Since we are military, we don't know where we will be living when she goes to college so we can't tell her whether we will be near or far. She can't go to a school where the costs aren't covered but that still leaves a lot of schools. (SHe will get the GI Bill and with a good yellow ribbon program, that should cover completely or almost completely all costs at many schools). I do know she wants warm not cold so I take that to mean zone 7 and above since she hated being in Philadelphia in the winter and she hasn;t lived in the winter in any area colder than zone 7 since she was 1. She wants to be pre-law with a major in a popular major like psychology, poly sci or economics. I have found her some colleges but she hasn't even checked them out on the web. I really don't want this to be all my ideas but I just don't know when she will have time. I am really wanting her to start applying later this summer once the applications are out since we may very well have a sudden move. The AF is having more people retire and with the economy the way it is, both dh and I think that people like him are more likely to be retiring since his industry isn't suffering. He won't be retiring (and won't be forced to either) but if people suddenly retire, he may be moved suddenly to take over someone's job. We also have our lease running out mid December and while I think the owner would like to extend it to later SPring in order to sell at a better time, I really can't predict. I want her applications in by late Nov.

My dd is so extremely busy both with her school work, prep for tests, debate, writing a novel (one of her classes), community service, choir, and soccer in a week that she has basically no time to think about college. She visited a few colleges this summer and that is it. SHe knows one that she will definitely be applying to but other than that, she is really unsure and unable to think. NOw in April, debate ends and I can have her not do choir but in May, here comes dual enrollment and the end of May comes dive team. Her community service is here and there right now- she will be helping with a food drive soon and then there is a relay for life in June plus a blanket she is knitting for a 4H service project. I am not sure what to do. Any suggestions?

Oh I will definitely count my dd's hours in a mission trip since she was doing community service, not evangelizing. SHe painted an outdoor wall, cooked a meal for homeless and poor, and took care of children in an afterschool program. In her case, I don't think it makes any difference whether she was sleeping in a church in the evenings or serving the food in the church fellowship hall. THe food was for anyone in the community and not tied to any beliefs. I would also count anyone who volunteers at a soup kitchen,

Wow, that is strange about only one English credit per year. Both of my kids who have been in high school and myself in Public school, ending up with more that 4 English credits since we all used electives to do extra English. My son did public speaking and Sci Fi/Fantasy lit. I did Drama and Journalism. My middle is currently doing Novel writing. This was beyond the normal English classes which were a combination of reading literature and writing.

I am an AF wife and I have to agree with Sebastian. First of all, as she said, the classes you take in ROTC are not classical but rather practical. Secondly, at least with the AF and Navy, more and more of the ROTC scholarships are going to math/science/engineering majors.

We are military and so for our first two kids, we won't be living in the same place from senior year of high school until they gradaute from college. So, no, we don't care about distance since what is close now can be very far away later. I wouldn't want my kids coming home very often anyway unless they really lived very close. I wouldn't want them wasting travelling time while they are supposed to be studying and I don;t see any reason why they would get more studying home than at school.

In my last house, our bathroom only had a shower. I didn't like that at all. I get migraines and sinus infections. I want a bathtub. In this house we have a bathtub/shower. WHile this is better, what I would really want is a separate shower and a separate bathtub.

We are not YE Creationists and we don't go to churches where this is the standard. We do go to a co-op where the church has YE beliefs but most of the participants go to churches that aren't YE in belief. At my current church, there are people who are YE but certainly not most.

My dd took her first CC class just after she turned 15. She was in honors Psychology and had no problems. Since it was an honors class, it was at a good level, and not dopey.

When we lived on the Fl east coast, there were quite a lot of kids in our community who went to Univ. of So. Florida and they lived on campus as it was a 2.5 to 3 hour drive. Now, I don't know if they were the only ones living on campus, but I think you can find out those statistics online.

Why does she have to go to that college after community college? There are over 3000 colleges in the US and many, many of them offer teaching degrees. I would have her go to community college, if that is all you can afford, and then transfer to a 4 year college that would have the courses and experiences she needs. I would not have her take on large debt to become a teacher.

" You must be very smart". I hate it when people say to me about how smart I am. I don't know that they think I should answer_ no, I am not, Yes, I am, well you sure aren't, what???? Don't tell me I am tall, short, smart, dumb, fat, thin, etc, etc. Whatever I am, I know already. Rant off.

Praying.

My mom was 43 when she had me and 46 when she had my sister. We got this a lot. But my mom died when she was 65 and I had my children at 26, 30, and 33. I didn't think it was a good idea to have children so late. I really regret not having my parents see any of my children. My mom died when I was 23 and my dad when I was 13. I make no comments like this to anyone.

