OK, admittedly, this is more like talking to 10 year olds than 4 year olds but the issue is the same.
The Shoelets, Thing 1 and Thing 2, are good students. They like school and are good natured about taking on new challenges such as multiplication, division or sentence structure. Part of the reason they are good students is that Mrs. Shoe and I take their education seriously. We make sure that it is a priority for them.
When the Shoelets come home, after greeting them, reminding them to take their shoes off and to hang up their jackets, the next thing they get hit with is “Do you have any homework?” Homework is a priority in our house. Homework gets done before they get to play with their friends, play video games or do anything else that is on their “fun list.” In our house we try to instill an attitude where we take care of what we have to do before we get to do what we want to do. Interestingly, we hear constantly from Thing 1 and Thing 2’s teachers how well prepared they are for class and how much of a challenge that issue is with many of the other kids in their classes.
In the past week, President Obama has had time to fill out his March Madness brackets and make appearances about it . Obama has also had time to campaign in California and appear on the Tonight show. It’s an amazing recovery for Obama. Just 10 days ago, Obama was too tired to provide a proper reception for the British Prime Minister!
While President Obama was out doing the thing he wanted to do, the things he needed to dowere ignored. The Treasury still has 17 lead positions unfilled. This is the department whose head, Timothy Geithner, is still unable to deliver a promised toxic asset plan. It is also the understaffed Treasury that not only approved of the original AIG compensation agreements, but is now unable to concoct a comprehensive string of lies that would allow them to cry “Buuuuuuuuush!” President Obama has no plan or timeline for dealing with the Treasury vacancies. No plan for the department that is arguably the most important given the challenges of the current economy.
In a related note, President Obama announced on the Tonight Show yesterday, that he does have a date when the First Family will be getting the First Dog. Yup, he’ll have that task taken care of by early April! That is, he’ll have a first dog by early April if he can get one to pass the background check and agree to have its name forever sullied by being a part of the sinking ship called the Obama administration!
I rather suspect he is about to play a cruel April Fool’s joke on his daughters.