Most of the Phoenix museums have at least one free day or evening each month, and the public libraries have Culture Passes, which can be used for free admission to many venues.

We are using it for the little boys. I hadn't thought about the next one for Jeff, but I think we'll try it.

I need a paper planner. I need the physical act of writing. I have a huge wall calendar and a paper book. Doctor's appointments, classes, community events, therapy sessions, etc go on the calendar. What Subjects To Study When With What Materials Goes In My Planner. Anything I Pay For In Advance, Or Appointments That Must Be Kept Are In Pen. anything Free Or Unnecessary Is In Pencil.

Put the oldest boy with the teen boys. A trundle bed or floor bed if necessary. Get creative with storage. Big girl gets the den. Again, creative storage. Good luck.

I did something else with my oldest. He's generally a slow thinker, and I needed to speed him up. I set a timer, and rewarded him for finishing in time. Then gradually have him less time. It worked well. But that's a different thing.

We do this with content subjects. I read until they get less interested. time I tried it For Output with my resistant childs. He was a dawdler. I asked that he focus and work for a very short time, With The Intention of gradually increasing the length of Time. He Just Ran out the clock and did literally nothing. When I called him on it, he complained it wasn't enough time. Before this her had complained it was too much time. You can't win sometimes.

I had no idea this was happening. It's terrible. Though I did read a book set in the US with American characters that was riddled with britishisms, and not the usual ones. It was confusing. We watch enough BBC and YouTube that my children are comfortable with both. During our dinosaur unit i could not get them to stop pronouncing the h in herbivore. A Canadian friend pointed out that it's not wrong. Changed my perspective a bit.

It used to really bother me. As well the countdown to kindergarten. "Only two more years!" I think it's a sad commentary on the importance we place on raising our children. Like time at home is something to be endured until we can get back to doing important, desirable things. I don't see it as much as I used to. I have seen all the defensive explanations. People like routine, school kids aren't great at entertaining themselves all day, parenting is hard. It's all true. I still think it's in poor taste. But so is discussing politics in public.

I am good at boggle, but my cousins are ridiculous. Even the little ones. But they play a lot. And a great variety of games using similar skills.

I don't even look at the list. Words just pop out. I'm My local paper, they must use a generator and trim list to fit the space. There are so many excess words. I did hundreds, maybe thousands, of word searches when I was a kid. My brain is strongly trained for this task. And I think in typeface.

"I'm not asking. I'm telling." When they try to argue. "I'll find you something to do," or " Do you need something to scrub? " when they get whiney. "Look your eyes where you're going."

This. I only get this question 40 times in the final 30 seconds before we sit down to eat. Or when they are deciding whether to fill up on snacks instead.

That's a misconception. Alcohol is a cns depressant, in any dose. People think it's a stimulant because it lowers inhibitions, making the drinker louder and more aggressive.

Black tar is lower quality, compared with China white. It's sticky and gooey, so no snorting. I'm just here to share the knowledge.

I haven't read it, but So That's What They're For is supposed to be a helpful, light hearted, funny read. LLL isn't like that in my experience. I didn't love the book. It depends on your area and your specific group. The leaders will still work with you, you don't have to attend meetings.

I eat nuts often. "Can I have a nut?" " you are a nut. " They are so annoyed with that one, I'm expanding it to everything. "You are a cup." " you are a pencil. "

My children do this all. the. time. This is why I yell. NOt only do they eat up all my ingredients, they leave the trash for me to deal with. They are getting better, but I have not forgiven them at all. Maybe I never will.

I like Sugarland, but her twang is so adorably, ridiculously over the top.

Kind of. We tke short breaks as needed through the year. In the summer, we do the summer reading programs. And I require some math. And some writing. And we do learning programs/classes outside the house, too. not really school, but no mush brains around here. Once the reading program is over, we are back at it. We start our school year in early July. We ended at the end of April, because we were all fried from a stressful year. Usually we go through early may.

Well... I'm taking amphetamines for weight loss. I'm taking B vitamins for mood, energy, and physical benefits.

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I was that mom. Heck. My second kid didn't wear diapers. Never touched a drop of formula (because he had deadly allergies). Only had organic, all natural, animal free baby products. Lived in a wrap 100% of the time (colic). soy free vegan (allergies and after effects of hyperemesis). No plastics in our food, No toxic chemicals in our house, no disposable products in our home. It was normal in our circles. It did not seem weird to live this way. I made one large Vitacost order each month. I bought our food at an open air produce market and a health food store. They had great prices and excellent quality. Homemade cleaning products were far cheaper. We saved a ton of money by not throwing stuff away. And my baby was relatively healthy. He survived, and he did not need continuing medical intervention after the NICU. We beat the odds. I had reasons for doing what I did, just as I have reasons for not doing those things now. I was not foolish or stupid. I was not racked by anxiety over every detail. I did not criticize what my friends fed their children, nor did they judge me. We shared openly and lovingly and we all had the goal of doing our best for our families. BTW, I hate the dihydrogen monoxide jokes. Mockery is not nice. Those jokes downplay some very real concerns that some people have over actual real problems. Nothing shuts down a conversation faster than trying to humiliate the other side. But that's the point, isn't it? To laugh at people you think are not as smart as you.

we hang out between $400 ans $800 a month. We do bulk buys at irregular intervals. I'm spending a little over $100 this week. I hit up the asian market today for $50, I'm placing an amazon order for $50ish for 54 packets of soup and a couple of boxes of broth, and we will need 3 dozen eggs and a carton of almond milk. I have the bread machine out to bake our bread. Everything else, we already have.

my kid has adhd/asd. He's about 2 years behind, has been since toddlerhood, and I imagine will stay a little behind forever. From his doctors this seems pretty typical.

Ours is not ridiculous. We were Strawberry School for many years, and Tumbleweed School now. Pretty generic for where we live. Our name appears on almost nothing. We could be whatever we want with no impact.