nanny deb

so i mostly hang out with guys here since cmu's bschool is only 20% women. normally people say - "that works out well for you " since they assume that girls like to hang out with a lot of guys because they enjoy the attention. now, this is a misconception. girls do not actually like to hang out with only guys because you can't talk about girl stuff and it gets boring to only do things guys want to do all the time. for example, my guy friends are "guy" guys and they will not watch chick flicks with me when we go to rent movies. a girl however, is normally able to watch almost anything. with maybe some exception to realy scary movies because that requires ideally having my hunny rite next to me or else a very large pillow to hide behind. i also like to cook and when you hang out with mostly guys, that means you cook for them. when you are with other girls, you normally have fun cooking together.

over the weekend i had some quallity girl time that was much needed. i went to a step/sculpting class with rita. afterwards we went over to her place and cooked spicy pork tofu, baby bok choy, salmon, and corn. after dinner we watched alias and some sort of nanny show. i was also able to watch alfie and i heart huckabees with the roomies. also chatted with karen on the phone.

the nanny show was really interesting. basically a nanny will select a troubled family with a bunch of misbehaving kids. the family they chose had 3 sets of twins, 4-9 years old. oh man...they were really bad kids. we're talking kicking eachother, screaming and whining for everything, hitting the parents, hitting eachother constantly. the nanny, nanny deb, lives with the family for 7 days to try to turn the family around. at first i thought it was impossible, but eventually it turned out the nanny really did make a HUGE difference. she figured out the kids didn't know how to communicate. the parents would let the kids scream and hit until they lost their patience, then they would lose it and shout at the kids to go to their room. the nanny taught the family to talk about what was wrong, to teach the kids to say why they are angry rather than crying and screaming to get what they want. after the seven days, the kids were all playing with eachother and most of the screaming had stopped.

mental note: when i have kids, teach them how to communicate!