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  1. I never started because of the reasons you stated above. Honestly I never even thought about the student. I just didn't think I could teach material that I didn't find engaging. I do look at their curriculum to get ideas on books to read to my kids, because they have some really good book choices. I considered when I first started thinking about homeschooling (eldest was 4) so I looked into their preschool and kindergarten stuff. Since then I've been able to find or piece together stuff to be both engaging and rigorous.
  2. I hate goggles too. I'd rather not see than to use goggles. Also never was competitive in any swimming sports. I am imagining it'd take a truckload of spinach to make a cup of cooked spinach. My farm subscription is giving me way too much Butternut squash. I now have Butternut squash all over my kitchen floor, and coming out of my pantry. Definitely had a few occasions where instead of bringing wine or something I'm like can we just bring the hosts Butternut squash.
  3. I tell my people about my random fleeting thoughts and dreams. Again not all but I have told them.
  4. I feel like I can tell a few people everything. Not that I actually have told them everything just because no one needs/wants to hear it ALL. Nothing specific that I keep from any of them though.
  5. I find a few ground rules for when I have to confront people about stuff is: 1) Keep my grievances about things between him and me, no one else. 2) Address the issue immediately after the occurrence. Don't go to him tomorrow and say last month you did x,y,z. And when you do address him about it only talk about the current event. Basically the next time he does this let him do his thing, stay silent then after he completes his rant or is waiting some response from you say "I don't like being yelled at. Please don't yell at me" If he responds with inappropriate behavior just say "that's not an appropriate way to address me; it is unprofessional." For business stuff I tend to keep my feelihs out of it and strictly stick to whether the behavior is appropriate or not for the workplace.
  6. Takes a while for us to get primary care appointments, but we have an option to message the doctor with our concerns or call a nurse advice hotline. They can then judge the urgency of the issue and either give us an earlier appointment, have us go to urgent care or say you'll be fine in a few days (look for these signs to escalate, do these things to feel better, etc.). I like this because it has often saved us a trip to anywhere.
  7. If I feel like I'm in a safe space then I wear my emotions on the outside. There is no need to guess how I feel about a topic. People who tend to be my best friends are also the same way. It takes more work to be friends (for me) to be with someone who is just "calm" all the time even when internally they are upset. DH is actually "calm" all the time type person and it caused some strife early in our marriage.
  8. Yes to trying different foods. I don't know if you can do this with kidney issues but sometimes you can mix a little of the food she likes with the food she needs to eat.
  9. YES! This is why I'm not ready for the planning thread. I feel like (with both kids) we've been tooling about the same step for a while and it's easy for them, but they aren't ready for the next step. I don't even know what step they'll be on come fall.
  10. Let's just be clear the first verse says: I would be complex I would be cool They'd say I played the field before I found someone to commit to And that would be ok For me to do Every conquest I had made would make me more of a boss to you I'd be a fearless leader I'd be an alpha type When everyone believes ya What's that like? I guess you did miss the conversations where she has addressed how inappropriate it is that she is a successful business woman, song writer and artist, but all everyone focuses on are her break-ups and relationships. Considering break-ups are a very popular theme to write songs about and male artists also write about them and people don't bat an eye about who they are and judge their decision making skills over it. That's what makes your statement misogynistic.
  11. I watched the game I watched the outburst in real time. This is at the moment I have no idea what was said and given that here are my thoughts. Is Kelce wrong for yelling/raging at his coach? Maybe. If it's for not putting him out on the field where he thought he would have made a better play type stuff then, nope he shouldn't have done that. If it was about his coach yelling an inappropriate obscenity toward one of his teammates then I absolutely hope that my own son would have the galls to call out an authority figure for being disrespectful. Of course in the above linked article it seems like it was a wrongful outburst that happened in a stressful moment and both men apologized and made amends. Which is also OK because I don't expect people to be perfect 100% of the time and what I expect appropriate behavior is, is to apologize when we've done wrong. My indiscretions just don't get aired on national TV. I absolutely do not and will not tell my son to never yell at any authority figure because I can see things happening where I want my son and daughter to be the people who will stand up for what is right. I want my children to yell and fight back if they see others or themselves being harassed and treated poorly. There are some egregious things coaches have said and done to players, run of the mill physical abuse, requesting players to play while hurt, shouting inappropriate things to players, drugs etc. It would definitely take more than one random incident (where I have zero knowledge of the words said) for me to say he is an awful human being who is certain to beat his girlfriend/wife/dog/mom/grocer.
