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  1. My oldest dd will have two rounds of braces. She has the first round of braces on now. She had a severe underbite and X-rays showed her teeth were a mess. Some of her adult teeth had no room to come in. Either they would come out sideways through the gums or not come out at all which would be a problem. She was chewing fine but nothing lined up right. If teeth don't line up correctly, they can wear away by rubbing each other or chip and eventually fall out all together. My oldest ds has a gap between two teeth. Everything lines up nicely and for him it would be purely cosmetic. He doesn't care so we are not having to spend over $4000 to correct it. For what it's worth, teeth in general are not considered medically necessary by Medicare. My mom used to work for an oral surgeon. Medicare pays to have teeth extracted but not replaced (bridges, false teeth, etc.). You don't need teeth to live. :thumbdown:
  2. Really? That's what you got out of my post? I didn't claim my dd's asthma was cured by water. For every asthma attack after that, I used albuterol and inhaled steroids like the doctor said. They worked. The time I used a homeopathic remedy, I know what I saw. I don't tell people to use homeopathics and forget what the doctors say. That would be ridiculous. When my kids have problems beyond normal things like colds, we see a doctor. That same dd needed surgery at age 4 to correct an issue. I didn't turn to herbs to fix that. My point was that western medicine doesn't know everything. It doesn't even claim to know everything so it's surprising to me that lay people act like it does make that claim. Things can happen whether we have the ability to explain it or not. Isn't that the whole idea behind science? That something can be learned and eventually explained? I thought scientists were supposed to be open-minded in the sense that we can explore and learn the world. Sometimes alternative treatments turn out to be proven valid through science, sometimes not. Sometimes old-wives-tales and home remedies turn out to have validity. To say that something is automatically false until proved through the scientific method is silly. And it seems to be what people seem to be saying when it comes to alternative treatments.
  3. How is it flawed decision making to do something that works? Just because science or modern medicine can't explain something doesn't mean it doesn't work. I'm in the middle on alternative treatments. I've had several experiences with traditional doctors where they ignored a real medical issue--told me it was in my head, got upset with me for wasting their time, one doctor rolled his eyes at me even after I explained I had lost a third of my body weight in less than a year when my food intake had gone up (in my case it was celiac, over 20 years ago before it was widely known) and another time doctors tried to treat my allergic reaction to a food with Valium and antidepressants (again, before food allergies became well-known). Traditional doctors can't explain everything and, at least in my case, were playing catch up to the "quacks." When dd1 was a baby, she had asthma attacks. After twelve hours of breathing treatments (albuterol and steroids), I couldn't see much difference in her breathing. Within minutes of trying a homeopathic remedy, I could see her pale face turn pink again and her breathing deepen. That could have been a coincidence, I don't know. I was just glad to see her a normal color. I started seeing alternative doctors because traditional doctors ignored my problems, telling me it was all in my head. I don't reject western medicine. I'm very thankful for it! But it has limitations. If someone doesn't want to try an alternative treatment because there is no study to back it up, fine, but I didn't need a medical study to tell me to not eat gluten. I knew that I was symptom-free after quitting all gluten. It was a health food "nut" that suggested gluten might be my problem. Now science is agreeing with what many people already knew. People need to try new things so we make more discoveries. :-)
  4. Here's an alternative remedy I've never heard of: http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/dont-sniff-at-this-cure-baker-told-to-blow-balloons-to-treat-boils-can-inflate-tyres-in-20mins-using-his-nose-4273773/ And I don't know how many YECers would be in China. ;-)
  5. I rub peppermint oil on my knee before I run and my knee doesn't hurt. I use eucalyptus oil on our chests when we have colds. Oils are helpful but they are hardly a panacea. I prefer to try something more natural first then move to stronger medicines if needed. As far as killing cancer cells, sometimes I wonder what is meant by that. I could probably kill cancer cells in a petri dish by dousing them in bleach but that's hardly a helpful cure when the cells are in someone's body, you know?
  6. I know people who have done this. I don't remember ever seeing a direct appeal for cash.
  7. With a couple of threads lately that have mentioned TCOO, I also wondered where he was!
  8. If you eat no sugar, what do you have for breakfast? That is our biggest downfall. My kids love a sweet breakfast. They will do fine all day but breakfast is so hard to figure out. They want pancakes, waffles, muffins, cereal, etc. I like leftovers for breakfast (soup is great!) but they won't do it.
