Clarita
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My dad was actually a really good teacher. He just took me to an empty parking lot (the DMV parking lot on the weekend). He just had me go up and down the parking aisles until I felt comfortable handling the car. He would go over everything that I needed to do and how and then we would practice the manuver. When I felt ready he took me on the real road and told me to only go as fast as I was comfortable and at any time if I felt too nervous about the whole thing to stop the car and he will take over. I don't know how he stayed so calm.
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Is it horrible of me to already be dreading the "What elaborate Christmas thing are you doing?" mommy talks? It was one of the nice things about the pandemic, I didn't have to talk about/listen to all the elf on a shelf, hay for Jesus, advent presents, Santa visit, etc. things.
I want my holidays to be laid back and mostly about sharing a meal and connecting with family.
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I'm pretty happy with my Calphalon (contemporary stainless). Not sure if All Clad could change my life. Especially since Le Creuset changed my life and all soup/stew/chili is being made in that. Love my cast iron skillets for nearly everything else.
I feel like I only ever use the stainless steel for is eggs, boiling pasta, cheese sauce, popcorn and reheating food. Maybe someday curiousity will get to me and I'll try an All Clad. For now I'd rather have a enamel cast iron skillet for my collection of kitchenware.
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When I was working there were 3 people who smoked (out of 50 or so people). 2 who were probably 1 a day and were not proud of it and 1 smoked like a chimney. I think for the 2 who were 1 a day most people didn't really know, I sat near a door so I knew (I could smell it on them when they came back). Now that I am SAHM I rarely see people smoking.
I do know CA is harsh on smokers with it's rules. So I think that helps in reducing the number of people who might start and/or just hiding it from the non-smoking populous. I see a lot more smoking when I visit my family in Hong Kong. Seeing young people smoke cigarettes is surprising to me (surprising in a "that's different" way).
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8 hours ago, EKS said:8 hours ago, AEC said:
sure, but is single-variable calculus really the edge of understanding for someone with a BS in math?
Apparently it can be.
Maybe you had a bad experience with someone in particular or I'm wondering if a BS in Math didn't give enough actual usage of the Calculus (less about the actual knowledge of Calculus). I did find a lot of the Calculus topics that I struggled with in high school and early college made a lot more sense once I started using it to solve real world problems.
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9 hours ago, EKS said:
My experience with high school math teachers is that when they are working at the edge of their understanding, they are far less effective. But you're right--it is unlikely that we would be able to find enough master's level folk to teach these courses.
I took 2 more quarters of applied Calculus than most math majors would to get my BS in electrical engineering. Don't get me wrong a math major takes many more math classes but they get into more logic stuff and other mathematical topics that I have no place talking about. So not there yet but I would feel confident today teaching through Calculus to my kids (aside from the fact they are under 6 and totally not ready for it).
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I love my Taylor, but I second going into the guitar store and actually trying them out. Just how it feels in your arms and hands, and also how it sounds. There are a lot of decent guitars and brands out there and a lot comes down to preference.
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FWIW I love Alice Water's method for meal planning. I hated meal planning until I used her method. To sum it up it's more stock your pantry, learn some techniques of cooking (this would be what you'd get from her book or her masterclass), then shop for fresh foods that look good at the store or are in season or suits your fancy. Then you plan your meals from your grocery runs as many or as little days as you want.
It helps me do less processed foods, more simple everyday made from scratch recipes, and less stuck in a rut (at least every season brings a new food). However my family isn't picky about food. We don't have food allergies, although generally our meat and veggies are typically allergy safe (also pretty easy to cut out allergens if needed - I do have to do this for my BIL).
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37 minutes ago, gardenmom5 said:
I'm waiting to hear from dd if she wants it or not. Those kids have so much - stuff (though I did get them a Pooh, and piglet to go with their Whinny the pooh books.). . . . I don't want to buy "stuff". But, to me, a child sized piano is different. She's hoping to get back into piano lessons for herself. (she did viola growing up, and has a decent one.)
It's good that you are asking. Especially if dd wants to go back to piano lessons. With rules in place the kids can also just play with the adult piano. (It's what my kids did because we already had a piano.) Our family buys into the building musicality starting young as opposed to being able to play an instrument young. I'm more the Orff approach more than the Suzuki method of doing music with my kids. So I'm pretty satisfied with them being able to pound notes out on the piano and experiment with sound even though there is no way they could properly play it.
