Clarita
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3 minutes ago, Slache said:
Honey, that is an uphill battle.
Haha don't tell my kids that. I'm approaching like these are just like all the other languages of the world. My only saving grace is I have decent pronunciation in Mandarin and Cantonese. I just suck at vocab and am illiterate.
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Hush y'all! Now I feel like I'm going to be on an uphill battle because the two main languages for my kids will be Chinese and English. At least numbers and grammar are pretty easy for Chinese. At least I totally think it is compared to English and French (learned in HS).
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7 hours ago, dodgeat2 said:
Conceptual teaching, mental math practice, timed operations facts practice, puzzles or nontraditional practice including logic, games (card games, board games, etc).
This seems like it's a lot to plan for every week.
I think what I would do is pick a math curriculum I like. Something I feel like we could make work and progress with just following day after day. When my child needs more help in an area then I start looking at conceptual teaching/procedural teaching, and mental math ideas or practice to help. Then once a week or whenever you get bored chugging through your normal curriculum then bring out timed practice, puzzles, games, etc. and substitute those in for a lesson or a few lessons. There are a lot of ideas on the web for free you can tie into whatever your child is learning or needs more practice at (I just google activities for learning/practicing .........).
The Facts that Stick series is just books of mental math strategies and games to get better at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. So, they may be good resources to get some ideas on easy fun things to do when you feel the urge to change it up a bit.
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I think this might come down to every individual is different.
All the elderly people with fantastic skin say they do nothing special for it just moisturizer if they remember and sunscreen. The caveat is they've probably also won the genetic lottery with their skin.
I also know a lot of people with OK skin who get facials and have full blown skincare routines. They swear that these are the things keeping their skin the way it is. I know people who don't have great skin who get facials and have full blown skincare routines. They tell me things would be so much worse if they weren't doing all that.
I think without specific details about your skin, like what are problems you'd like to solve, what issues you've had in the past, etc. It's likely hard for anyone to give you any good advice or advice that would even work for you.
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On 4/25/2022 at 1:26 PM, Jenny in Florida said:
Oh -- and I will admit this is a weird quirk but -- I have a general policy of not watching any movie or TV show adapted from a book until after I have read the book. So, a bunch of the suggestions here would require me to do homework before I could watch. (Which I don't mind doing, if it's something I think I'd enjoy, but I would still like to find some stuff to watch this week.)
But it makes for such good TV. A bunch of the shows I've been loving are based on book series. My suggestions of Bridgerton and Man in the High Castle I guess are off the table.
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Ratcheting screwdriver
Immersion Blender (people who make good blenders also make good immersion blenders)
Kitchenaid Stand Mixer
Pressure Canner (Can also be used as Pressure Cooker). I guess Instant pot are popular now but I think Pressure canner does what I would want Instant pot to do.
Slow Cooker (or a crockpot)
Cold Hard CASH. My husband had already lived by himself for a while and so actually had a bunch of stuff like the stand mixer, immersion blender, dishes, etc. What we really needed was remodeling our house. Alas, doorknobs, electrical outlets, switches, drills were not what people wanted to get us as wedding presents. So I got a whole bunch more plates, flatware, cups, serving dishes that I honestly didn't "need" (they were nice but, I had to put enough to serve like 20-30 people - people complained that I needed more stuff on my registry). Just saying every couple needs different things to start out. Seriously most of the newly weds I know really just need rent money or money for down payment on a house or car or something.
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5 hours ago, Spirea said:
I just want my dd to learn to keep quiet and not depend on snacks.
Being realistic it will happen eventually, but age-wise that might be years down the road for a full service (even with limitless snacks). In the meantime, there may be a fair amount of leaving before the service ends.
My son's ability to sit through a church service quietly has improved tremendously between 3 and 5 and he spent those 2 years not being able to go to in-person church (read no practice for sitting through a church service). As they get older, they get better at communicating (and volume control), better at entertaining themselves for extended periods of time, and better at comprehending what is going on during service.
12 hours ago, katilac said:Some toddlers are just not capable of sitting through church, eating in a restaurant, going to a movie, or whatever.
This also reminds me a great place to train but not as demanding is a restaurant. If possible, I would suggest Chinese, Vietnamese or Mexican restaurant. Those cultures bring their children to restaurants, so the patrons are more accommodating. Those are the cultures that might look shocked that you've never bought your 2-year-old to a restaurant.
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24 minutes ago, BakersDozen said:
Following as I just finished Downton Abbey and am now feeling quite lost.
