tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843479.post6165649531409719131..comments2023-09-11T01:59:23.810-07:00Comments on Sierra Highlands: Friday is for FootballWillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17374272000644968446noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843479.post-12156473688879759652008-10-20T17:55:00.000-07:002008-10-20T17:55:00.000-07:00I was going to say that I think the egg thing has ...I was going to say that I think the egg thing has been around for a while and that it is based on the (misguided?) notion that girls get pregnant because they think babies are easy. But a previous commentor hit that nail and indicated the classist (and no doubt racist) garbage that goes along with it. I suspect that there are lots of reasons that girls get pregnant not least of which is plain old accident (including lack of knowledge of how to prevent such, lack of confidence to get a guy to use a condom, lack of self esteem and thus thinking sex is a way to feel loved, etc.etc). And some teenaged moms know exactly what they are getting themselves into and do a reasonable job considering the lack of support and general bs that they have to put up with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843479.post-35512104817309499432008-10-20T08:13:00.000-07:002008-10-20T08:13:00.000-07:00Sean thought the animatronic baby doll idea was po...Sean thought the animatronic baby doll idea was positively evil ;-). I hadn't thought of it that way, but I could see what he meant. There's also a bit of elitism in targeting the baby to the less academic students.Willahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17374272000644968446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843479.post-60029897501937479342008-10-18T10:53:00.000-07:002008-10-18T10:53:00.000-07:00I remember doing th egg thing! I also remember thi...I remember doing th egg thing! I also remember thinking it was pointless.<BR/><BR/>At my high school they bought an expensive animatronic baby doll called Baby Think It Over, for the same purpose as the eggs- it felt more or less like a newborn, looked more or less like a newborn, and was computerized. Students had to take it home, and when it cried, hold it and insert different keys to simulate feeding and changing. It recorded length of time let cry, length of time held, and any rough behaviour.<BR/><BR/>It could be set (by the teacher) anywhere from Nice Quiet Baby up to Very Loud Baby, depending on what the teacher thought necessary. It was used primarily in classes taken by the less academically inclined, less intelligent students. <BR/><BR/>According to a teacher I had who taught the home ec/homemaking skills courses, the doll was dialed up to Hellish Child for the fourteen and fifteen-year-old girls who thought that having a baby was just like having a doll that would love you back. She said it seemed to sober them.Geoff Busbridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041186309851403667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15843479.post-81129121150293039272008-10-18T05:08:00.000-07:002008-10-18T05:08:00.000-07:00I bet he is loving football! It sounds like coming...I bet he is loving football! It sounds like coming home from school provides a little culture shock. *LOL*<BR/><BR/>http://momofmonkeys.wordpress.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com