Not exact matches
Husbands give this as a reason for divorcing their wife for another woman,
college kids use it as an explanation for taking drugs or
sleeping around, and businessmen use it to defend greed, lavish vacations, and shady corporate ethics.
And after the twins arrive, the real work begins: coordinating
sleep schedules, feeding two babies at the same time, buying 500 diapers a month while saving enough to send two
kids to
college in eighteen years, and maintaining your own sanity throughout.
no one tells you that the best parenting moment you will ever have isn't the day your
kid is born, or the day she
sleeps through the night, or the day you make the last
college payment, or the day you become a grandparent.
There were teachers at my school who turned on a tv then
slept at their desk, who showed up an hour or two late every day (meaning another busy adult had to watch or try to teach 30 extra
kids), who told the
kids they were «stupid» or «not
college material» (I heard a teacher describe a THIRD GRADER this way), etc..
We describe extremely successful
kids who took gap years before deciding what they wanted to do,
kids who chose to go to community
college or trade schools,
kids who chose not to over-enroll in AP or honors courses because they were sufficiently challenged and excited by other courses or teachers or activities and knew that they couldn't do it all and still get the
sleep they needed.
Having written a good non-fiction book that focuses on an aspect of city / urban planning (THAT will help you
sleep at night) I have always believed that it would make a great textbook or at least required reading — but for
college kids as noted above at over $ 40 for the hardcover it was cost prohibitive, I now have a way to repackage the ebook that is on Amazon (with 65 images) and try to create something more exciting and interesting.