How to stop my brother from crying...

Pizzagirl
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:53:29 +0000

Most crying is tantrums. It is natural to cry when experiencing severe pain or loss of friend / relative, both of which are relatively rare events in one’s life. Other than that, one needs to learn to control emotions, to learn that crying is not solving anything, it creates another layer of problems.



Wow. Just wow. Frightening. Crying is clearly this little boy’s call for help, caught in a culture where 5th graders “should” be taking online pre-calculus courses instead of riding bikes and putting frogs down girls’ shirts.

Does this course make him happy? If no, it should stop. Immediately. End of subject. How good he is, how smart he is, how much it improves his chances to stay out of a bottom-feeder school like BC (I’m being SARCASTIC, obviously), how much it pleases the parents is immaterial. A fifth grader in pre-calculus is ridiculous. What’s the rush?