Master's degree in my field of employment. It took only an extra year after my undergrad, and it opened up more opportunities.

Yes. Joan Baez wrote a song about it, but that in and of itself would not qualify an occurrence as general knowledge: http://www.joanbaez.com/Lyrics/bangladesh.html

Sounds like an eternal middle school gym class. :lol:

Overall we thoroughly enjoyed having husband work out of home. However, there were some stressful times, especially at the beginning, but they had nothing to do with homeschooling.

No, belief in a deity is not a choice. Some people are born unable to give themselves over to magical thinking even if they wished to do so because of some sort of perceived peace or joy.

Inductive reasoning concludes that there is a direct mathematical relationship between submission threads and likelihood of proselytizing, which increases as thread length increases.

Inflamed hair follicles.

I always appreciate a good euphemism-bustin'. :lol:

For me, it means that I am either sympathizing or empathizing with the personal in question. Further, it means that I am hoping they can mount a positive constructive strategy for dealing with whatever challenge they are facing and that they ultimately find resolution and peace.

Both of us were middles. Both of us played role of eldest.

No religion here.

Usually my soupmaker kid prepares homemade tomato soup. However, when we use canned condensed tomato soup, we add water.

:iagree::iagree::iagree: The Southern Baptist megachurch in my area engages in just such practices as you described. Many years ago, in a different part of country, my family had moved to a new town. Eager to fit in, I accepted a schoolmate's invitation to their church. She assured me it was all fun and games. Monday through Thursday consisted of goofy crafts (piggy bank made from bleach bottle), benign music, and games. Friday was a Southern Baptist pulpit-pounding emotional sermon calling for sinners to be saved. I sat stiffly in the pew and steadfastly ignored my VBS teacher's persistent admonitions to me only to accept Jesus into my heart or face eternal flames. Her other charges had went to altar or were already "saved." Some of the kids were crying; one girl was literally shaking. Although I was not frightened because I did not find the eternal ****ation threat credible, I did feel bad for the kids if they were crying from fear instead of joy. I do not fault the church or the SBC; I was the uninformed child who made poor decision. When I told this story to co-workers a few years ago, one of them, a Southern Baptist, insisted that the Southern Baptists no longer did "altar calls" in VBS. This statement perplexed me because that co-worker is a member of the SB megachurch here that DOES engage in altar calls during VBS.

Somewhere over twelve hours driving time would be my cutoff for choosing air travel over driving.

My hat is off to your daughter for having the chutzpah to cut a new frontier along a well-worn path.

Posters here who teach high school have made more egregious grammatical and usage errors than anything in your example. PS - his price is a steal.

I would take the high powered job for a predetermined number of years yet continue to live as though husband laid off. Sock away at least half the salary so you can have a hefty down payment when you buy farm from your folks. Perhaps you could go ahead and purchase the farm but rent it to your folks. ETA: You could begin work on a life simplifying plan while still in city, especially if you choose to continue to live as though husband is laid off.

My post stated that *we* do not advocate evangelization. I was explaining why we would provide financial support to an organization that we would not normally support. I never stated that you or any other proselytizer did not have a right to proselytize. But then that was clear from my post. I would never presume to attempt to influence a business to play music that was tailored to my personal tastes just as I do not contact businesses to complain (or boycott) if they offer goods or services, or advertising, that I would personally find offensive. I do not roll that way.

No, I do not recall user names of anyone who posted in the thread in question.

In my opinion, no, you should not look more kindly upon the requests. Why should you be called upon to help finance someone's personal or spiritual journey? Frankly I would not have the audacity to make such a request of anyone. When my kids have been asked or required to raise funds for a project, we have simply donated cash and/or bought the overpriced products ourselves. We do not consider it appropriate FOR OUR FAMILY to ask friends and relatives to help finance our children's activities. As an aside, we give a significantly higher percentage of our income to charity than the average for our income range. Much of it is in the form of direct cash assistance to needy individuals, and, as such, is not even deductible on our tax return. As a cost of doing business, my husband once made a small donation to an associate's missionary family acquaintances. I say cost of doing business because we do not advocate evangelizing in any religion, particularly when it is in tandem with carrying out charitable activities. For the last ten years or so, we have received 3-4 requests per year for donations to the family.

Yes

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My first thought was that she will dispatch her thuggy male minions to do him harm again. In addition to all the other great advice you have received, I would invest in a personal taser if they are legal in Texas. I assume they probably are. A discreet camera in his vehicle would be good idea too. Change the cell phone number and remove as much identifying information as possible from social networking sites and the internet in general. Pressure the detectives. Oh, and get affidavit from the people who rescued him. Could he possibly move beyond her geographical reach?

:iagree: However, when posters stated that the husband was just as guilty or more guilty than the homicidal mother, I assumed that they were swept up in emotion and did not literally believe that the husband should have been charged and tried as an accessory to murder.

Sometime in last year or so, a poster started a thread asking for advice for handling her son's reaction of irrational disgust at the sight of her daughter's elbows. She mentioned this happening when they sat down to a family dinner. I have tried without success to locate this thread using the search function. Any suggestions on how to track down the thread?