  9. I didn't really word my first post as well as I could have. I meld things the way you say too. :001_smile: My faith informs all other areas of my life. I was thinking more of using the Bible as a scientific text and developing scientific hypotheses from it. Then if the hypotheses are shown to be false, people assume the Bible is also false and full of error. I'll have to check this out. I definitely agree with the bolded. My ds and I were discussing this the other day. The more we advance in science, the more we realize we don't know. We finally get a microscope powerful enough to observe cells and find even smaller components and still smaller. We build a telescope to see to the edge of our solar system and find more and more beyond. It's all fascinating.
  10. And sometimes homeschooling isn't about producing the next Newton or Einstein. It's about giving an solid education to an average student who would be lost in the public school system, graduating without knowing much of anything.
  11. My parents taught in a one-room school house after they were first married. They were the only adults there and still have contact with former students. I think I'd still want another non-related adult there though, especially for just preschool kids.
  12. There is no reason apart from personal conviction.
  13. This is an interesting concept. Isn't there debate among scientists now whether or not humans were an inevitable result of evolution? That humans were the only possible outcome given the environment, starting genetics, etc. I thought I read an article on the somewhere. I'll google.
  14. My kids don't do this with anyone but their siblings. I wouldn't be comfortable with my kids rough housing at a co-op regardless of gender. I have one son that doesn't like rough housing in general but some boys started it with him at a baseball game and wouldn't stop after he repeatedly asked them to. It didn't end pretty and I have no desire to revisit that. In our family, I don't mind my oldest boy being a jungle gym for my girls who are younger than him. He doesn't mind either. He's old enough to be careful and they can't do any damage to him. The one area we don't allow it is between our two middle ones. Our girl is younger but taller than our boy and she is definitely more aggressive. I don't think it is healthy for either one of them that she constantly is trying to overpower him. They are so competitive so I try to limit it hands-off activities! I see nothing wrong with tag but I'd probably draw the line too at tackle football at a co-op.
  15. I'll have to look for that course. I'm a bit scared to head back over there though. :)
  16. I agree with this and wonder if YECers have done a disservice to religion by trying to meld the two. They end up putting God under the microscope when it just doesn't work that way. By demanding scientific evidence for a position held by faith, YECers are somehow bowing to the superiority of science, as if science has the final say, when as you point out, science is limited.
  17. Definitely get local field guides. Check at a local book store. I find it helps to be ahead of my kids so all the guides I had at first were for me. Right now you could ask simple things like "How many legs does that bug have?" and then when he spots another bug "Now how many legs does that one have?" It helps guide him in making connections. At two I'd focus on him noticing the differences between leaves, the differences in the types of flowers, things like that. He doesn't really need to learn all the details now. It's enough that he notices them. When he's a little older, give him a nature journal so he can make drawings and you can write down what he says when he describes what he is seeing. This website gives some good ideas of what to do outdoors: Handbook of Nature Study Blog. It goes along with the book Slache recommended.
  18. Romans 5:12-14 "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come." If you interpret that to be physical death, then there is a problem.
  19. In my experience, people who call evolution a belief system are YEC and it's often paired with atheism. I think the YECers who use it are confused as to what they are trying to say. Maybe there are others who use that phrase?
  20. I think when people say evolution is a belief system they are actually thinking of scientism.
  21. I hate my side by side. No room in the fridge or freezer for anything. Everything in the freezer has to be stacked. My ds had an avalanche when he opened the freezer last night.
  22. Do Nazarenes believe that salvation can be lost? That would affect a view of "backsliding"--or the end result anyway. I've heard it used in denominations that believe "once saved, always saved" but the meaning is still used much as bolt described. It's a turning back to sin instead of progressing toward godliness.
  23. A teen who has a much easier time understanding when someone else does the reading. He can read it aloud to himself and pronounce words correctly but it's a little stilted and inflection isn't always right.
  24. My dh's response to any complaint I have: "Know what would fix that?" :001_tt1:
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