  12. At some point kids have to choose to want to learn. Yes not all kids would take advantage of homework time, but there are some that would and would benefit from it. It was much more often than not that I started to see kids try after getting help than those that just wasted time. That's garbage. I was a teen with 5 min of training to tutor and I knew better than to just give kids the answers.
  13. Ahh! Do we need to start the planning thread??
  14. I've never read this book, but your little girl is 2, likely it's going to be just fine. For little ones all the call-and-response activities are likely still helpful for her even if you do the entirety of the call-and-response. You: What is this? Toddler: ..... You: pause and wait to give them a chance to think and respond You: This is a cabbage. Or honestly just talk to them about stuff. I'll tell you I spent a lot of time trying to get my son to learn letters and sounds of letters. He was 4 and wouldn't say any of the letters (sound or name). I filled out the annual pediatrician questionnaire with "no my 4 year old doesn't know his letters". When I arrived at the pediatrician appointment 3 days later my son knew how to read. Sometimes they will pick up things and not tell you. In a lot of the baby/toddler book stuff you can often figure out what the activity is trying to do and substitute with whatever you've got lying about the house or one of their toys or something. Quite frankly you don't really need a book to tell you how to interact with your child just interact with them. Read to them, narrate your life to them, point out things to them, have fun with them, play with them, show them the things you know, they are wired to learn it doesn't take anything special.
  15. That's what I do to my lemon tree is keep them on the tree, hence I didn't know how to preserve lemons all this time.
  16. I tutored in homework club (where kids with failing grades did homework). I think it would benefit students if there was school/class time assigned to working on homework. So they have a space to ask questions when they get stuck.
  17. We are having a small super bowl snack party. DH is going to wrap something in bacon and smoking a rump roast. I'm going to make nacho cheese sauce (roux, cheddar, paprika, msg). Chips. Whatever topping things I can scrounge up around the house, guacamole, olives, jalapenos.
  18. Dragons in a Bag set in Brooklyn, male protagonist. I actually like to look at the Bravewriter Literature Singles for inspiration. I look at the age level then I hop over to Amazon to see the actual size of the book and "take a peek inside". They do have some contemporary books.
  19. Even if they don't know like @Terabithsaid above just get them a good math curricula. Seriously, we talk about those all the time on these boards some of them are fully scripted. Read the words in the teaching manual and it'll teach it to you as you teach it to the students. At the very least math and phonics/reading there are some really solid fully scripted stuff out there.
  20. This!!!!! Teachers are expected to do continuing ed on their own dime and time. If they made more, it might make sense, but they are not paid wages commiserate with their job. And double yes to survival mode! Teachers work way beyond their contracted hours AND the parents and school system still want more out of them. Ask me why I no longer teach. This is absolutely part of the problem. As an engineer my companies would send me to trainings and it counted as part of my work. They would occur during my "paid time" (I was an exempt employee so "paid time" isn't well defined), generally scheduled M-F 8am-4pm. The "classes" would be organized where all the learning happened during class time. The company would pay for the tuition and travel expenses (if it was far away). They want us to be better at what we do. Either work obligations were scheduled around the training or the trainings were scheduled around work obligations (depends on what makes sense).
  21. If we are talking about the general population it would be because some students don't have the luxury of going to another school for parts of their education. The issue is there is such a huge gap between the expectations of honors/AP vs. "regular" (a bazillion bad choices isn't fixing anything). Definitely as a teen that didn't get to do 5 APs I was bummed because I knew I was missing out.
  22. I will totally look that up!
  23. It's lemon season and I'm getting a lot of lemons from my farm subscription. I want to have these picked lemons to use the rest of the year. It seems that I can freeze them ... if I freeze them what are the pros and cons to freezing whole vs. in wedges. Also how to I use them later (do I just thaw them and then squeeze and zest like I might do with a fresh lemon).
  24. It's fine if you don't really have a stance on something (there are a lot of issues to have a stance about and most people don't have a stance on every single one of those issues). Sermons available is definitely helpful here. "We are very very much about following the teachings of Jesus as far as helping others, serving others, etc - pretty much exclusively." If this is pretty central and important to your church perhaps you should say exactly what you think the teachings of Jesus says is helping other, serving others, etc. I've met people who think telling people they are going to hell is helping, serving and loving people (not what I believe). Sometimes this can also be shown through the projects your church has taken a part in to serve others. I feel like the way to look at this isn't how many people we can bring through the door with what we believe, but how are we going to guide people to find a good church home for them.
  25. The flipside of that is why would someone who is good at math and is a "math specialist" want to be a teacher considering the other jobs they could have.
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