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You might like this demonstration of flights flying right now. You can see how many flights happen all the time and compare that to how often there's a problem. It's quite rare.

I've never taken Xanax, but I do know that if you're going to take it on a flight, you should try it first on the ground. Some people react badly to it and you don't want experiment the first time while on a plane. For turbulence, the one thing that really helps me is pushing my feet down firmly on the floor. It's just easier to take somehow. I guess it feels like I'm moving with the plane rather than being loosely jostled around.

I'm happy to hear it went so well.

Also, we have a shop in town that sells used kids clothes. Their new stuff is very expensive, though. It's a trade-in in which you can get credit for your old clothes. Now I keep our smaller clothes to give to my brother's family, but before he had kids it was great. Once you got in the game with a starter set, you could just keep trading up!

I'm another one who goes for quality over quantity. I also tend to buy one size too large. I buy neutral colors so DD can easily wear DS's hand-me-downs. For DD, I often buy dresses with wide bottoms and adjustable straps that can slowly convert to tops with jeans. They last years that way and can be worn over tops in the winter. I also then pass them on to my brother's family; they have kids younger than ours. I mostly buy Hanna Andersson, although I've noticed a reduction in the quality of their more trendy items, such as the Star Wars themed stuff. The classic items, however, last forever. We just gave my niece one of DD's old HA dresses. She got it at 18 months, when it was long on her, wore it as a normal dress, and used it as a top 1-2x/week and it was only a bit faded, with no holes, by the time it went to my niece.

Continuing to pray.

Sounds great! I'll do my best to get to one of the bay area ones, hopefully Oakland. Anything in the film that would controversial for children ages 6 and 10?

That was certainly the case for the Jets in the last quarter tonight. Perhaps your recollection was affected by your youth and family culture. Certainly there were many football charities and children's events in the 1970s and 1980s. Sandusky's Second Mile was formed in 1977 but let's not talk about that; it was much nicer when we didn't discuss the bad behavior of those in sports. :001_huh:

I'm going to go ahead and assume you don't follow the NFL very closely. ;) Here's a brief link to read about some of Ray Rice's anti-bullying campaign. Here's another link about him extending his event for children ages 7-14. And so on and so on. I think athletes always behaved badly at the same rate they do now. But with video cameras and cell phones everywhere, plus social media and gossip sites like TMZ, they are more easily exposed. That's a good thing and is true for other professions as well, such as police officers. In this age, I think a lot of people, not just celebrities, have been exposed in their bad behavior and have been surprised when their antics went viral.

Oh, I forgot to add another school I like to check out: Boston Latin School. (Look under the Academics tab for various subjects.) Here's some interesting history of the public school.

Great step. There was a possibility of her clamming up, being defensive, lying to save face, not agreeing there's a problem, etc and none of those things happened. I wonder if she'd be willing to allow you to sign up the kids for the online stuff. I know it's too much to ask you to teach them, but maybe if you spent an hour with her credit card you could enroll them in online stuff and they could try and go from there. I understand that fundamentally it's not your responsibility. It just feels like a logjam and I'm brainstorming about ways to break it.

I'm not a big fan of their reading lists either, but I do like to think of them as a good gauge of reading level. And I like their descriptions of what they're doing each year. It helps me think about my own goals. I've gone back in my thirties and forties and read books I even read in my twenties and realized all kinds of things I missed the first time. Past a certain level, I think a lot of good literature is that way. Maybe the best time to read it is in your nineties! I haven't read Streetcar so I can't speak to that. I think Lord of the Flies is fine, although I seem to be one of the few people who really didn't like it and felt the symbolism was ham-fisted. It's a good reference to know; people seem to use it all the time, especially on homeschooling discussion boards. Gatsby is one of those books I think can be read in each decade of life after the first one; like a lot of good literature, it seems to shift with life experience.

I'm not understanding the first part of your sentence. Did you mean "approach" instead? What was it that caught your eye?

Head Royce is a good private school in my area and I like to see what they do. (pdf)

I think the darker is more sophisticated but may be overwhelming in a small room that doesn't get much light. I like the accent wall idea.

The problem I see here is that the friend is going to be stuck in the middle of two parenting styles after school. She's not going to watch only our kids during those hours, but hers as well. Are you expecting her to have two different styles with the different groups of kids? Or one blended style for all? I'm wondering if you can come to an agreement, for her sake as well, in which she lets things go more toward your style when it's just your kids at home, and you let things go more her style when her kids join after school.

I was listening to the Read Aloud Revival podcast and they were talking about how people who didn't learn grammar but were good at writing generally read or were read to a lot as children. Just curious if that's true for you as well. I can think of several cases IRL in which this was also true. It's as if a lot of reading or listening to well-written materials can replace a lot of grammar work.

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Oh wow. :grouphug:

If she's religious, is it possible to speak or write a letter to a church leader for help? Perhaps they can approach her from a Biblical point of view.

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Don't try to go whole hog and change everything. Pick one topic that's not going well and ask for specific recommendations on the board for that topic. Explain what's not working well. If you want a classical education, note that when you ask for curricula recommendations. Focus on reading writing, and arithmetic. Don't worry about content subjects such as history or science and set them aside until you have found the right programs for the basics. Get some ideas, research curricula, and start something new on only that one topic. After 3-4 weeks, change the next subject to something that works better for you. And as others have said, just start where you are. Don't try to make up years of missed history in order or whatever. Or science. For math it is important to go in order.