rainbowmama
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My ten year old daughter is getting a subscription to Tinkercrate
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I drill the kids on what to do if they are in a shooting, but otherwise, no. I am a worrier, and knowing the kids know what to do helps me.
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Ugh. Like the pp said, I'd plan on sitting in the back and just leaving when necessary.
I'd also mention the issue to the kids' teacher. The program should really rethink how they are doing recitals. Recitals for young kids shouldn't be that long anyway, and any program that regularly goes over time by an hour and a half (!) needs an overhaul.
My kids have been doing Suzuki cello for years and their recitals never exceed 50 min.
This year they cut a portion moving the planned time from 2.5 hours to 2 hours, probably in response to parental complaints of how very long the recitals are. They put the most advanced students first most years: I think the idea is to have us preview the repertoire and have the kids see what they are working towards. It's just very hard for families with young children. My kids' teacher agrees with me that it's too long, but the director is the one who organizes the performances.
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Personally, I would have waited until the next recital and skipped this one. DS8 started violin in August and is not performing in the winter recital. It is optional, it was brought up through email, and he doesn't even know it exists right now.
Between being new to the instrument and the baby and sitting for 2+ hours, I'd wait until there's not so much stress surrounding the event for a first performance.
I started recitals very young (age 4) and have a music degree. And still have crippling performance anxiety.
Both kids take group lessons, where they talk about and prepare for it at the group class. There's no way they wouldn't have known about it unless I skipped lessons for most of October and November.
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I love Barenaked Ladies' Christmas album. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is the first one I listen to every year. I'm not religious but it's still my favorite.
Although right now Oscar the Grouch's "I Hate Christmas" from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street is roaring to the top of the list.
I love this version, too! I love Silent Night, Noel Nouvelet, In the Bleak Midwinter, and Carol of the Bells.
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After reading the choir thread, it made me rethink my plan of just popping in for the parts where my kids perform for their upcoming recital.
I have a young infant who doesn't take a bottle and a young, antsy preschooler. The preschooler and his older brother have a group recital. The preschooler has only had lessons on his instrument for a couple of months, and the school expects me to get on stage to help him. I practice with the children every day and played the instrument for years: their father has hearing loss and does not feel confident helping him. The preschooler really anticipates his first recital. The school impresses upon us that we should stay for the whole recital, which is scheduled to last two hours. These performances always go longer than planned: one of the recitals ran almost 1.5 hours longer than scheduled. The children are expected to be quiet and still, even baby babbling is not permitted. My baby cannot do this at all, and my preschooler certainly can't do this for 2+ hours. If you were me, how would you handle the recital?
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We very rarely use a compass. I set aside a compass for my tween for the AMC8 she will take today. One of my littles wandered off with it and won't cop to it (or doesn't remember). Do I need to make a special trip to the store for this? She hasn't used a compass for any of the practice tests, as far as I know, but the instructions say to bring one.
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Have you broken your nose? I think I have, and it hurt quite a bit for a long time. My then toddler son head-butted me, and I heard a distinct snap. I didn't get xrayed, so I'm not certain, but I have heard the bone snapping sound before. It bruised, but didn't swell a lot. I have a ridge across my nose now, and it is a little shifted.
All that to say that if she broke it, and needed further treatment, she is likely to still be pretty sore. I couldn't rub my nose, wrinkle my face, or squint without pain for several weeks.
Thanks!
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Sort of? I have a tween who is a mother's helper and got a few gigs through our music school. Through this, she now offers being "practice buddies" for some of those very young kids on her instrument. I don't think she'd have those gigs, though, if she hadn't been a mother's helper first.
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No. Is there any reason to think that she has a broken nose? I would imagine that you would know due to swelling etc.
Other than she got hit in the face? No. I just worry with her slight asymmetry that I could miss a slightly misaligned nose and it cause issues down the line. She got whacked Friday evening, and I had planned to call today when her doctor office opened, but now that it's already almost completely healed, I wonder if I should still call.
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I have a child who got whacked in the face roughhousing with sibling. She has a small, superficial scrape on either side of her face that already (two days afterwards) looks like it will be gone soon), but no black eye, no swelling, no bruising, no bloody nose. She was born with slightly asymmetrical nostrils, so it's hard to tell if her nose is misaligned: if it is, it's very, very slight to the point where it just looks like her normal slight asymmetry. Would you call the doctor for this?
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So, we really need to get our heating system fixed, as it is not moving air around well in the house. My goal is to keep my bedroom, the coldest main room of the house at least 62 degrees during the day, which often means setting the thermostat in the hallway at 75.
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Are you reading for fun/art, or because you believe that the cards actually predict the future?
In my personal practice, I believe it to be a form of prayer. When reading with others, it can feel like prayer, it can feel like counseling, with hostile seekers it can feel like an awful test designed to see me fail... it really depends on the seeker.