With my oldest and youngest is was puberty time (12-14 for boy, 11-13 for girl thouh with her still going on). With my middle, it was late 14-15.75. She turned out to have PMDD and that didn't start until about a year and a half to two years after her periods started. I am recovering today from the collision of all three yesterday (since oldest is mildly depressed and irritable right now, he isn't good either). So far right now I could say yesterday (as I spent this morning cleaning up soup and Pork with Plum Sauce oieces from my kitchen floor).

I would like to add that we have a wonderful feature on this board called ignore. If you get annoyed by someone, put them on your ignore list. You can always look at a post they made by signaling that you want to ignore your ignore clause for a particular post. :001_smile:

So many of you have children going to bed very early. WE don't do that. We eat dinner normally somewhere between 6:30 and 8:00. We have family time up to about 10 or 10:30. Morning time is my alone time. If my dh is home, I make his lunch, make coffee, do dishwasher clearing, take care of my pets and check email. I read the paper, watch some news, and give my dd medicine and then make sure my girls are doing school by 9am.

By 11 pm. Earlier if we have something early to do like tonight when we have to be at debate tournament at 7:30 am.

I am very worried. There is a way that other countries cover everyone and at a cheaper price. THe universities to train the doctors, nurses, etc, are very cheap so no one comes out with 200K of loans. The facilities aren't fancy in any way. No nice chairs, plain decor, very basic waiting rooms, etc. THe level of services is minimal. No one who has friends or family members relies on the food in the hospital. BUt what did they get? Very good medical care and incredibly short waiting times and quick service. THat was in a system kind of like what we are supposedly getting in the US. Belgium does not have a single payer system and not everyone is actually covered. Oh- two more great differences- everyone pays a co-pay of something, even the 'poor', and there are hardly any lawsuits since loser pays court costs and attorney fees for both sides. Unfortunately, we are not going to get this system so it will not be economical either for the medical workers nor for the government.

Yes, it is unconstitutional. It violates Amendment 10, at a minimum. According to people who have actually read the bills, there is also a constitutional problem with the way the bill was written and voted on. THe way bills are supposed to be written is done in one house, voted, sent to the other house, voted, and then signed by the President. THe two versions must be identical. Apparently this was not done. I don't approve of this bill from either the constitutional point or the economic side. This bill is a disaster from an economic point particularly with regards towards the unemployed.

Most schools don't require FAFSA for merit aid. This is a strange requirement that some schools do. Even if they do, since you are not going to actually use any federal aid, it is not important to be very accurate. The people who need to be accurate as close to reality as they can are people who are expecting need based aid. That is because you don't want to be in violation of federal law if you get aid. On the other hand, overstating your income is no offense at all and you can try to be realistic but err on the high side of your income and check the form, will file taxes instead of have filed taxes.

I should add that while we don't choose churches with how many homeschoolers go there, we make sure that churches we attend/become members have a welcoming attitude towards homeschoolers. That can mean that it isn't mentioned but it can't be negative. Our church in FL had mostly public schoolers but was very welcoming of homeschoolers and did have two other families. In Belgium, the chaplain was homeschooling as well as a number of other families though others were in schools (American, Belgian or Canadian). In NM, we were one of the few homeschoolers but again everyone was welcoming. CA was where we had a problem. There I left a church when the interim minister compared homeschoolers to terrorists.

We are in a church that has families that homeschool and families that don't. We also have lots of couples past school aged children, singles, and young marrieds without children or with little ones to young to homeschool. So out of the families with school aged children, probably about half or maybe a third homeschool. The homeschool families tend to have more children so it depends how you count them. Many others have children in private schools.

YOu could be having a thyroid problem. If that is so, that is not a problem you self treat. PLease see a doctor first, get checked out, have a few tests run to make sure it isn't something serious, and then you can use alternative or complementary medicine.

No, your employer will not be covering you. In fact, many of you will be losing your coverage. That is because the fine for companies have over 50 employees for not having insurance is 2000 per employee. The cost of insurance is more that 2K per employee. It will pay for them to drop employee's coverage, add pay to management, keep pay at the same rate for regular workers, and what will happen is the employees will have to get their own insurance or pay up to 2.5% of their income as a fine. Oh, and if you had high medical expenses and were taking deductions for that from your income tax, well now those high medical expenses have to be over 10% of your income versus 7.5% before this bill. This is not simply my analysis tht employees will lose coverage. This is the analysis of the Congressional Budget Office. Oh, and as I said, as a person with pre-existing conditions and having three kids all with pre-existing conditions, our coverage does cost more than a healthy persons. SO by having everyone pay the same, you have the healthy pay for people like me. That will raise premiums. Now another thing about this bill is that while the bill expects to add 30 million people to the health care system, it adds no funding for training more doctors, nurses, etc. or building more facilities. Yet it does add 17,000 new IRS agents. That seems to me that they are interested in money, not in health care.