Downton Abbey A New Era is coming in May!! I wish they would stop with the movies and just give me more seasons. The movies are just not enough, I have not found a Downton Abbey equivalent, I have not found an equal.
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I second Bridgerton (not historically accurate AT ALL but I think it's what would happen if Maisel and Downton Abby had a baby). It seems from your list you should have watched Downton Abby already if you haven't just do that.
I've been enjoying Man in the High Castle (I would say it's like a what if history), but it does have a little bit of science fiction bent. Has some violence because history has violence, but I haven't found it too bad.
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Pick a place with easy egress, take her in and out as she gets bored with church. Most todders are going to have trouble staying still and quiet for the entire service. Some are able to do it, but I think personality comes into play and most toddlers are just not going to be able to (nor should they be capable).
I try and make the service as fun as I can for the child. Like I'll dance with her during worship, make exaggerated emotion during the sermon. "Ooo look what's happening!!" during "events". You can do it in hushed tones but act really excited. If she squeals with excitement over something that is happening during the service, my philosophy would be the adults just have to deal. I can't help if my child is excited over God. People at my church are also very accommodating of that, really welcomes it.
All that said I wouldn't pick a church who needed silence in the room and relegate parents of small children to some backroom. I prefer churches who are welcoming of small children and their noises and/or who provide Sunday school for children at least before first grade/kindergarten.
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We did put in one of those noise making stakes in our vegetable garden, but you can't really hear ours unless you next to the beds.
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I don't know how much work it would take for your area/yard. But I know people put up owl homes/hotels or make their yards owl friendly. Like having shady trees or build little homes. Owls are the most effective animal at taking care of moles.
Whenever feral cats roam our yard and I hear owls in the night I have less issues with moles and other rodents.
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So if you hired her on a more regular basis she may not charge as much per time. Usually they have a "deep clean" fee and a "maintenance" fee.
You can try to look for someone cheaper, you may find it. The thing is house cleaning is kind of hard to quantify. So, the cheaper person may not be cleaning as thoroughly as the expensive person, but may be good enough for you.
Like I had one house cleaner who would dismantle light fixtures to clean them and stuff. Then I had one who just cleaned everything you could kind of see.
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No. I would say this even if they were lacing the food with peanuts or flour or chili peppers.
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1 minute ago, Slache said:
Update: The boy has decided to study French casually in his free time and take Japanese seriously as a school subject in a few years. This leaves us the opportunity to finish Spanish and study Japanese at a healthy pace while still allowing him to be insane if he feels the need.
I'm so happy for you on this plan. Studying a language casually now can also make it easier to seriously study a language later. If I knew him I may remind him that he has a lifetime to learn all the things he wants to learn. Serious learning doesn't need to end after 26 (randomly picked number for mid-twenties).
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If he is a thrower put up a "batting cage" in your backyard. A really nice one (it won't be the same size as the commercial batting cage setup) could be about $1000. Jugs Hit-at-Home Backyard Batting Cage - Beacon Athletics Send him in there to throw whatever his wants. You may have to purchase a golf add on if he likes to throw smaller things and a tarp if he likes to have the sensation of the object hitting something.
Maybe his own garden bed where you can give him some plants that are completely edible. Don't buy expensive plants and get ones that potentially reseed themselves. If he completely destroys it is fine, if it gets covered in weeds make sure the weeds are edible.
Mud box then get him some shovels and stuff. Depends on how much trust you have for him you can give him access to water to put in this giant mud pit thing. (I prefer mud over sand because feral cats don't use it as a potty and it doesn't really need a box just some sort of boundary for your child.)
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8 hours ago, LucyStoner said:
I was speaking about a number of people I know who think this is their biggest issue. And no; these people do not regularly interact with people in a personal way who do not have a college degree. While nearly 6/10 Americans do not have a college degree, there are definitely places where the figure is much lower than that and the social divisions are such that people stay in their bubbles. I suspect based on what I have read that this pattern plays out in other large metropolitan areas where there is a lot of social stratification, even if people want to pretend it’s not there. I used to work for a non-profit that conducted various workshops and exercises around class with donors. One of the parts of the workshop was counting the people that you knew well and personally who didn’t have a college degree. The results were illuminating every single time that question was asked. People would routinely mention their household employees, their grocery checker, their favorite bus driver. Contrary to what an affluent person thinks, their nanny is probably not their personal friend and the nanny was the most likely person for them to have any social contact with outside of the service being performed.
