Not sure why you would think that there is consequences? When you turn someone in they do not tell them who called in on them..

I say if you know someone that is abusing a child to call in on them. No way could I stand by if I thought that was happening...

Now there is parents that still believe in whooping their kids.. But there is a difference between whooping a child and beating a child..The latter call and help get the kids out of the situation..It may give the mother a chance to get out too... if that is the case... well unless both parents are cause of the abuse.. Then they both need to be caught and dealt with..

LMAO - Oh, being the 'TYPICAL TEENAGER'; how normal is that ??? bless his heart. There is a huge surge in the 'later starting' time here in the States...they've found that pubescent young humans biological clock is geared for a later start time; and instead of pushing/punishing that age group they are allowing the middle school thru high schools to start 1 - 1� hrs later then the grade school. Seems to be working quite well; tardiness is decreased and so is absentee's as well.

WHO KNEW WE OLDER HUMANS COULD ACTUALLY LEARN SOME NEW TRICKS

Jog my short-term memory problem; isn't this the young man with special needs? Perhaps something has made him afraid - upset him - made him fearful but he's lacking the verbal skills to explain it all to you! Could you leave just early enough to ride with him {with his schools permission} to drop him off earlier then normal so you aren't stressed and your other 2 children won't be penalized/late for their own school?

Just a suggestion, because I had to do this with one of my 'Special Needs' young boys; he'd started off the school year happy/content to get onto the bus and then suddenly it was a horrible struggle/battle for his grandmother {who was left to raise him on her own} to coax/bribe - try to get him back onto the morning bus!

Found out that her grand son was getting bullied and the bus driver was ignoring what was going on behind him --- he was one vile - ugly human being too!

Give him an incentive
instead of battle of wills?
For each day he gets up and into taxi without you hollering and being late he earns time on his phone or playing videogames

Well your right about my confidence having had a kicking. My issue is that I can only be so patient and that it has literally become an obsession to the point that when "it" happens, I want it to be perfect. Time is as much my biggest enemy as is my confidence.

You may say all that but in reality you naturally pick and chose the one that's best. Your seriously telling me you would buy inedible lemons over fresh ones? You would help the spotty kid on the till who will take 10 minutes to serve you when your in a rush and have to actually be somewhere important in 2 minutes time and being late means its game over. It seems typical from most points of view that women are looking for their knight in shining armour and a castle away from all the riff raff. Women surely instinctively and naturally chose someone who is strong and stern over someone who is shy and in the shadows. You can't fall in love with someone you can't see however someone who is strong that can protect you and your future children sounds like the right choice. I fail at every turn because I do not behave in the immature gangster/hard-man ways and instead choose to be the more intelligent and financial type because I know in reality brains and money are far stronger than some pathetic muscles but sadly 99.999999999999999999999% of women are far to blind or lack the intelligence to realise this. But then again I must reiterate myself, You can't fall in love with someone you can't see. I do believe that other people may have an interest in me but since I don't have the confidence to speak nothing happens or the times they do see me are when I'm too confident such as when I'm at work and so they might assume that actually I'm taken but since I can't change anything unless I wear a sticker on my head that states single and searching I might never get anywhere.

I was just taking my training for my new job, and our aquatics expert assured me that yes, it's bad to keep goldfish in a bowl. The amount of oxygenated water in a bowl is supposedly not enough to keep a gold fish healthy, and if you have more than one in a bowl it can prohibit their growth.

When I was a kid, I had two goldfish sharing the same bowl (and it wasn't the largest bowl, either). We didn't have a filter or an oxygen pump, either. They seemed to grow up fine until they hit what, back then, to Young Me, was "fully grown". After a while we decided to set them loose in a public pond, and my aquatics expert assured me that was all-around better.

I agree more with ciretorn and Goof. I think when people carry on about how personality is all and looks should be irrelevant, they have a very specific scenario in their head. The choice is between a total A-hole who is movie star hot, and Joe(Jane) Average with a heart of gold. The intelligent choice is clear.
But the world is not peopled with characters from central casting. There is no absolute inverse relationship between looks and personality.

Let's say instead that your choice is between Joe quirky cute Average(see Goofball's profile for illustration) with a basically decent personality, and a steady job -vs- Jabba the Hutt's human analog who, it turns out, is the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet. The customers at the supermarket where he bags groceries think he's a riot.

You try to tell me Jabba's your man, and you're a damn liar. Because if that were true, you wouldn't be here. Change your approach to dating. Pick out the least attractive man in any situation and start chatting him up, you'll find your prince charming in no time.

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.

I think it's ok as long as the cat doesn't get them

i think its worse to keep them out of water