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We put our tree in the playroom (it's the formal living room of the house). The kids and I spend a lot of time in the playroom so it's a convienient place and we get a lot of viewing use out of it.
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6 hours ago, TheAttachedMama said:
Yeah, we have been playing games like that. But the thing is, my son always gets the facts right. We are just trying to encourage faster recall time.
Make it into a competition on who can get it first. If you don't have another child/friend (or similar ability child/friend) he can play against you. You can adjust your answering pace as needed. My kids really enjoy a silly game where everyone takes turns asking an addition question and the whole family is in a race to see who can answer first. (I did not come up with this game because I don't care how quickly my 3 and 5 year old can add they just came up with it on their own.)
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55 minutes ago, gardenmom5 said:
@clarita - the reason I was looking for the one in the first picture is my dd's neighbor had one and she wanted to get one. Btw: - the neighbor is a grad student in piano.
I think the Kawai one sounds better, but I don't know if that could be recording differences in the two videos. Oh the mini pianos are super cute and xylophones can sound great. There is just a lot of kid instruments out there that are terrible, and you can't judge by the price either. Both the Kawai and the Schoenhut sound fine.
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Here's a video about the Shoenhut Mini Grand Piano. You can hear how it sounds in this video because the piano itself works using a hammer that hits a metal bar rather than a hammer hitting a string in a real piano.
If you can I would hear the instruments you are considering. It'll be better for all if everyone actually enjoys the sound of the instrument. Personal preference for me is that the instrument is actually tuned. We gave away a toy xylophone because we couldn't stand how out of tune it was.
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I second Uggs. They are super warm and comfy. They do have other styles that don't scream THESE ARE UGGS. In case that matters to you.
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On 11/9/2021 at 12:39 PM, Kassia said:
What shoes would she wear? Dd doesn't wear heels - would flats be okay then with jeans or nice sandals in the summer?
What kind of tops would you recommend? Dd is tall and thin. She does most of her shopping at Old Navy and gets talls.
Are jeans really business casual?
What would be "nice jeans" - just jeans that aren't "distressed" - clean with no holes?
For her first day, would she show up in something dressier? She doesn't have slacks but has dresses.
FWIW my husband is a software engineer and he wears cargo shorts and a polo to work. (He did have one job force him to wear pants.)
Flats and sandals should be OK. Tennis shoes are probably fine, but take a look at the other employees.
For the first day to test out the waters a polo shirt (not white). After that you should know if a t-shirt is OK.
Jeans are business casual for me and my husband's work.
"Nice jeans" nothing with too many holes.
I hesitate to wear dress to work on the first day as a female engineer. I have had very bad experiences at work wearing feminine things. Mostly it comes down to not being respected as a person with a brain (once your coworkers know you it's not a problem). I also had some sexual harrasment issues but that usually happened with customer or coworkers from other countries. Honestly for me nice jeans with a polo would be great first day outfit. For the first day just make sure the jeans are not distressed or has holes. From seeing her coworkers she'll know to what extent her jeans can be distressed.
As for slacks if you really want sure get a pair of slacks. For me my slacks are used very infrequently interviews, first day of work, and I had about 3 occasions where a boss asked me to dress up for a customer meeting.
This is in CA though I know some other states are different in their definition of business casual.
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I learned a second and third instrument as an adult. I didn't find learning a new instrument as an adult any harder than when I was a child. As a child I learned piano. As an adult I learned Erhu (Chinese string instrument played somewhat like a cello), guitar, and handbells. All of the instruments are hobbies so I'm not great at any of them including piano. So if it's a career choice thing then that may be a different consideration.
I did not find string instruments particularly hard to learn as an adult. Yes I had to learn to bow and yes my finger tips hurt for a few months. My erhu teacher said that because of my knowledge of piano (music notes, how they work, and finger agility) that I was faster at picking up erhu than some of his other students.
Also splitting the focus between two instruments isn't like you don't learn anything for piano in violin class or vis versa. The instruments are different but there are some musical knowledge that's shared no matter what the instruments are. So, I also know a lot of kids who do multiple instruments typically both instruments won't be given up. If they find their passion in the second instrument they may "give up" on the first instrument to focus on the instrument of their passion, but also many people (especially musically talented) play multiple instruments very well.
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44 minutes ago, Not_a_Number said:
We've been doing something like unschooling for more than a month now (letting DD9 self-motivate for her work, anyway), and it's been really awesome. It has really removed all the power struggles.
I'm so glad it's been working well for you. I know before you took a break it was a troubling time for you.
