We threw them at cars from the bus window the first day.

My niece and nephew are in high school right now and they both did the Egg Baby thing in the last few years. So they're still doing this exercise some places.

Why would you do that?

alphastreet said:

Sounds like fun EmeraldSkies...great way to promote child abuse too mind you

We had to prepare a baby book after our doll and answer questions about infant care throughout and do some journalling.

johnart said:

We did the egg baby thing.

I was spouses with one of my dear friends, Pam. We managed (somehow) not to break it.

As "theatre freaks" we usually turned in very bizarre health/home ec projects. Last year I reunited with another dear HS friend and she gave me a dvd of a health project we turned in. We did a film on sexual deviance.

A manual egg-beater was involved.

johnart said:

We did the egg baby thing.

I was spouses with one of my dear friends, Pam. We managed (somehow) not to break it.

As "theatre freaks" we usually turned in very bizarre health/home ec projects. Last year I reunited with another dear HS friend and she gave me a dvd of a health project we turned in. We did a film on sexual deviance.

A manual egg-beater was involved.

Didn't they do that in Stripes? "Honey, it's legal now, we're married!"

No I never did this project in school.

But I would have been a great husband, and it might have saved a lot of those bitches some heartache to learn that early on!!!

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johnart said:

We did the egg baby thing.

I was spouses with one of my dear friends, Pam. We managed (somehow) not to break it.

As "theatre freaks" we usually turned in very bizarre health/home ec projects. Last year I reunited with another dear HS friend and she gave me a dvd of a health project we turned in. We did a film on sexual deviance.

A manual egg-beater was involved.

Egg Beater!? Child Abuse!

The only thing an egg beater should have been used for is whipping your spouse when it's time to get kinky Would have made for some interesting journalling eh?

NDRU said:

johnart said:

We did the egg baby thing.

I was spouses with one of my dear friends, Pam. We managed (somehow) not to break it.

As "theatre freaks" we usually turned in very bizarre health/home ec projects. Last year I reunited with another dear HS friend and she gave me a dvd of a health project we turned in. We did a film on sexual deviance.

A manual egg-beater was involved.

Didn't they do that in Stripes? "Honey, it's legal now, we're married!"

Did what? Something with an eggbeater?