Too Many Cooks...

Have you ever been in charge of something? If you are able to plan everything on your own and with no more than 1 other person, then get others to help bring it to success, it is great. But when either too many people or not enough people want to be in charge of to decisions there is always negativity or issues.

I think one of the problems is people who are given leadership roles but do not know how to lead...slackers are another issues...

Solution ? not sure.

Messy Houses

I think if you are going over to visit someone, they should pick up their house. Am I stuck up...my house is not the neatest...rarely do we have it spotless, but I DO make sure we pick up our things every other night and vaccum so it is not dirty. We have pets and that can add to the clutter and mess AND we have mail sitting around some...but I want someone to be able to walk into my house at any time and not be morified by the clutter, mess, or dirt and grim. To be honest, if you have children, they need to be responsible for their own items. It will teach them skills for later in life that will help them keep their own places and items neat or organized.

We have clutter...things get messy....but we always take time at least twice a week to pick up and keep it clean.

Kiss and Ride

Okay, I have never had to deal with a Kiss and Ride line at an elementary school because I take my girls to school with me. I never knew what parents did or had to deal with each day. The school where I teach is very careful about keeping students safe during arrival and dismissal...the problem is the parents who do not follow the rules. Instead of taking an extra 10 minutes to safely drop their child off at the sidewalk by the school and near staff members, they parking dangerously or illegally on the street right before the school and cross over two streets where cars and buses and pulling in and out of the school...there is no crossing guard and no crosswalk. It is a narrow neighborhood street with cars parked on both sides. If there rushy parents could take just a few minutes to go through the line or park 100 yards down the street in either direction, they could cross with a crossing guard and crosswalk.

In addition to these parents, others are doing u-turns and making illegal left turns out of the school parking lot causing traffic jams.

If a child is hit by a car, by no fault of anyone but their own parent...the school will be targeted. That is ridiculous.