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Floradix Iron +Herbs has B6 and B12 in it. Great stuff.

Another vote for an iron check. FYI: Prenatal vitamins + iron pills = horrible constipation. H O R R I B L E! One of the worst experiences of your life. Worse than pushing out the baby. I recommend Floradix Iron Plus Herbs. It's a non-constipating liquid mineral supplement sold in health food stores and amazon.com

Your child needs to know you have a duty to disallow certain things because they are wrong. That is different than the message: Stop annoying me! And you need punishments. They need not be spanking. "Shame on you for spoiling your brother's chance to listen to music. That was selfish. I am not going to let you pick the music for a while." If she was screaming at home I'd take her to her room, and when she left it, I'd escort her back until she stayed in it quietly for a minute. Then I'd give her The Talk. If she started screaming again, back she'd go. If I was slack in the past, it might take weeks of painstaking consistency to prove I mean business. Once she is 100% sure she will be (mildly) punished and shamed, it won't be worth the cost. And don't get so angry with her. You don't want to get grey hairs too soon. You don't want to lose control of yourself in a fit of anger. I suspect she does things purposely to annoy you. If it doesn't make you cave, at least you felt her wrath. She's punishing you for closing your door, by kicking it - and for not putting on her favourite music, by screaming over it. If you don't let her get your frazzled, she won't be so spiteful. Pretend you aren't angry if necessary. Increasing your bond with your daughter will help you to not get so mad. When times are good, play with her. My four year old likes to pretend she's a fish and I catch her, season her (with baby powder) and eat her. She loves it. Enjoy your daughter.

Here is the weirdest reason to wean I have ever heard, "I lifted something really heavy and my milk turned back into blood." :huh:

No need to tell people the real reason you switched packs.

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Phone service is very good. A company called Choice has very reliable cell phones at great prices. You can get a landline with Innovative. I don't recommend Sprint or getting a phone from Radio Shack. You won't get internet access 100% of the time. Choice internet service works over 90% of the time for me. They just built another tower near my house. Before that, it worked less than half the time. I'm not sure if Skype is available in the USVI.

When I was researching Apples and Pears yesterday I found your blog. :)

My oldest couldn't spell at age 8 either. I didn't do much about it and he spells much better now. I have a feeling this 8 year old should be in a spelling program. She would have a hard time remembering these kinds of rules. She would have an even harder time applying them in compositions. She writes with ease and fluency. Most of the words are spelled wrong, and she's cool with it. She's easy and breezy. I could explain why nuggets has two gs and she will politely appear to be paying attention but be "checked out." That's how it was with WRTR.

Well no wonder the five sounds of "er" were over her head! Ha! She must have told me she wanted to do the notebook like her older sibling.

Yes, we fizzled out in section I of the Extended Ayres List. Never went past page two of the notebook. After WRTR we took a break from phonics and spelling instruction. We used Hooked on Phonics for 2nd grade reading. She'll turn 9 in a couple months.

My 8 year old's spelling makes sense phonetically and it is consistent. They is always thay. Nice is nise. Copying words repeatedly doesn't help. She can study, and write a word correctly one day, but the next day she's back to writing it her old way. Here is a list she wrote in her free-time yesterday: Fris Nugets ApplePiy berger Koce (Coke) iceScrem Spelling is her worst subject. Her reading and handwriting are fine. She comes up with fine content for compositions. She just can't spell. I'm going to continue to use studied dictation with her. I'm thinking of using Dictation Day By Day, instead of McGuffey's 2nd Primer. What else can I do for her? I am not up for anything too complicated or expensive. No All About Spelling or Spelling to Write and Read. The Writing Road to Reading gave us a great start in phonics, handwriting and reading, but she bombed the spelling tests, and we bored of it. (Sorry Ellie!) She could do Rod & Staff 2nd grade Spelling independently. She would even be able to read the directions herself. It's cheap and easy, but I'm not sure it would be enough. Apples and Pears looks very strong. Suggestions?

Eucerin Original healing soothing repair cream It's pricey, thick, greasy, and takes a while to rub in, but it works. A cheaper alternative that works almost as well is Vaseline. Don't bother with anything that doesn't feel greasy. And no hot showers. Warm showers are fine, but hot ones dry the skin.

LOL. Let's just agree to disagree.

I don't think she is, or has ever been depressed. I don't think she had/has any mental illness, and I don't think she's an alcoholic. I think she did a mediocre job of "taking care of business" when she was well, and when she got sick, things were even worse. Now she is too sick to do anything for herself. She can't talk much, or walk to the bathroom. She is very, very ill. That is why is in in ICU.

UPDATE: The sick lady is now in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. Her friend and I are taking turns watching the child. :( This friend and I are trying to see if a relative will take the child. The sick lady is reluctantly going along with that, but at the same time hoping to get better and go home with the child any time now. :( Don't quote me, pretty please.

I don't think she..

I told my mother about this ...

... I don't think she is mentally ill...

Please don't quote me because I want to delete my post later, for privacy reasons. I know someone who...

corn on the cob broccoli with cheese fried fish chicken, baked black beans apple slices veggie burgers (homemade burgers on store-bought healthy bread) salad (lettuce plus...) fruit salad veggie fajitas chicken sandwiches (grilled boneless chicken breast on store-bought healthy bread) roasted potatoes carrots stewed meat with veggies Triscuits with pizza sauce and cheese popcorn (homemade with salt and butter I could have come up with healthier meals, but I wanted to post normal meals that average kids will want to eat. I would use a small percentage of ingredients which are not whole foods. I would use white flour tortillas, and white flour for the fish's breading. I'd also use store-bought salad dressing, pizza sauce and ketchup.

I let my child look at the sentence/passage for as long as he wants before we start dictation. I read phrase by phrase. If my child says he can't spell a word, I tell him to leave a blank space for the word. If he misspells a word I erase it right away. Sometimes he corrects his own dictation with red pen. Sometimes I have him write each misspelled word four times. I get the passages from McGuffey's readers sometimes. The writing is already broken into manageable chunks, the words aren't too hard to spell, and it isn't "twaddle." Sometimes I have my 10 year old study 3 stanzas of a poem, but I only make him write one stanza. He doesn't know which stanza ahead of time. I tried very hard to get my oldest child to spell words based on their sound ala The Writing Road to Reading. It was not very successful, especially considering how time consuming and teacher intensive it was. In compositions he would put letters in the wrong order or have missing letters; "hwo" for who, "cy" for cry. I have had much better results with dictation. In compositions he rarely misspells words he has had in dictation.

Yes, I think they are lying. Plus I am really tired of food fads. Sorry you thought it was mean. I guess I shouldn't have posted it. I am 20 pounds overweight, myself. (Used to be 50 pounds overweight.)

No one's really. It was said that the pastor was 'power tripping; and 'stepping over healthy boundaries.' No one used the word abuse, but me.