Living in The Natural State

Today it was about 48 degrees when I dropped the kids off at school and went to my school where I teach.

It's February, it's considered winter, even though the vast majority of kids never have seen enough snow to build a snowman or have a snowball fight, we have the unit winter on the program. The kids make snowmen craft and other very unfamiliar things to bring home to their parents for them to smile and be excited about but as soon as the child turns around get tossed in the trash can, and who can blame the overloaded parent, really?

Well that's one of the reasons I'd like to go live in a state where the four different seasons are present.

Here's an other reason:

As I said it was about 48 degrees this morning. Kind of cold, right, maybe you should wear a jacket or coat? Nah, not in the Natural State. Are parents just such outdoorsy villains that they think 48 is equal to 98? If you look at the way they send their kids to school you may start to wonder.

The elementary school were my son attends have the policy that they go out for recess if it's 32 or over. I can consider that a fair rule even though I think back and realize that I would never have had a recess in winter time where I grew up if the same rule had been applied there, but that's a different topic. But when it's slightly over 32 and I drop my son off in the morning dressed in a warm coat, I see other kids come out of their cars dressed in short sleeve shirts and one day I even saw a boy in shorts!!!!

Are some Arkansan moms that much friskier and hard skinned than I or are they just brain damaged?
I don't know.

Today at the school were I teach we didn't go out for recess because some thought it was too cold and some kids just had light jackets... wimps!

I who had had coffee and some candy for breakfast (just telling to show the high IQ I possess) and was on a sugar rush like never before got in to a rant about when in the world we should go out.
The window for outside play is somewhere around 55- 85 degrees, anything over or under that prevents any outdoor activity if we should go by my colleague's, who I love very much, standard...

Let's dress according to the temperature. To check, look at the thermometer and then ask yourself if it make sense to have the same outfit on when it's 95 as when it's 45.

And then, let's get outside and play!!!!