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    The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
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    Image of Curves Curves
    05/13/09

    In reply to The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
    I do it the old fashioned way. I actually help my child with homework. I am there, in person, overseeing that it gets done. I will give up doing that to a math tutor in a year or so since the homework is quickly going beyond my capability and I dont want to drag down her GPA.
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    05/13/09

    @Curves: But, but--you're a girl and, as we all know, "Math is hard!" How can you be helping with math homework? Or are you just some kind of rebel that wants to fly in the face of everything we've learned from Teen Talk Barbie?
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    05/13/09

    @Curves: We do as well, although I have found that a quick smack to the back of the head is great at refocusing.....my oldest has ADD and is bored easily.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    05/13/09

    @dataPOG: "my oldest has ADD and is bored easily."


    See that was my problem as well only back in the day they didn't have a fancy term for it so I was just one of those 'problem' children..

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    05/13/09

    @dataPOG: And, um, which came first...the ADD or the quick smacking to the back of the head?
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    05/13/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: my rhetoric prof asked me if i was on medication. ouch.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    05/13/09

    In reply to The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
    "Regalos para tu novio"


    ha, now I see the real idea for this device.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    05/13/09

    In reply to The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
    Wow, this reminds me of a titanium ring from one of my favorite makers/sellers:
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    05/13/09

    @PartOfIMAXConspiracy_GitEmStev...: They make versions of these adapted to the needs of drag queens. The ring holds down the manly bit, the chain pulls it all down tight and the ball--MUCH bigger, of course--pops in to keep the whole assembly in place.



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    05/13/09

    @PartOfIMAXConspiracy_GitEmStev...:

    Classy. I have one just like it.
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    05/13/09

    @ssoltero: Oh, really? Cool! Where did you get yours, from your local Stormy Leather retailer, or online from Bed, Boas and Beyond? Mine is the "Maximum Man But All Woman" model, it featrues


    oh, wait


    You were replying to GitEmSteveDave, weren't you?


    Never mind.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/13/09

    In reply to The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
    I don't get it. So do you whack your kid with this thing if they're not studying?
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    05/13/09

    In reply to The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
    Hallo, ich bin Josef Fritzl. der study ball ist wunderbar and Fritzl approved.
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    Image of kevipants! kevipants!
    05/13/09

    In reply to The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
    Whatever happened to a good old slap across the bum with the trusted wooden spoon?


    Worked on me.

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    05/13/09

    @kevipants!: spoons broke on me. it was great.
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    05/13/09

    @kevipants!: All you people with yur fancy disciplining devices. My dad (and mom) just did it the old fashioned way and used hands/fists...
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    05/13/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: meh, that prolly should have been 'disciplanary' devices..
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    Image of Thud Thud
    05/13/09

    In reply to The Study Ball Enslaves Your Lazy Kids
    Great. Do they make a matching chastity belt with a 40 year timer?
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    Image of Max.N Max.N
    05/13/09

    @Thud:


    Yes, it is called a marriage license

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    05/13/09

    @Thud: yeah, but you know it as dungeons and dragons.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @Max.N: +1
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