Friday, December 9, 2005
I just reprimanded Alesia for putting her hand in a moving fan. I can’t believe she did that! I was standing in her room and she said I’m cold, so I reached up to turn the fan off, or at least down, and she grabbed the chain and pulled, then looked at it for a minute and stuck her hand up there. The blades had slowed considerably, but I was furious. I lost my temper and yelled at her. I have told her before to NEVER ever put your hands near a fan blade! Lord gussy that child is dense.
This morning we had another episode of Groucho Marx eyebrows, but I didn’t notice them until I stopped the car to drop her off at school. I told her tonight, if I ever see she’s drawn those brows on too dark, I will make her come inside and wash her face and wash off her eyebrows entirely. I’m kind of sorry I started the whole eyebrow drawing thing. She has the idea she should have dark heavy brows and they look bizarre.
After school she went to see the new Narnia Chronicles movie. I bought her The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. I hope she will get interested in C.S. Lewis. I loved those books as a kid.
I was in Alesia’s room earlier tonight while she was at her
friend’s house. I was looking for my scissors. She is always borrowing them and
not returning them, which ticks me off because I always say to her you MUST
return these to me, put them back on my desk. I found a paper just lying next
to her bed that said at the top Computer 2005, then “Hi my name is Alesia
Thompson….” Etc. etc. It read like a personal ad. At the end, she had put her
name and address and phone number.
After I picked her up from Elena’s house and we got home, I confronted her about the paper. She said she just likes to write things like that. She claimed the word computer referred to her handheld computer-like translation device I bought last year. She has access to the internet at school and at friend’s houses. I don’t think she can use my computer because I have a password. I told her she must never put her name, address, and phone number on the internet. We had the whole mess last spring with her putting all that information on the internet and us having to change to unlisted phone numbers. I said, “Alesia, it’s OK to have a pen pal, or a friend online, but there are bad men who act like girls online, then meet up with girls and kidnap them and hurt them. I don’t want that to happen to you.” She is so unsophisticated. I told her if she ever did anything like that she would be punished.
She is still coughing and I fear she is getting sick, even though she was better this morning. I told her we were going to have a quiet weekend. The only definite plan is to get started on her science experiment project that’s due in mid January. Her paper is on The Effects of Acid Rain on plants. I found several little experiments on the internet.
