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My husband's 100 year old grandfather passed away this afternoon after a very short illness. He apparently had a heart attack 1 1/2 weeks ago and has been steadily declining since then. I just wanted to share since so many of you passed along your well-wishes to him on his birthday.
Papa and me on our shared birthday this past December--his 100th and my 40th.
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The owners of the company who made these are friends of mine from church and classically homeschool their daughter. I'm so happy for them and the attention these videos have brought their company.
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Ginormous:iagree::iagree::iagree: and any other similar conglomeration. It's "giant" or "enormous". Pick one already!!!!!
Interesting fact--ginormous has been around since 1948. :D
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I would like a tool that help me keep the classrom clean.
The absolutely best organization tool I have is my Brother P-Touch label maker. I label everything! My kids (and even DH) can help keep things neat because they know where things go.
Other things that help:
Magazine holders for thin little books that otherwise get lost on the shelf.
Desk Apprentice (bought on sale)
Pencil boxes for organizing all kinds of small office supplies.
and lots and lots of bookshelves
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After doing some more reading and thinking, I'm pretty sure I'll go ahead and get the 64gb new iPad. Now to talk it over with DH one more time before I hit the order button!
Off to read the threads about the best apps...:auto:
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As Petepie mentioned, Durham has a high crime rate and parts of the city are not safe. Homeschooling in NC is easy and generally well accepted. There are more homeschool activities and co-ops available than you could possibly participate in. Cary has two nicknames: Containment Area for Relocated Yankees and Containment Area for Relocated Yuppies. It is an upscale, expensive area.
Love the cartoon!
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I've been wanting to get an iPad, so I waited around for today's announcement to help me decide what to buy. I want a 64 gb wifi only. Do you all think the new iPad is worth the extra $100?
We're PC and Android people, so my DH is no help...he just mocks me for drinking the Apple flavored Kool-Aid. :D
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McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales by Sid Fleischman
:iagree: You beat me to it! This one is laugh-out-loud-can't-keep-reading-because-I'm-laughing-to-hard funny
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It also reminds me of when my friend was redoing her mortgage and the bank had real trouble working out the paperwork for the mortgage. She had to make them redo the paperwork three times because they kept adding things up incorrectly and working out various things wrong ending up with miscalculations in the payment. The staff doing her paperwork seemed to really struggle with what they were actually needing to work out which seems odd for people doing it as their job.
Yikes, that sounds scary! It reminds me of Idiocracy.
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and neither were allowed to walk the halls carrying their babies or cosleep.
The rules must have changed. I gave birth there seven years ago and my baby never left my bed.
I had to bring my baby back to the maternity ward the day after I was discharged to have his PKU stick (long story) and I had to be escorted onto the floor since neither baby or I had the little armband/footband alarms. We wanted to make sure that I wasn't accused of stealing my little guy.
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I'd count it all, even the travel days there and back. Makes me so glad that our state doesn't require a set number of days.
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Grimm. I liked OUAT, but the adultery thread is starting to get to me.
:iagree: I was pre-watching OUAT to see if it was something that the whole family could enjoy, but I decided against letting them watch because of the adultery story line. They have a friend whose parents are getting divorced and it's a raw/scary topic for them.
I vote Grimm, because DH and I watch it together. He is so not interested in OUAT.
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I still think he needs to state why the sessions matter. There is only a partial thought there, not the whole thought.
It's hard to say since we don't know the question he is answering.
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Isn't that a silly question? There are undoubtedly sites offering Neurofeedback (NFB) , and some may offer testimonials, but since Neurofeedback takes many half hour sessions at around $100-150 per session. Why? Neuroliminal Training (NT) has been proven to do the same brain wave changing as NFB at a small fraction of that cost.
I think the writer started to write one thing, then changed his mind and didn't go back and proofread. If you take out the "since" in the last part of the sentence, it makes sense.
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I'm leaning toward saying no, but I would like to offer a couple of alternatives. Any suggestions?:bigear:
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Thank you. I'm worried about the drug content. I have two brothers that struggle with drug addiction, so that topic is one that we guard our kids from because, unfortunately, they have enough real-world experience with the fallout from addiction.
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Is The Accidental Spy appropriate for an 11.5 yo boy?
My almost 12 year old has been invited over to a friend's house tonight. The other boy's mom said they wanted to watch Jackie Chan's The Accidental Spy. I'm not against him watching a movie just because it's PG-13, so I usually check Common Sense Media or Plugged-in for their reviews to see if it's appropriate. However, this movie isn't on either site. Can anyone give me a good parental review or point me to a site that has one?
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I just checked. We've been on there since December of 1998. We actually joined so early in its existence, that our user ID is our last name!
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One of the moms at my group bought it and loves it. It is exactly the same as the memory work found on CC connected. It's downloaded onto the iPad, so you don't have to have a connection to use it.
I'm getting an iPad next month and can't wait to get it!
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No, they aren't making people buy their new manual, but you will have to "purchase" the new timeline somehow through C3, the new cards, or the memory work CD. That is not included in the free updates.
Beth
Or you can just write down each new segment when you're in class each week.
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There was a 30 minute period for art in which the tutor told the kids about an artist who used dots to create his pictures, showed them a comic strip with magnifying glass to show another example of that kind of art and briefly showed them a book about the artist. Then they used big pieces of paper off a roll to create a picture using dot paints. Not a great way to mimic what the original artist was trying to create but a simple enough project for a group I suppose. I wasn't impressed and thought it was another missed opportunity.
I'm a CC Foundations director and I can tell you that the art period you saw is one of my least favorites of all the art projects we do. Very, very, difficult project to pull together and do during the allotted time. Three of my tutors managed to pull it off and two of them didn't. We try to look at the art time as one of exposure and practicing different techniques. It's not necessarily a time to come away with an amazing finished project.
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We don't really have any rules as far as food goes except to make sure our peanut allergic child and his siblings don't eat anything without their mom approving.
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My son's 10th birthday is coming up and I would like to take a special snack to his CC class. I love this idea. Can y'all think of substitute food items, though? I'm not against the treat being sweet, but Twinkies and doughnuts seem a little over the top. (One little boy in his class is very allergic to peanuts, but his mom is great about helping us come up with alternatives for him or bringing a substitute treat herself.)
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I wrote the contact number directly on their upper arm with sharpie. They always thought it was cool.
That's what I did when my kids were younger, too. Nothing to lose, mangle, fiddle with, etc. I just freshened it up every morning.
My DH's grandfather has passed away
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Thanks everyone.
He did! He was very healthy his entire life. He didn't have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, dementia or anything else people associate with old age.