last one to send off to school !

I can't believe this is the last time I will be sending one of my kids off to school. Steven will be a senior at mt. view this year and I'm feeling a little sentimental today. he starts to school monday and he said he can't wait to go back. i couldn't believe it for once i'm excited too!

steven will be playing football this year, this was when he was 4!

my mom sent me this a few weeks ago,i loved it!

love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! to anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.

BILL GATES recently gave a speech at a high school about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. he talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

rule 1: life is not fair--get used to it!

rule 2: the world won't care about your self-esteem. the world will expect you to accomplish

something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

rule3: you will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. you won't be a vice-pres.

until you earn it.

rule 4: if you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

rule 5: flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. your grandparents had a different word for

flipping: they called it opportunity.

rule 6: if you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn

from them.

rule 7: before you were born, your parents werent asboring as they are now. they got that way

from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you

thought you were. so before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's

generation ,try delousing the closet in your own room.

rule 8: your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. in some

schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you

want to get the right answer. this dosen't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING

in real life.

rule 9:life is not divided into semesters. you don't get summers off and very few employers are

interested in helping you find YOURSELF. do that on your own time.

rule10:television is NOT reallife. in real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop & go

to jobs.

rule 11:be nice to nerds. chances are you'll end up working for one.

if you agree, pass it on.

if you can read this-thank a teacher!