Why then do medical finding state that babies should be introduced early to highly allergenic foods? I can't speak to the specifics of the original statement, but I presume the poster was referring to the current advice that all children should be introduced early to highly allergenic foods as this reduces the likelihood of developing allergies.

Flylady but don't sign on for the emails unless a dozen emails a day is something you'd enjoy....

I use my right index finger.

If she's not doing it 'on purpose' (with awareness) then I'd say ignoring it is not that odd. When ds wet the bed at night he would always insist he had been 'sweating' - he had no worry about punishment, he just didn't want to acknowledge that something he knew shouldn't happen had in fact happened.

I think the "just eliminating foods" can result in not eating enough. I wasn't prepared to eat more meat than usual, and that often made it hard to eat enough, especially if I wasn't pre-planning my meals. So I would say she may not be getting enough calories, especially with a nursing baby.

Separate. Annoying Child goes outside or gets a job to do for me. On the other hand, sometimes one child finds something annoying about the other child that isn't actually being done to annoy (e.g. bouncing a ball or singing). Then Annoyed Child is reminded that they don't make the rules and it is suggested that they'll be less annoyed in their room with the door shut!

Once I was earning I paid 1/3 of everything (lived at home with my mother and sister). My children might not pay that much but of course they'll pay a fair rent - I expect, if our financial position is stable that some of that will go into a savings account for her (controlled by us, to use for home deposit) and some to us but we're some years away so I haven't figured out the details.

This is why I'm not a big fan of "I'm sorry". My kids know that apologising may be a good start but it's not nearly enough. You don't get to say "I'm sorry" if you're just going to do it again and it is your behaviour that truly shows "I'm sorry" - not your words. If you wronged someone you can expect to wait until the hurt has faded for them - waiting until the anger has faded for you is not enough.

Dd's red hair is everywhere! Ds gets so annoyed because it gets tangled in the wheels of his remote controlled cars. At the moment his remote controlled helicopter is somehow out of commission with dd's hair tangled in the blades... I wash the floors once a week and sweep as needed, but it's never enough.

Couch to 5k has the specific goal of getting you running 5km in a certain number of weeks through the use of interbal training (run for so long, then walk, then run etc with the length of the runs relative to the walk increasing over time). You can find a basic interval timing app and set it up however you want - different tones will tell you when to move between high and low intensity exercise, and you could decide to run and walk or do push ups and walk or whatever suits you. The one I've used is just called Interval Timer and the icon has 0:30 on it (in case you want to look out for that one). A friend just sent me this calendar of one's month of Pilates YouTube videos arranged in a logical order: http://www.blogilates.com/blog/2013/06/03/beginners-calendar-for-popsters-just-starting-out/

Dh is a contractor and although he mostly works a set work week, he could potentially be out of work for a few weeks (has only happened once) and some weeks earns more for extra hours or less if there are public holidays. I use a 'pretend' salary. There's a magic number which is basically a standard week. If we earn less than that (say over Christmas shutdown) then I make up the difference from the 'salary savings' fund and if he earns more some of that tops up 'salary savings' and the rest goes to 'extra savings'.

I taught my son to swallow tablets when he was quite young, 5 or 6 because he had the reverse reaction - liquid Tylenol always made him vomit. For a year or so we had a pattern whenever he got any sort of illness: fever, headache, Tylenol, vomit. In desperation I introduced him to tablets broken into quarters and that seemed to bypass the vomit stage. It was really odd.

Dry swallowing tablets is potentially very dangerous - don't try it! My daughter hurt herself doing this, and when I read up on the potential damage... As it was she needed a liquid/soft diet for several days before she could eat without severe pain.

