What we are reading!

Below, are this week’s list of links from around Twitter, blogs, and top news websites that buzz about social media, marketing, business, and more!

• Don’t Stick It in Their Mouth: How to ReTweet – Un-Marketing
• Media140: How Twitter has Affected Brands – Guardian.co.uk
• 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for Entrepreneurs – Mashable
• Social Media Needs Fewer Rockstars, and More Rockstar Ideas – The Viral Garden
• Marketing is NOT Changing; Just Ask Paul Revere – Social Media Today
• 10 Tips for Creating Buzz with Facebook Events – Social Media Examiner
• Social Media Makes No Sense for My Company – HubSpot

Check back next week for a whole new set of links that offer some social media buzz.

Last night was my son’s conference… today was my daughter’s. The two are completely opposite; day and night. It can be a good thing – sometimes. Other times it can be a nightmare – and both kids know it.

The parent teacher conference was a good one. My daughter is very much the helper in class, is doing at level or above level for pretty much every area in her class… her downfall – she likes to visit her friends in class way too much.

She’s a lover, not a fighter!

Like I said, she is very much a helper. She will help you with your work, sharpen a pencil, pack your backpack for you, but she chooses to do these chores at the wrong time… during centers, or class reading, even when the teacher is in the middle of teaching.

I’m glad that she is overly helpful instead of the bully in class. So, I had a chat with the little girl tonight about how to choose the right times to be helpful and when she needs to let the teacher be the teacher. I think she got it and quite honestly all she was worried about was if her grades were good.

Well, yes, she is the only child I have that loves school. But, she is only in third grade right now. It could very well change. I will take the happiness while I can get it. Trust me… I’m not prepared for what will be happening in a few years!

My son is brilliant… he’s just lazy.

Not exactly all the gooey, warm, fuzzy stuff you want to hear about your first born, but exactly what his teachers all stated tonight at the Parent Teacher conference. OK… I knew that. His teachers knew I knew; I think they were re-affirming that. Plastering it in my head so I wouldn’t forget. Letting it stew in my brain for all eternity!

My son is lazy when it comes to academics.

It was agreed with both his AP Science teacher and Algebra teacher that it is time to just let him sink or swim. Well trust me, he was sinking just fine! Their thought, stop pushing him about getting his work done and let him realize that he needs to wake up and smell the F’s he is producing… time for him to be responsible for it. OK… you got it. I mean, honestly, his grade in math couldn’t get any worse. But, as a parent, I’m suppose to push?

Right?

Maybe not like I was. Maybe I was hassling him about it. Maybe I was a tad bit overbearing before… you know, in past grade levels when he was failing miserably! That is why I push because I know in the past he has not succeeded – always for the same reason – laziness.  He can truly do the work, beautifully, that is why it is so hard to stand on the sidelines and watch him fail.

I want to trust… it is just so difficult to watch.

One quarter. That’s what we are going to give him to shake himself into realization; to learn that school needs to be a priority. Fun and friends will fall into line… not to worry about that. So will I be back here in one quarter with great news that he has learned to swim… or will he have sunk in school? I’ll let you know.