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I'm not religious myself, but my experience is that many religious people will be okay with being in a class or group, but will discourage friendship. If your kids are old enough, I'd simply tell them not to mention it.
Well, one of my kids is a preschooler, but even then, I'd feel uncomfortable asking the kids to keep secrets like that for me.
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Unless the children are constantly quoting you about spirituality/religion or trying to predict my kids' future I wouldn't care if they interacted in class. Outside of class? At your home? I would want to know maybe if the cards were out and being used there, that type of thing. Like I've told my son (he saw it on TV) that we don't use Ouija boards. But likewise, I keep conversations pretty secular unless I'm in a Christian circle. And even then, I don't talk about religious stuff much.
I do occasionally host homeschool meet-ups in my home. I often have cards out in my room, which is off limits but I've had a stray toddler wander in there anyway (and quickly ushered out). I couldn't guarantee that a kid would never see a book or deck put away on a bookshelf, but I've never had kids playing with tarot or oracles cards in my house that weren't my own. It's never been an issue, and if a parent or child noticed, they didn't say anything.
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When you say "if you homeschool for religious reasons" what do you mean?
If you homeschool in order to prevent your children from coming in contact with worldviews other than your own, then yes you probably want to avoid associating with this family.
In any other circumstance, I think you need to view the situation as a whole. There are good and moral people who have many different spiritual and religious perspectives. Is the parent someone you generally like and trust? Is the situation one where children are proselytizing to one another? Do your children have a comfortable understanding of the reality that not everyone shares your family's beliefs?
What is your perspective on card reading--do you consider it to be occult and inherently dangerous and evil, or just misguided?
I'm pretty sure that 99% of kids who associate with the children of card readers do not up and abandon their own family's beliefs in favor of someone else's, but you have every right to establish your own boundaries that you feel will keep your children safe. I don't think anyone else can determine for you what those should be.
I read cards, mostly as a hobby but occasionally as a paying gig. I just got offered a very part-time job and am just trying to get a sense of how it might affect the kids socially if I accept and the kids mentioned it to some of our more religiously conservative acquaintances
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If you homeschool for religious reasons, would you be comfortable with your kids being in a homeschool group with the kids of a card reader? Would you discourage a friendship with those kids?
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Muffins, pancakes?
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One of my kids takes a group music class at a music school. It's not expensive, but it's a requirement for private instruction that my kid takes concurrently, which is expensive. I noticed that we seemed to have a lot of substitutes. The teacher sent out an email today saying that she wouldn't teach again today, that she's had multiple mental health breakdowns over the last week, and is working to put her life back together. Is it likely that this teacher will reliably teach the rest of the year? Is it reasonable to pull my kid and ask for a refund? I feel sympathetic to this woman, but I definitely had the expectation of a consistent teacher for the class, not a revolving door of college students.
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I don't like to parallel park, but I also don't like to park between two cars. Despite barely making it to story time today, I still managed to find one of my favorite parking spots. Is that too little of a thing?
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My second kid got a gizmo at five, mostly because he and his older sister got them as gifts from grandparents. All they do is call me, my spouse, and grandparents. I've actually really liked them, and when my younger children start getting dropped off places, I'll probably get them ones, too.
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Maybe I'm being judgmental, but three moms I know admitted to having had a CPS investigation against them or their spouse. I was shocked. The reasons they gave seemed outrageous for an investigation. Is it really that common to have been investigated by CPS? Only one of them has ever homeschooled.
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I can't imagine what any of us could tell you that would be more reliable than the opinion of the doctors who have seen him.
Humans are usually not 100% symmetrical. It doesn't sound like there is any major malformation since the child's father and grandmother don't see it at all.
Are you generally a worrier?
I know as moms we want all the best all the time for our kids but I don't think time spent obsessing over minor imperfections is well invested.
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I think what I want to hear is other parents chime in that they have kids with asymmetrical tops of their heads. I spend a lot of time looking at people's heads, and while I definitely have noticed a lot of men with weird, bumpy shaved heads, it's hard to tell with kids. If I didn't know where my kid's bump was, I'm not sure I could see it. I know I didn't see or feel it for years, if it's been there all this time. So, if it's so normal - not a flat spot on the back of the head, but a bump or unevenness on the top of the head, I'd love to hear from other parents whose kids have this.
Re: Christmas stockings and "trinkets"
in The Chat Board
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Our children struggle sleeping to a reasonable time on Christmas morning. The anticipation keeps them too wired. After the year where they started asking if they could get up at 3AM, we decided to let them open stockings and then play quietly in their rooms until a more reasonable hour. They actually tend to sleep later (or go back to sleep) this way. So, I generally put a few snacks, some sort of puzzle, a book for kids who can read, coloring books for kids who can't yet, matchbox cars, I did playdoh one year but I really regretted that...