I usually stay far out of these conversations because I agree with you 100%. It really irritates me how suggesting that people take responsibility for their own actions is almost always labelled 'victim blaming'. I can't get my head around tha sort of thinking, it really is incomprehensible to me. I've recently seen two examples of personal responsibility being expressed in news stories but those are the only two I can think of - it's very, very rare. In one case a teenager had an online account hacked and private photos publicised. She came down firmly against the hackers but added that she should never have placed those photos online. Another was a father whose daughter had gone missing after a night out where she had been very inebriated and he was quoted as saying they'd need to have a serious discussion about it when she got home (sadly she never did). I find both of these people incredibly admirable. In the much publicised story, as she said, of course if it wasn't her it would have been someone else. His behaviour in that sense is the focus. But if we label any discussion of her behaviour or her choices 'victim blaming' then we have no opportunity to focus on ways she could ensured she wasn't that 'someone'. For myself, I'm having those discussions with my kids. I'm empowering them to keep themselves safe wherever possible. And if that means analysing the behavior of victims to learn how to lower the chance of being a victim then that's what I'll do. And I truly hope that if, in the terrible scenario one of my children was the victim, I'd still want other people to learn and protect themselves. Discussing the choices of a victim that led to them arriving at the point where they became the victim does not implicate the victim in the crime, nor does it preclude compassion for the victim.

Dh doesn't look at the spreadsheets at all and he gets irritated when I tell him "we're over budget and shouldn't spend this week" as he earns much more than we spend and we save a lot. But when I offer to rewrite the budget so there's more spending money and less savings, he backs off. In other words, he likes how I manage our finances, he just really doesn't like the nitty gritty of it, or to feel it affecting his behaviour. We almost exclusively use our debit cards which makes it much easier for me to track spending without discussing it with him. He sends me a text if he spends cash - he's been on the same $33.15 for the past 2 months I think - almost everything goes on card. I agree with separate 'envelopes' for potential expenses (this is all done on a spreadsheet) such as family vacations, birthdays, medical expenses, car repairs etc. I don't consider those issues as savings. They might be irregular expenses, but they're predictable - I treat them as a future expense, not a saving and we squirrel away for them with each salary. For savings we have a 'slush fund' which I keep at a set level, 'salary savings' to cover x weeks of expenses if dh is out of work and then another savings account where any extra might accumulate. This has reached a level where I have given dh the go-ahead to replace his very old car with an old car :-) I track long term or 'official' expenses on a separate spreadsheet from our weekly expenses. Petrol goes on the official sheet, otherwise it's all the things you'd expect, insurance, school fees, savings for vacations, car licences, charitable contributions, car repairs, potential medical expenses. What's left is for the other spreadsheet - groceries, his 'pocket money' and mine, family entertainment and an open 'miscellaneous' account which covers everything from clothes to christmas to birthday gifts outside the family to plants for the garden. For the most part we have a lot of discretion over what we spend here. I track these expenses and when we go too far over I issue an alert and dh is told to stop (or limit) spending in x category until further notice. I don't mind if we go into the red in individual categories for a week or so as overall we have money to cover it (from the other spreadsheet) but if things don't naturally correct we change our behavior. Some of our conflicting money management styles are background, I think. He's naturally frugal but I grew up much more aware of money and that my single mother was making hard choices. Plus I've studies economics and have a more formally ingrained sense of opportunity costs than he does. I'm clear with dh that I will redo the budget if needed if he has objections, but that it represents real choices. For a long time we would say we were saving $x but in fact we were overspending in so many categories that in fact we were not saving anything close to that. It was really hard to get him to see that I was ok with upping the limits on each category but then we had to acknowledge that we could not also save $x. Another idea that might be helpful is to discuss any expenses over an agreed amount before purchasing. This gives you an opportunity to remind him of financial realities before a purchase is made. ETA: we also dumped the credit cards in an out of the way spot and only use debit cards, mostly because debut cards show the transcaction immediately while credit cards take some days (and least ours do). This helps enormously with tracking.

It's so HARD! Have you considered a 'mother's helper'? Dd has done this since she was 13. She arrives with a bag of toys and games from our home and entertains the kids while the moms catch up on whatever it is they need to catch up on. Obviously with younger kids and mom still in the house she isn't always able to completely distract the kids but she helps reduce sibling fighting and almonds-spat-out-on-light sofas! The kids and mothers have been very positive about the experience and she has enjoyed the experience too (even when it involved a 3 year old applying nail varnish and make up to her 😄).

