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If schools are your thing, this is kind of interesting.
The Bishop Estate is the largest land owner in Hawaii, and the entire point of the estate is to give money to Kamehameha Schools.
This explains it: What is the Bishop Estate? Bishop Estate Trustees, Hawaii, editorial, by John Pritchett

And here's a wiki of the schools themselves.
Kamehameha Schools - Wikipedia

Anyway, my daughter went to a pre-school / daycare thing in Hawaii Kai called KCAA. It was a good school and they did plenty of activities.
The school was 5 days a week and had hours of 7am-4pm. Kids could be dropped off as late as 9am, and picked up as early as noon. It cost us $1000 per month for this school.

Little lad is just over 8 months old now, he's surfing the furniture like a boss and free standing, not long until hes walking...scary stuff. He loves banging shit on an empty cookie tin, not sure how he manages to make it so loud.

Best thing about him now though is that every night (if he isn't sleeping) he recognises the sound of me unlocking the front door when I come in from work and he comes crawling out of the sitting room at full tilt, making his excited noise all the way down the hall and wants picking up, makes you almost feel like they're worth the effort.

Xarpolis said:

If schools are your thing, this is kind of interesting.
The Bishop Estate is the largest land owner in Hawaii, and the entire point of the estate is to give money to Kamehameha Schools.
This explains it: What is the Bishop Estate? Bishop Estate Trustees, Hawaii, editorial, by John Pritchett

And here's a wiki of the schools themselves.
Kamehameha Schools - Wikipedia

Anyway, my daughter went to a pre-school / daycare thing in Hawaii Kai called KCAA. It was a good school and they did plenty of activities.
The school was 5 days a week and had hours of 7am-4pm. Kids could be dropped off as late as 9am, and picked up as early as noon. It cost us $1000 per month for this school.

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Does this shit teach you how to be Goku?

Kalaar kururuc said:

Little lad is just over 8 months old now, he's surfing the furniture like a boss and free standing, not long until hes walking...scary stuff. He loves banging shit on an empty cookie tin, not sure how he manages to make it so loud.

Best thing about him now though is that every night (if he isn't sleeping) he recognises the sound of me unlocking the front door when I come in from work and he comes crawling out of the sitting room at full tilt, making his excited noise all the way down the hall and wants picking up, makes you almost feel like they're worth the effort.

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There is nothing like that feeling - my girls even at 4 and 6 still b-line run at me when I pick them up from school...

...it wont last...I must enjoy it now

Big_w_powah said:

Does this shit teach you how to be Goku?

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Glad I wasn't the only one. I was like OH SHIT! Gotta send the kid there to learn how to fusion charge!

Wife had more blood work yesterday and her levels are steadily falling now and she's feeling much better. Crisis officially averted! MEGAPHEW!!

ToeMissile said:

lindz talked to my wife about this last night, she's an assistant principal at a HS here in California. Obviously can't speak to specifics since laws are a little different between states, but she basically said the same stuff i and others have previously, but mentioned one other thing: Make sure you document everything.

What/when/where for the boy, how your daughter reacts/talks to the teacher. Your interactions/meetings with the teacher and any other school officials.

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That's what we're doing now. We got the school district and the police involved. They now have someone observing the boy - within earshot of him - all the time and he's in an anti-bullying program. Principal is giving me regular updates. My daughter has a journal at school so she can write down anything that happens as well. Hoping this will contain it if not resolve it.

Big_w_powah said:

Does this shit teach you how to be Goku?

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Yes. In other news, the Estate has existed for a while. Here's a New York Times article published about them way back in '83.

HAWAII TRUST WIELDS UNUSUAL POWER

My eventual goal (when I have enough) is to purchase some unused land from them. If it's possible at all.

Zapatta said:

Hahahah. Keep Dreaming. They own the land under almost every valuable piece of real estate on Oahu and some on the outer islands. There is no 'unused' land that belongs to Bishop Estate. Best you will get from them is a fee simple 1/8 acre lot with a house on it in a shitty track home development. You have been in Hawaii 5 minutes and think you are gonna become a land baron? Hahahhaha stand in line behind Japanese, Chinese and ME billionaires.