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On 11/4/2021 at 6:13 PM, Rosie_0801 said:
Trying to be tricked into liking Shakespeare is one of my favourite hobbies, and to that end, I read ‘Hamlet: Globe to Globe,’ by Dominic Dromgoole a few months back. Now I think I love Hamlet even though I know I don't.
Try getting a bunch of friends together and act it out. That's how I started enjoying Shakespeare. It's up to you whether you want to rehearse. I just read ahead to my lines while we were acting it out.
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On 11/7/2021 at 3:53 PM, DawnM said:
We tried in the past and he would usually pee in the potty, although he did get distracted easily. But one time he pulled his pants down and pooped on the floor in the living room! We decided that wasn't going to work.
Sounds like he is on his way. We decided to potty train my little girl when she decided she could change her diapers by herself. It was not pretty.
The start of that was really just telling her to put her poops in the potty. In the begining this meant her taking herself and the soiled diaper into the bathroom and (with mommy's help although she didn't always ask for it) dump the poop into the toilet. Another wierd trick is to teach them to pull their knees up to their chest to encourage the poop to come out when they are on the potty. (It was actually the way I taught my son to poop when he was a newborn.)
If you are at your wits end speak to your pediatrician. (Since you have potty trained before.) Sometimes there are physical issues that are keeping children from being sucessful. Sometimes these can be minor issue like normal constipation (sometimes kids will get constipation if they are secretly working on potty training because they are holding or experimenting with their muscles).
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3 hours ago, UHP said:
It looks like a lot when it's all written out, but the wording is very careful and economical. The examples I've posted took me only five or six minutes to go through with my daughter. I think if I had tried to improvise an explanation and you were there to transcribe it, it would be longer in text, longer in time, and wouldn't have cured or preempted my daughter of any misunderstandings about time-rate-and-distance.
I have seen this type of instruction being successful with others. Just not myself. So when my own kids get confused over a math problem I actually stop talking. We just work with physical objects. In this case I would just set up some wind up toys or filling water buckets (I think I'd like to start rate as something/time as oppose to specifically distance/time). Once the kids gain some intuition over the concept then I teach the language associated with the concept. Language is so confusing, I mean above there's a discussion over whether it really should be feet per second vs. feet a second. Some rates are simply a word like Ampere (measurement of current) or frequency.
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To me both lessons should be covered in a math and/or science lesson. It's the job of the math or science lesson to explain the concept of rate, time and distance. A math lesson should never assume something has already been known unless it was already part of the sequence. At the elementary school level before a particular science lesson one should check that the kids know the math associated.
Mostly I have a problem with these lessons is it uses a lot of langauge to describe what is going on. It also seems mostly oral language for very young children. I know I would struggle with this lesson because my process of language is not top notch. It just takes me a few minutes to process the language into the actual problem I need to solve. So if I encountered this lesson as a child I would have thought rate, time and distance was a very complicated issue and confusing.
However, I know it's just me. I struggle with this teaching style of oral questions and immediate answers. I do much better when I'm given time to digest the material and/or explore with a following discussion.
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1 hour ago, UHP said:
The rest of the teacher's guide (on this topic) might give a sense of the pace of the program:
I thought this was a reading program?
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Not specific to death of a grandchild, but even listening to her grief can be so good for her. (Even if you don't know what to say) The parents are probably getting a lot of support, people listening and asking about them, because they are the parents. As a grandparent she may not be getting the same support and being a caregiver person she may not be asking for it. If you can it would also be really good for your friend if you offered to talk with her on a regular basis about her grief/feelings.
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My friends 3 year old was in the knew when he needed to pee but wouldn't stop playing to go in the potty for a long time. She ended up having to send him to preschool not knowing if he'd be sent home. She told him they would send him home and stuff if he had an accident at school. It's been 3 mohts now and he's never had an accident at school (he has had some in the early months at home and in his car seat). So even if he isn't fully potty trained at home; he can still know enough not to soil himself at school. (You have to make sure he knows when he needs to go).
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Need: the master TWTM house cleaners. It's not a big deal, but help!
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Essentially you have find a way to ventilate it. I had a fully enclosed shower that I paid someone else to spend 2hrs cleaning it and it sparkled but 1 week later grossness is back (that week we used the spray cleaner diligently and everything). We redid the bathroom so the shower area is vented and I removed the wall and replaced it with a glass sheet that is 1 foot down from the ceiling. Cleaning and keeping that shower clean is sooo much easier.