I need to find DD7 some new peers. She doesn't have many friends and her closest friend, who is also 7, is starting to head in this direction. I liked it better when they were 3. ;) So right now I would say "no" for my daughter, whose idea of makeup is getting face paint that makes her look like a cat. But I'm keeping a close eye on her friend, who has been given a TV to keep in her room and who watches program for older kids. She's been talking makeup and has been catty about what some of the other girls are wearing. Yes, at 7 years old. :glare:

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I put 3-4 hours. While I love reading, I think people function best when they have a balance of indoor/outdoor, exercise, interaction with friends and family, chores, group meals and meal prep, music and sports, etc. A few days here and there with way more reading that 3-4 hours is not a big deal to me, but if happened every day I think it would adversely impact other areas. If only we had more than 24 hours/day!

I don't have any data for you, but I wanted to make sure you know about long-term care insurance.

Yes! You're on a roll! Just remember ketostix stop working once you've been on keto for awhile. The kinds of ketones you make in the long run are not the kind measures by the ketostix. So if they stop working, it doesn't mean you're out of ketosis. If you're borderline and you go in and out, they might keep working for you. That must have been some bagel! Yeah, I'm never hungry anymore. It's quite easy for me to stay below 20g. That said, I am doing a road trip with some relatives from abroad and that's going to be harder. Because generally restaurant meat is not Halal, and I'm trying not to eat carbs, I'll pretty much have to stick to seafood. And if I'm in a place where I can't do that, it'll have to be carbs. I'll pack some stuff, but who knows. I hope I can maintain ketosis and my lack of hunger can carry me through rough spots.

Won't the viruses land on us when we open the basement door to toss down math books and sandwiches? While we do purchase supplies online, we still leave the house to try on denim jumpers and overalls, due to costly restocking fees. They should have thought this through better.

So the high price of college is actually driving the national economy, not hindering it? ;)

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I just got asked for an official report card for DD for an academic extracurricular activity. I'm not even sure what to do or what subjects to put. :confused1: I keep the homeschool affidavit for 3 years from the year we used it. The printout anyway. I still have it in my email too.

These two one after the other are comedy gold. :lol:

The analogy to herd immunity would be that people who drive their own cars are more protected on the road because other people have self-driving cars. A vaccine does not require a critical mass to confer protection, but the protection improves by suppressing outbreaks if a critical mass is reached. A Google car with accident avoidance may be safer than a regular car, but it's even safer if everyone has accident avoidance and the cars are telling each other about wrecks or speeders in the area. That data would be most reliable if it actually came emanated from the wrecked or speeding cars themselves. Is that enough to make everyone buy a Google car by law? IP for legally required products is a whole other issue, at least to me. :) I agree on the Obamacare, and it was upheld by the Supreme Court. I believe SB277 will be too, if they agree to hear it. There is the penalty option on Obamacare, so despite the fact that getting medical care may reduce the illnesses of people around you, you can pay to opt out. That would have been an interesting option in the vaccine bill.

Just adding another link from the MIT Technology Review to show how a purchaser of a self-driving car (in the future) will be safer if others have self-driving cars nearby as well. The autos will be communicating with each other regarding traffic, braking, speed, steering wheel position, etc.

