I have a feeling that bowl started appearing recently after we discussed her small portions that you would expect to see in Oliver Twist
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Yes but she has only shown us Monday Tuesday and Wednesday we still have another four days in the week which in Ruby's world is four different routines
lol yeah it's a classic way to add volume to food without calories
(also that "turmeric latte" looks vile)
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With her level of Spanish the most she can manage are probably Spanish nursery rhymes. Or maybe by Spanish poetry she means the English translation with the Spanish original on the sideShe loves to read Spanish poetry!We keep learning fascinating new facts about Roobee through the ads she does.
lol if she thinks you're bullying her she'll send you a letter written on the back of a receipt that she found on the street to tell you to stop.
"Trust me on this one," said the compulsive liar with a proven history of being completely untrustworthy.
I have so many problems with this for two reasons. The first is being a bit naughty at three is normal. I have never met a three year old who doesn't at some point push their boundaries. You don't know how to NOT push boundaries until you DO. Secondly, the reaction of the teacher was (to me) perfectly normal. The sight of three three year olds about to jump out of a window would make me shout too out of fear and to regain control. Even at three, you as the adult have to assert authority. The fact of whether or not Ruby jumped out of the window is fuzzy so that probably means she didn't do it. The school would HAVE to tell her parents if she did that as a safeguarding issue and you can bet your bottom dollar, if she had jumped put of a window, her parents would remember it. The fact this teacher never came back is very odd to me. She was fired? For what, having a normal human reaction to children in danger? That's very very strange.
As I have said before, I am a pre-school teacher and this is so far off base, I'm legit amazed at this. Firstly, being in nursery at age three is quite usual as in the UK, children go to school the school year after their fourth birthday. Some unfortunate children who are born in September are only a few weeks away from five when they start so Ruby going to pre-school at three is not unusual at all.
The ethos of Early Years is to create an environment where learning through play is the norm. Ruby says she was only in nursery for three days before this happened so she was still settling in. Settling in is actually a vital part of the journey a child takes in pre-school. It is where a child learns the routines, what is expected of them and slowly gets to know people. If on the third day of pre-school, Ruby jumped out of a window and ran around with no thought of how an adult would react, I think that is indicative that Ruby had no boundaries as a very young child. She was centre of attention, apple of Mummy's eye, doing ballet, used to being filmed and followed around. Ruby is the star of the show. Ruby is in control. How typical.
So, then she goes on to say that this is the worst thing she's ever done and her mother told her the teacher was fired when she was seven. My question is why? Did she tell her just to tell her or was she telling her as a cautionary tale so Ruby would see how out of control she was and how she needed to stop pushing her boundaries creating guilt, a desire to please and to do her best to atone for such behaviour? That's mad!
When she talks about her "detention" (you don't give three year olds detention - it's pointless!), it's the next day which is a waste of time because it's been and gone. If they were going to give her time out, it needed to be when the incident happened. Sit her down, explain why she had to sit still and then give her no attention. To do it the next day is beyond pointless. Sitting inside drawing pictures isn't a punishment. It's a play activity. It doesn't give any indication to the child that they are being admonished for poor choices. Something about this does not add up to me at all.
It reminds me of Taylor Swift's lyrics in her song, seven -
Please picture me in the weeds
Before I learned civility
I used to scream ferociously
Any time I wanted
Three year olds are supposed to push their boundaries and adults are supposed to correct them. This video is so worrying to me because Ruby should not feel guilty for how she was as a child. We are what we are but moreover, it is bizarre and worrying that the guilt from this is still with her fifteen years later. It's just more proof that her spirit was kind of broken by the weight of expectations and demands.
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"I'm very excited to make my porridge with this," says Ruby and looks genuinely miserable.
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eww eww ewwaaaand she's given The Song of Achilles 5 stars on Goodreads. No written review as of yet, presumably because she has no genuine thoughts about it... But oh look, it's gotten 273 likes, her next most liked recent update had 106. Imagine lying to get good engagement on your bleeping goodreads account jfc
I was genuinely shocked by this video - it was laughable how she legit justified this as a 'detention' (when it so obviously wasn't) and that she actually (supposedly) remembered that many details from nursery. Being such a goody two shoes all her life I think she really had to really, really reach for a time in which she was "bad" and it ended up being nothing more than normal childhood behaviour. I will say she was very cute as a tiny blonde child though.
That forced smile looks so sad. It’s almost as though she feels sick, which she probably does if she’s drinking a lot of water on a near-empty stomach.
Don't most nurseries and schools have child locks on the windows and have done for some time or was she at a victorian nursery
I'm not being funny but that courgette needs at least another two weeks of growing. What a waste of a courgette.
She took her own advice and just kept on reading it till she liked it
Fixed that for you.
I did English at Exe, and, from what I recall (it was 3 years ago!) the proposal is basically your working title, choice of primary texts and a brief summary of what you will explore. I think it had to be under 500 (mine definitely fit on one page!)
This was due in November, and was really just about assigning you a tutor and checking that your idea was workable. The dissertation itself is 8000 words, so we were encouraged to try doing 3 chapters of 2000 words, plus an intro and conclusion. The proposal was essentially giving a sentence or two on what each chapter will be about, plus outlining our primary texts and some suggested secondary critical texts.
It can change a lot from that though. For example, my first proposal was about the adult-child relationship in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, drawing on historic, cultural and psychological perceptions of childhood (eg: old-school views of child as “becoming”, vs the more modern take on the child as an empowered being innately worthy of respect - as the professor sees her!)
As I had to suspend my studies on health grounds just before he start of second term, I had a whole reevaluation of my dissertation in the break from university and switched to Dahl! I resubmitted a whole new proposal and changed supervisors; however, I know that the same happened for my peers who didn’t take that break, as often your first idea is either too broad, or your research takes you in another direction!
I think Ruby’s biggest issue right now is that her area of study is far too vague. It may sound niche to some, but she will honestly find herself overwhelmed with material and consequently lacking depth and focus. Has she even considered what her primary texts will be?
ps: the Tutor situation can also be a very mixed bag. For example, with the CS Lewis proposal I was assigned a professor who specialised in theology - I think they literally saw the text and thought “oh she’ll discuss religion”, whereas my preferred tutor was the one who lead the children’s lit module, and also had an interest in cultural studies. I was lucky that I finally got her when I returned and did Dahl! But it can be a very tenuous link.
Called it. She's so predictable.
the use of her sentence in her recent stories 'one of my very favourite films' is technically grammatical incorrect. like yes, we understand what it means but i wouldn't expect it from an english lit student. you obviously can use an adverb before an adjective but not in the context of the word favourite as 'very favourite' makes the sentence become redundant as favourite already means most preferred. it's the same way you can't say 'most favourite', again the sentence becomes redundant. not having a go at ruby here as loads of people use 'most favourite' as i 100% do sometimes when talking with friends about food and music etc (albeit i've never heard someone say very favourite until today lol and i wouldn't use most favourite in academic work - i'm also an esl teacher and wouldn't teach it to my kids), just doesn't an english lit student realise this sentence is off? for anyone here that english isn't their first language, in the context of ruby's story, you say "one of my favourite films'. there's loads of articles about this online - just google it if u need more clarification!!!!
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