We made beer traps when things were getting eaten overnight (mostly by pill bugs). Sink a yoghurt container of beer in the ground (or many of them). The bugs die happy.

I use mostly fabric shopping bags and net reusable bags for fruit and vegetables. I don't buy individual anythings - all family sized and break it down into reusable plastic containers if needed. No paper towels in the kitchen or paper plates for foil dishes. Only 1-2 boxes of ziplock bags a year. We produce 2-3 small shopping bags of garbage every week and a full bin of recyclables every 2 weeks. It's way too much. We're a family of 4.

My mother worked in a school and there was male teacher who was moved from high school to primary school because he was 'socialising' with his students. In the primary school (where my mother worked) he encouraged students to take money that was found in a desk. One of the children told their parent. The teacher was fired after that. At dd's current school there is one teacher who I've told dd never to be alone with under any circumstances. Never met him, but kids have described his as 'creepy' among other less polite phrases. That's not enough information to act on but I'm going to trust the kids' instincts on this... We had a few immature teachers but nothing terrible. Ours was a 100 year old girls' school though, and a certain image was upheld. There was one teacher who hung out socially during recess with girls from her ethnic group. I was always in top academic classes though, and we usually had the more senior teachers.

I'd cut out sodas (except soda water) - Coke Zero is my weakness. I'd cut down coffee to a level where if I skipped for a day I wouldn't be bedridden with the resulting headache (I've actually just achieved this one). No alcohol. Only 1 square of dark choc a day - no biscuits or desserts. No vanilla lattes! No sandwich bread (I'm ok with occasional pita or tortilla or chapatti etc). Those are my personal issues. We already don't do deep fried food or much in the way of desserts, and we eat lots of vegetables, and cook from scratch. We've cut our most bread.

I was a researcher before kids and that also ties into my planning personality. I like having facts, and my plans usually involve lots of research. I put that I don't worry and do plan. Honestly my family would laugh hysterically at that. They would say I worry about everything. I would say I have a well developed understanding of all the catastrophes that might possibly befall us 😄. You know the type - I don't call it pessism I call it realism! The point for me though is that I don't let worry take over, I plan then I mostly let go of worry because I'm well equiped with information. An example: we're travelling to the UK (much) later this year. The idea does make me anxious, especially the public transport aspect. My response is to research each individual trip, and record directions, routes and timetables. If I get confused I google and read travel forums until I figure things out. I soon have a clear mental picture of how things will work 'on the ground' and the anxiety dissipates.

One of my courses for my librarian qualification had us researching library jobs, and all of the ones I saw in the US required a Master's. Here in Australia I'm doing a 1 yr post grad diploma in library and information studies - 8 courses. The Master's degree here includes an additional year in Records Management. There is also a 3 year undergrad librarian degree. I'm not sure it was a wise decision to start the course (I'm halfway through). There don't seem to be many jobs and there are lots of students doing the course. ETA: Being a librarian is NOT about books anymore. Of the 4 courses I have done, 3 were strongly focused on digital media - Information literacy, information design, technologies for information services. The 4th, reference services also involved a lot of database searches, Google Scholar and library specific databases.

I believe there is a way to remotely lock a Galaxy phone, as you can with an iPhone. I don't own one but I had to do research for a project and I believe that came up. Here's an article to get you started - haven't read it in full but seems like what you want: http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-find-a-lost-or-stolen-samsung-galaxy-s6/

I did an outdoor fitness class and LOVED it. What I noticed I really liked was that, because it was a free programme for health insurance members, the group was large and therefore anonymous, and the coach was not of the 'bootcamp' mentality, it was much more about working around your body's quirks (like sore knees) and improving on your own fitness. The programme came to an end but one idea I've kept is interval training - jogging 30 sec walking 30 sec. I go for a walk, stop at a park and do that for 10 minutes. It makes a walk more demanding and I'm slowly upping the number of intervals.

Good lists! I'd add a French movie - Heartbreaker