Respectfully... Would you mind if I put this into the analogy I posted earlier for self-driving cars? I am certain that over time science will show that self-driving cars are safer than cars driven by people. Do you think if a family purchases a product designed to protect their family, and that product works better if everyone buys it but also works better than nothing if others don't follow suit, the purchaser the right to make everyone purchase the same product so they can be safer? Do you agree that some people are more vulnerable drivers (new drivers, the elderly, people who must drive when tired, people with distracting babies and toddlers) and therefore you must protect their safety by purchasing this new car? And rather than encouraging that purchase through education and marketing, it must be the law? I'm against someone saying, "Hey I bought this new car and it's safer than my old human-driven car, so that's good. But you know what would make me even safer? If everyone had to drive this car! Lots of people are in car accidents and this would help! I'm going to pass a law that everyone has to buy it!" There are so many modern products that people around me could buy that would make me safer. If everyone were required to own a cell phone I could have more assurance someone could call 911 if I were unconscious. If every building was required to have an automated external defibrillator, I would be safer. If every car was required to have a backup camera and cars without one were banned, I would be safer. And so on. To me there's a world of difference between government doing things to make people safer (traffic planning, crosswalks, auto safety standards) and legislatively making a person purchase (and inject!) a product from a particular company. I suppose one could try and draw an analogy to the time when CA made all drivers start carrying proof of insurance. Of course, people drive without insurance all the time. But vaccination is easier to enforce because almost all kids in K and 7th go to school. But the analogy falls apart when you realize that someone can decide to stop driving at any time if they don't want to purchase insurance. Once someone has been vaccine damaged, they can't go back. And you can't always tell ahead of time who that will happen to, which is why the responsibility to make that decision should be with the parents or guardians. Just saying again that I'm not implying my kids are vaccinated or unvaccinated. I like to keep my kids' medical info off of message boards.

I believe I read (but am not 100% certain) that the pro-bill people were running into the problem that an education is a guaranteed right for a child, and if there were absolutely no options but vaccination, a good case could be made that the bill violated that very basic right. Adding homeschooling and independent study removed a large part of that argument for opponents. They probably figured it's a small number of people, most of whom will eventually get vaccinated for programs, college, travel abroad, etc.

It's behind a paywall, but the Sac Bee had an article that the pharmaceutical industry has maintained it's distance from this specific measure, but donated about $2,000,000 to various (re-)election campaigns during the last election. I would say the most overt (in the chamber and news) lobbying has come from lobbyists hired by the CA Medical Association. I don't think it was that difficult to overcome though. The majority of CA citizens support the bill and there are precedents in other states.

Yeah, it's interesting to apply the philosophy to other areas. You must purchase and drive a driverless car because everyone is at risk when a human drives. Others have made sacrifices to buy these cars sold by a private company, and because they chose to be more safe, you must too. It's not fair to them that you might cause an accident with one of their driverless cars. Despite the fact that those driverless cars have excellent built-in accident avoidance systems, you are not allowed to partake of the street system you paid for through your taxes if you don't have one. You may, however, build your own streets. You have the time and money, so you have a choice.

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Thanks for this link. DS loves it! We finally are making him an AOPS account. He's been using BA fro awhile, but nothing online.

:grouphug: I'm not willing to share my kids' vax status publicly (which does not imply they are unvaxed) but I will say that I also suffered vaccine damage when I was a child and I still feel its effects today, in my 40s. Ask anyone who suffers if they would rather have their health, or financial compensation.

65-75 but he works mostly from home so there's zero commute time in addition to those hours, and when he does have off-site meetings he tends to schedule them in the middle of the day to avoid rush hour. Also, some of that time includes his own projects, not the company's.

I hadn't heard this. I'm not doubting you, just saying I haven't come across it nor had anyone tell me it happened. Is this common in certain districts? I'm assuming they're leaving kids who go to private schools on campuses alone.

It's not possible to dip your toes into this thread Charybdis. Head for Scyllla, you'll lose fewer men hours that way. :)

So the person selling hardware for the gay couple's bed is passively involved by selling the materials. The carpenter hired to build a custom bed is actively involved, even if they designed it and he or she is just building it. Where does the delivery guy who delivers and sets up the ready-made bed fall? And it usually takes two people to deliver a bed. What if one of them considers himself actively involved, and the other passively? See, this is too subjective. I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court just drew the line. You simply don't like where it was drawn and that's your right to be unhappy and to oppose the decision. If it makes you feel any better, they have made decisions that I was so strongly opposed to I didn't sleep well for years.

Yes, do the epsom salt bath. There are also Mg sprays for your skin, but they left my skin (and the kids' skin) feeling weird and chalky, which made me want to re-shower.

Sigh.... I like hanging out on the college board because you guys rock, but it does leave me in fear of what will happen in the next 7-11 years.