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    Um, no.  That's just still a baby to me.  That gives me the willies just thinking about it.

    My father went to a military academy for high school.  His mother and grandfather did it to straighten him out.  (He was sort of a troubled youth).  I think it may have done more harm than good... lots a fazing by upperclassmen, etc.  I hope that stuff doesn't go on anymore.  

    We live in a culture that's pretty involved in their childrens' schools... even more so than my mother's generation.  So, culturally yes it's hard to understand someone sending a 3 year old to boarding school.

    Hey Gigi... I saw in yesterday's paper that you will be getting invaded by cicadas this summer.  Did you ever get those in CA?  Fun stuff!

    Mom to Grant, 8 and Madeline, 5 1/2

    by 1plain1peanut on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 06:14:31 AM PDT

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      No, none in CA. The first year we lived here we had a pretty big invasion and DD wouldn't go outside because it was too loud! LOL. We were visiting Kentucky the year they had the big Brood X or whatever...those suckers were HUGE. If I knew how to post a picture I would because they are impressive.

      LOVE the new signature line, Hilary!!!

      Mom of two - Sally (4-02) and Sam (8-04). Sam has a central I.V. line & a g-tube.

      by GiGi on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 08:23:15 AM PDT

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        with red eyes kind of freaks me out.

        We had them just north of here 3 summers ago.  They were buzzing all over the place during the Jack Nicklaus Memorial Golf Tournament.  Noisy little buggers.

        Mom to Grant, 8 and Madeline, 5 1/2

        by 1plain1peanut on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:50:08 PM PDT

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    • We have 'em in CA, (0 / 0)

      but not those big hatches like in the midwest. If I remember right, from reading, the Greeks thought that their singing was romantic, sort of an aphrodisiac.

      by tarantula on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 01:35:15 PM PDT

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        I grew up in a suburb of L.A. and lived in San Diego and don't recall cicadas...

        It is funny to listen to them because really, all the ruckus they are making is about getting it on! They do it and then die. Crazy.

        Mom of two - Sally (4-02) and Sam (8-04). Sam has a central I.V. line & a g-tube.

        by GiGi on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 01:51:36 PM PDT

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        • They're in the Sierra, for sure. (0 / 0)

          I caught a few for some bug studies around Lake Tahoe, and then we get them around the house in the foothills, here in Three Rivers. They look like aliens. Insect reproduction is crazy!

          by tarantula on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 02:53:04 PM PDT

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      not many in the city, but we went to a zoo in the suburbs and it was impossible to hear yourself think, they were so loud!  

      They were really everywhere, landing on you at all times, and it was kind of fun to walk around the zoo and watch kids (mostly pre-teen girls) go into some sort of panic dance whenever one got near them.  From a distance looked like a wildly virulent insanity.  

      --R

      by Rocky on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 05:37:19 PM PDT

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        Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.  

        Kindergarten field trip.  

        Cicadas everywhere... lots of screaming 5 and 6 year olds.  That's basically what I remember about the whole trip.  Cicadas landing in girls' hair with yarn bows... and teachers trying to pry the bugs out of the yarn LOL.  

        Mom to Grant, 8 and Madeline, 5 1/2

        by 1plain1peanut on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 05:40:49 PM PDT

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          Company event at Brookfield Zoo.  Couldn't hear the presentations because of the roar of the cicadas (and I didn't really need to hear them anyway, lol!)  After a morning of speakers families joined us and the chaos really began!

          --R

          by Rocky on Thu May 01, 2008 at 06:51:30 AM PDT

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