Punishment for Decadence

When parents need to punish their kids, the phrase “Hurts me more than it hurts you” gets bandied about.  Tonight, I believe it.

We warned miniBlood about his attitude yesterday.  Each day, the kids in his class have their behavior ranked by color, green being the best and red meaning a trip to the principal’s office.  In order for mini to play in his baseball game tonight, he was required to have a green day.  We normally don’t impose any restrictions like this, but yesterday was a bad day for him with respect to listening to his parents.  Today, he came home with a yellow day.  And I’m real bummed because I love taking my kid to his games and watching him play.

I know the lesson learned through punishment is more important in the larger scheme of things, but I’ll be damned at how disappointed I am right now.  I’ll even get to the G-Vegas home game on time because of it, but that’s not even a minor bit of consolation.  At least he was honest.  He could have lied about what color he got, but he didn’t.  Still….

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Any of you readers ever play poker at Turning Stone casino in NY?  I’ll be back up to Schenecta-hole in late June for a few days and will probably extend my trip by a day to check out the poker action if it’s worth it.  It looks like it’s only about a 2 hour drive away, definitely within striking distance.  If you’ve been, feel free to leave comments about the place and your impressions.

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Big, long weekend coming up.  Apparently, there may be poker.  But also, I’m hoping to check out the new X-Men film.  How is that poker related?  Well duh.  Famke.  I think that says it all.