Most of my neighbors are working class and don’t have a degree. That is atypical for my area. Two blocks over, different story. To be clear: they *encounter* them but they don’t commonly have contract with them outside of the times that they are using a service or buying something. It’s a social bubble.
I absolutely vouch for this. It opened my eyes when I joined the city tee-ball league. In casual conversation the question was asked of everyone "Where did you go to school?" Unfortunately, my husband and I were the first ones in line to answer. We answered with the universities we went to, everyone else stated their high school. They were very nice and allowed us to change our answer.
It made me realize in most of my circles of friends (except this one) college/university was the norm and not was the exception. Even though in other measures (politics, race, economics) those friend groups are diverse.
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I actually wanted to go to my husband's 10th reunion. I had a few friends who were going and my husband joked that the other people would be totally confused by our table. The smart kid, the bad boy and the popular girl would have all been sitting together (apparently they did not hang out with each other in high school). He wasn't as thrilled about going and conveniently forgot when it was happening.
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I didn't see all the comments. So, @Corralenoand @lmrich those stories are ridiculous. I had a fancy $$ wedding (just $$ not $$$) I don't think my wedding party spent $1000 to be a part of it. Two did travel for it but I had asked in advanced if they were OK with that (we found housing for them and fed them a bunch of the time).
In my defense it was a backyard wedding (not mine) and catered by a friend. (Friend charged us at what I feel must be a discounted rate, but it costs money to feed 400 people a fancy sit down meal.) I think it's disingenuous when these articles are like here's how to have a budget wedding and it's full of my friend/family member the photographer, caterer, florist, etc. provided the ... Not to mention the parents paid for other parts that's not included in what they spent. Even if you paid for it; it may not be market rate for the service you got.
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From the article, it didn't really specify whether the guests volunteered for this. So, after reading the article I'm not really against this. Like I said in the other wedding thread, in my culture people will always provide a big dinner for a wedding. It is customary for guests to give cash gifts from $100-$150 per person to attend(technically you don't have to and it can be more or less $$), all that money is to pay for the meal etc. and to help the couple get started.
Sharing good food with people you like is enjoyable for the guests and whoever is being celebrated.
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46 minutes ago, Fritz said:
It is not the shareholders choosing not to sell. The board members, not the actual shareholders, are making the decision to choose the "poison pill" rather than sell to Musk.
Yes, I know that. It also seems they are largely upset because they want more money. I'm just commenting that if Elon Musk does end up owning Twitter it is not because of some systemic injustice, If people cared so much about this one billionaire owning this one company they can individually or band together and become shareholders to prevent that from happening.
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1 hour ago, KSera said:
It’s like my McDonald’s buying my favorite health store example. Or like Kanye West buying The Welltrained Mind.
Also, one of Twitter's founders, Jack Dorsey, seems to like the idea. What Jack Dorsey Has Said About Elon Musk (newsweek.com) He was also the CEO of the company until late last year. So, I'm not sure the McDonalds buying a health food store is a good comparison.
If you own a company you don't have to it to the highest bidder you can choose to sell it to anyone or not to sell it at all. Twitter is just a publicly traded company so in that sense anyone is able to buy a lot of shares and request to have some say in the company. In that same sense shareholders (current owners of Twitter) don't have to sell their shares to Elon Musk if they are so offended at his desire to own it.
@Melissa Louise 's quote said it best "same toilet different brush".
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This was such a bizarre. There were so many things the people at the company messed up. I could see things escalating to just throwing the party despite the guy's objection, I can see a few employees teasing the guy about it. But to fire someone because they didn't enjoy their birthday party at work, WHAT?!
Employees teasing the guy about his panic attack already says to me this is a toxic workplace.
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I think before you get answers from the coworker who speaks his stronger language I would just be super direct. Meaning if I knew where the thing was I would just show him and perhaps tell him how it's organized and make sure he doesn't now misplace the item.
I've found that when dealing with people with whom I have a language barrier with it is better to do things in writing. Examples would be even after I've given verbal instructions, I'll send out an email with the same set of instructions (I make the email very boiler plate like something I could send also to another trainee). I've also carried around sticky notes and jotted down notes as I orally told them directions, then hand them the post-it note afterwards (or even pre-wrote the instruction post-it to hand to them after the verbal instructions).
On the other hand, this guy also needs to improve in this area and I would speak to an appropriate person about that like your boss. I've never sustained the writing all the things method. Usually it's something I just have to do for coworkers/customers visiting from an overseas office.
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Ignore this thread!
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Yes Please.