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I'm not talking about becoming a real estate mogul. I'm talking about purchasing a single parcel of property in which to build my own house. And I've heard that people/businesses are able to purchase unused land from them in some cases. I'm thinking a nice 1/2 acre that I'd love to get my hands on. The property in question has "private property, no trespassing" all over it. But it's pretty much an overgrown field. Nothing on it but trees and tons of weeds. And it's in a residential area.

Noodleface said:

Thanks for the info

8-9 hours a day sounds fucking terrible. I want my kid to be a kid as long as he can

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It only sounds fucking terrible.

Both my daughters went to daycare starting around their first birthday, and enjoyed it immensely. They play, they sing, there's a lot of toys of all kinds, they learn (really they learn things that made us go wtf where did you learn that). They get a warm meal, they get to nap afterwards, they get to socialize with other kids (yeah it's important to learn how to play well with other kids else you might end up like the boy in lindz' story eh)

Honestly it sounded awful at first, giving your kid away for so long. We started at two days from 7am to 4pm with the older one, after a year we booked a third day 7am-4pm. Used to be mon-tues daycare, wed-thur grandma, fri mum didn't have to work.
The kid got bored of the grandma thursdays and wanted to go to daycare more.
She's in her third year of kindergarten now at mon-thur 7am-4:15pm and fri 7am-1pm and loving it. She has lots of friends, can count to over a hundred (basically once you're at that point, only time is the limit in how far you can go), can count to twelve in english (remember we're german krauts here), writes and reads her name and other easy words, etc.

I'm not a teacher and neither is my wife. I really doubt we could teach our kids even remotely what they learn in daycare/kindergarten if one of us were to stay at home with them. I'm also a horrible singer and a shit guitar player so all the music stuff would be left out obviously. They also have a small gym at kindergarten where they have sports hours twice a week. They have a HUGE garden with climbing stuff and a sandbox and god knows what, they go on walks to the nearby woods or downtown to watch ducks at the creek. They take excursions to the police, firefighters, hospital, zoo, ....

Daycare at three full days + meals runs us around 250€ per month (state pays the rest).
Kindergarten at those 4.5 days used to be 125€ monthly and in the final year you get another 100€ off so it's 25€ per month + roughly 30€ for meals (of course also state subsidized). Germany fuck yeah.

That, and there's the whole house payments stuff that basically forces both of us into at least 80% of work for the next 8 years or so.


Both my kids go nuts when I go pick them up after daycare/kindergarten. They love me. My wife hates me because she thinks the kids love me more. I guess it's just a girls-dad thing. At least that's what I keep telling my wife. I also love my kids more than I love her

lindz said:

That's what we're doing now. We got the school district and the police involved. They now have someone observing the boy - within earshot of him - all the time and he's in an anti-bullying program. Principal is giving me regular updates. My daughter has a journal at school so she can write down anything that happens as well. Hoping this will contain it if not resolve it.

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It sucks that you had to go nuclear to get them to take it seriously but I'm glad they at least are. I worry about this so much with my daughters, especially with girls, young girls are so fucking cruel to each other.

lindz said:

That's what we're doing now. We got the school district and the police involved. They now have someone observing the boy - within earshot of him - all the time and he's in an anti-bullying program. Principal is giving me regular updates. My daughter has a journal at school so she can write down anything that happens as well. Hoping this will contain it if not resolve it.

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Glad to hear you got that worthless shitstain of a principal to do their job. Sorry you had to jump through so many hoops to make it happen.

Still dealing with "bugs". My wife has to lay in the room until he falls asleep - at night only though. During nap time it's fine. We gave him a nightlight but it hasn't helped yet

Noodleface said:

Still dealing with "bugs". My wife has to lay in the room until he falls asleep - at night only though. During nap time it's fine. We gave him a nightlight but it hasn't helped yet

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Have you tried something like this yet? Our guy loves it. When I turn it on after the lights are out he says "wwwoooowwww". He'll lay on his back for a while looking at them then flip over when he's ready to sleep. Other than that man I don't know what I'd do. Sleep issues are especially rough on me. ugh

Yeah we have a turtle for him that does it. Just freaks out at night

We had a lady bug star light thing like that...its mine now...I want a "real life" star map projector now.

Xadion said:

We had a lady bug star light thing like that...its mine now...I want a "real life" star map projector now.

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Your wife might object to having the J Law frosting face lit up on the ceiling all night long.